Week of Jan. 23-27

Jan. 23/24
**Life Under Stalin & Stalin Quick-Write

QUICK-WRITE: Discuss a time in your life that you were accused of something that you did not do OR discuss a time when you were guilty by association (if you cannot think of a time you can talk about someone you know that was in this predicament or you can discuss something you have read)

Conclusion: Living Under Stalin’s Russia (Soviet Union)

Write a letter to your cousin who lives in Western Europe explaining, what your life is like living in the Soviet Union with Stalin as your leader.  (Use your other readings, notes and text if needed to write a detailed letter.) Focus on the years 1933-1938.  It should be a minimum of three paragraphs.

·        A Ukrainian peasant

·        A communist party member

·        A school teacher

·        A widowed Soviet (your husband was killed by NKVD)

·        Or any other individual that you can think of…(Free Choice)

1. Age of Uncertainty Notes
2. Person of the Decade Power Point Project
***Note use the following source with your partner to develop your powerpoint if you want to avoid having to email it back and forth or to avoid meeting:  http://www.google.com/ (google documents), or
3. Global Depression

Jan. 25/26
***Quiz on Lenin to Stalin (Ch. 14 sec. 2)
1. Continue Global Depression pp.470-475

Jan. 27/30
1. Fascism Quick-Write
2. Rise of Fascism
3. Duck Soup Activity
4. Mussolini & Hitler
5. Dictator Chart & Blank Dictator Chart

Standards/Objectives:

7.1. The Russian Revolution began as a result of oppressive rule, social inequalities, and ruthless treatment of peasants. Czar Nicholas II continued the czarist firm rule, but began a program to build Russian Industries.

7.2. Although there was industrial progress in Russia, working conditions and exploited workers looked toward revolutionary movements.

7.3. Between 1904 and 1917, the Czar and Russia faced a series of crises that revealed the czar’s weakness and paved the way for revolution.

7.4. After returning from exile, Lenin and the Bolsheviks gained control of Russia and began to rebuild a new nation.

7.5. After the death of Lenin, Joseph Stalin seized control and transformed the Soviet Union into a totalitarian state.

7.6. Up to WWI, society believed the Enlightenment ideals that progress should continue and reason would prevail.  The horrors of WWI changed the way people viewed the world through literature, art and intellectual life.

7.7. Also, the horrors of WWI lead to disillusionment in the arts.

7.8. WWI impacted the politics and economies of nations in Europe and in America.

7.9. The economic crisis of the Great Depression led to the loss of democracy in some countries.  In Germany, people turned to strong ruler, Adolf Hitler, to try to solve their economic problems.

7.10. Social unrest and disappointment in the Treaty of Versailles led to the rise of Mussolini and Fascism in Italy.

7.11. Dictators took control of other European countries; only in nations with strong democratic traditions (Britain, France, and the Scandinavian countries) did democracy survive.

7.12. Fascism/Nazism and Communism are two different totalitarian political systems with some common characteristics.