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Weekly Overview:
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Unit Description:
Chapter 14 is about the Years of Crisis between 1919-1939. We will explore and analyze the Enlightenment of the 20th century, the Great Depression, and the rise of totalitarianism.
Essential Questions:
Can students explain how art, literature, and intellectual thought reflected changes brought on by WWI?
Can students describe the political, social, and economic conditions leading to the rise of totalitarianism in the SU, Germ., Italy, Japan, and Spain?
Can students describe the causes of WWII?
Resources/Materials:
Guaranteed curriculum, textbook, guided reading worksheets.
Standards/Benchmarks/GLEs:
H-1C-H7, H-1c-H11, “: GLE’S 21,31,32 |
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Objectives: |
Trace the events that led to the financial collapse of the US economy. Analyze the effects of the Great Depression. |
Continue with the objectives from Thurs. and the depression. |
Students will use library skills to research a topic for a WWII project. Research will include multiple sources. |
Students will use library skills to research a topic for a WWII project. Research will include multiple sources. |
Describe Mussolini's Fascist state in Italy. Begin discussion on the rise of Hitler and the Nazi's. |
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Student Learning Activities:
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We will discuss Section 2--The Global Depression. |
We will compare and contrast through brainstorming how the depression of the '30s and todays financial crisis are similar. |
Students will be goijng to the library to research WWII project. |
Students will continue research on WWII project. |
Begin discussion on totalitarian dictatorships and the rise of facism and nazism. |
