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GLOBAL HISTORY ASSIGNMENTS 2005-06 GLOBAL HISTORY SYLLABUS 2005 - 06 READINGS: 1940s; 1950s 1960s 1970s COLD WAR READINGS BRIEF HISTORY OF AMERICA Map of Korea: http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/middle_east_and_asia/korean_peninsula.gif Genocide in German South West Africa: http://www.ppu.org.uk/genocide/g_namibia.html
Strategies for Preparing for and Taking Tests
1. DUE: Friday, Sept 16, Answeres to the 5 questions given out in class regarding the Bily Joel song: We didn't Cause the Fire. 2. DUE: Second week of school: Updated version of "We didn't Cause the Fire." 3. Due October 11. JFK bias essay. 4. Due October 11. Maps (world and individual) 5. SIGN UP FOR NEWSPAPER REPORT. Newspaper Issues Report 6. Yalta Rubric 8. Yalta notes: http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/cold.war/episodes/01/script.html. Begin about 2/3 of the way down the page with these words: 'Yalta in the Crimea. Churchill wanted the next Big Three meeting to be held in the West, but Stalin insisted on a Soviet meeting place." Read to the end. 9. DUE MONDAY NOV 28 Test on the 1950s. MAKE UP THURSDAY, DEC 1, AT 12:00 P.M. ROOM 309. 10. DUE MONDAY Nov 28: Propaganda poster. 11. DUE MONDAY, DEC 5: SPEECH FOR JOHN F. KENNEDY TO ADDRESS THE NATION ABOUT THE CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS. 12. DUE TUESDAY, JAN 10. THE CULTURAL REVOLUTION ASSIGNMENT. You need to read CHAPTER TWO OF LITTLE RED BOOK AND VOCABULARY. Mao's Little Red Book of Quotations in its entirety is located at: http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/works/red-book/ and http://art-bin.com/art/omaotoc.html 13. DUE MONDAY JAN 16. PROTEST POSTER OR POLITICAL CARTOON ASSIGNMENT. If you decide to do the
political cartoon, you might want to revisit this site. http://memory.loc.gov/learn/features/political_cartoon/model.html.
Note: if
you have difficulty accessing this webpage, email me and I will forward my notes
to you. 14. QUEST FOR FROGITE - SELF EVALUATION Submit your self-evaluation by Monday, Jan 30, 2006
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