Spring Break

Homework:
1) Current event: Iran due April 3 (link is missing background reading)
2) Read Farmer 270-302, take notes on issue boxes and list/define key terms

HW
Skim Chapter 5 of Causes, Practices and Effects of War.  Use the text to help you answer questions 1-3 for your your oral test.

Class tomorrow will meet in the language lab downstairs (71E).

Other Dates:
3/10/12 - Paper Abstracts & Thesis due electronically by midnight
3/15/12 - Paper 2 Rough Draft due in class
3/19/12 - Oral Test WWII (one 3x5 card allowed, have typed questions ready to turn in if needed)
3/21/12 - Paper 2 Due

3/1/12

Begin Working on your Paper

For Monday 3/5
Finish Reading/Preparing notes for "Hitler's Willing Executioners"
Read Farmer 245-255 take notes/key terms

2/24/12

Quiz:  WW II Causes and Events in the European Theatre

• Farmer Ch. 5-rise of Nazism
• Failure of Collective Security/Appeasement (packet)
• Events in Europe (packet)
• Zinn Reading

Quiz will be short answer/fill in.  No essay.

For 2/28 Tuesday read Wison Ward article.

For 3/1  Thursday finish pre-write Fog of War and Private Ryan

2/14/12

Homework:
1) Read Appeasement Packet and write a few bullet points about what the international implications are for each event/item.
2) Select 2-3 quotes from the Zinn reading that challenge the notion of WW II as a good war.  It may be helpful to choose quotes that can be compared to Saving Private Ryan
3) Read the packet on War in the Pacific for class on Thursday.  Take notes and make a list of key terms as needed.

February 8, 2012

Homework
1) Syria Current Event for class Wed. 2/8/12
2) Howard Zinn Reading: First Person Accounnts of WWII for class Fri: 2/10, prepare discussion questions informally and try to make connections to the reading

fyi: Vanguard (Nigerian News Source): Russia's interest in Syria

February 6,2012

Don't forget Farmer reading due Monday 2/6

If you want to get ahead...next reading assignment due Feb 10.
Voices of a People's History by Howard Zinn ch16