5.2

1. Handed out new conversion chart (changed from last quarter)
2. Took notebooks to grade (finally) for Unit 4
3. Began 5.2: Home Front (9)
• With island, brainstorm things that you remembered from WWI home front
• Using pages 598-604 in your textbook to skim and review WWI home front with island
• Knowing that the president was FDR & what the US has been through in the Great Depression, predict how WWII home front would be the same and different than WWI 
• This was all verbal.. no writing necessary 
• Learning Activity: Read pages 793-799 (chapt. 24 sect 4) in your textbook & then create a 10 paneled comic that shows the terms on the rubric (listed below)

1. Victory Gardens
2. Rationing
3. War Bonds
4. Office of War Information
5. Hollywood & the OWI
6. Barnette Ruling
7. Executive Order 9066
8. Korematsu v. United States
9. War Production Board
10. Government spending & taxes

We will work on the product tomorrow.

All nuclear explosions

Here is the video I was talking about today in class.... its spooky if you can take all 9 minutes of it!

5.1 & Project

Finished 5.1 Learning Activity B: World War II in the Pacific notes (place bolded words on the blank spots of the detailed timeline sheet)

Assigned Battles for the Project.
Students took notes from book about specific battle that was assigned to them.
Used page 755 if Pearl Harbor
Used pages 770-777 to find th battle if from the European Thearter
Used pages 788-792 to find the battle if from the Pacific Theater

Info about Project

Work days: This Thurs: 1/2 day with internet to get source

Next Tuesday, Thursday & Friday: Full blocks in the Library with books & computer

Monday Nov. 12th Project due

Continue WWII

5.1:
   Finished up work on video from Friday

Learning Activity B:

• Fill out a detailed timeline showing the name, date and result of each of the battles discussed in class from these notes (Europe)
• We will complete the Pacific tomorrow

Begin World War II

5.1: World War II

Learning Activity A:
    Each student received a copy of notes and during the presentation added 2 extra pieces of information to each slide

At the end of the presentation, a video was watched.  On a separate piece of paper they:

1. Listed all the items from the notes that was referenced in the video in some way
2. Wrote a paragraph or so about what they and their island decided the point of the "cliff scenes" and the music was in the video (this is actually investigating the narrative)

Took Unit 4 Exam

If you missed this exam, you need to speak with Mr. McDonald right away to schedule a time to take it.

I am available most mornings before school (730-825) and afterschool (330-415ish)

Review

~45 minutes to make sure the following are completed:

• 4.1
• 4.2
• 4.3
• Notebook in order

Reviewed together as a class for Great Depression Exam tomorrow 

4.3 due tomorrow as well