Hey Folks!

This week we finish Topic 7 Renaissance and Reformation. We will have a quiz on Tuesday, and then begin Topic 8 Crisis and Absolutism.

Have a great week!

Essential Question:

What are the differences, if any, between a military dictatorship and a king ruling by “divine right”?

Learning Objectives

Topic 7.4 Reformation Ideas Spread

Objectives: Describe the new ideas that Protestant sects embraced. Understand why England formed a new church. Analyze how the Catholic Church reformed itself. Explain why many groups faced persecution

during the Reformation.

Topic 8.1 Europe in Crisis: The Wars of Religion

Objectives: Understand the causes for why religious and political conflicts erupted between Protestants and Catholics in many European nations. Compare and contrast why King Philip II championed Catholic causes throughout his lands, while England became the leader of Protestant nations of Europe. Describe how England defeated Spain at sea.

Topic 8.2 Social Crises, War, and Revolution

Objects: Understand why social, economic, and religious conflicts challenged the established political order throughout Europe. Understand how population decline in Europe and the hysteria of witchcraft trials contributed to economic and social problems in seventeenth-century Europe. Describe how Europeans responded to economic and social problems.

This Week’s Assignments

1. Topic 7.4 Reformation Ideas Spread
2. Topic 7 Spice Chart
3. Topic 7 Quiz
4. Topic 8.1 Europe in Crisis: The Wars of Religion
5. Topic 8.2 Social Crises, War, and Revolution

Last Week’s Assignments

1. Topic 7.3 The Protestant Reformation
2. Topic 7.4 Reformation Ideas Spread

Hey Folks!

This week we continue with Topic 14 WWII and talk about the Holocaust.

Have a great week!

Essential Question:

What are some of the factors that possibly led to inaction by the United States in dealing with the Holocaust while it was happening?

Learning Objectives

Topic 14.7 The Holocaust

Objectives: Trace the roots and progress of Hitler’s campaign against the Jews. Explain the goals of Hitler’s “final solution” and the nature of Nazi death camps. Examine how the United States responded to the Holocaust.

This Week’s Assignments

1. Topic 14.7 The Holocaust
2. Schindler’s List Viewing Questions

Last Week’s Assignments

1. Topic 14.4 A War on Two Fronts
2. Topic 14.5 The Home Front

Hey Folks!

This week we continue to talk about arguments and discourse and go over the “Commandments of Philosophy.”

Have a great week!

Essential Question

What does it mean to be a ‘good philosopher?”

Learning Objectives

Objectives: Develop a better sense of how we employ reasons to defend our beliefs.

Explain the important characteristics of academic discourse for a philosopher.

This Week’s Assignments

1. What’s Your Reason?
2. Being a (Nice) Philosopher

Last Week’s Assignments

1. What’s Your Philosophy?
2. Claims and Premises

Hey Folks!

This week we will do a News Review and Analysis for Media Journals on Tuesday. On Thursday we update Topic posts and discuss our individual topics.

Have a great week!

Essential Question

What are the subjective and objective factors that go into the transmission of world events to the public?

This Week’s Assignments

1. Media Journal
2. Topic Posts

Last Week’s Assignments

1. Media Journal
2. Topic Posts

Hey Folks!

This week we continue with Topic 7 Renaissance and Reformation.

Have a great week!

Essential Question:

What factors set the stage for the Protestant Reformation?

Learning Objectives

This Week’s Assignments

1. Topic 7.3 The Protestant Reformation
2. Topic 7.4 Reformation Ideas Spread

Last Week’s Assignments

1. Topic 7.1 The Italian Renaissance
2. Machiavelli Analysis Assignment
3. Topic 7.2 The Renaissance in Northern Europe

Hey Folks! This week we will do a News Review and Analysis for Media Journals on Tuesday. On Thursday we update Topic posts and discuss our individual topics.

Have a great week!

Essential Question

What are the subjective and objective factors that go into the transmission of world events to the public?

This Week’s Assignments

1. Media Journal
2. Topic Posts

Last Week’s Assignments

1. Media Journal
2. Topic Posts

Hey Folks!

Welcome back for Semester 2!!

This week we will begin Topic 14 World War II.

Have a great week!

Essential Question:

What were the reasons the allied countries chose to engage in a policy of appeasement?

Learning Objectives

Topic 14.1 Rise of Aggressive Dictators

Objectives: Explain the rise of dictatorships in the Soviet Union, Italy, Germany, and Japan in the 1930’s. Summarize the acts of aggression by Italy, Germany, and Japan. Analyze the responses of Britain, France, and the US to the aggressive regimes.

Topic 14.2 America Debates Involvement

Objectives: Understand the course of the early years of WWII in Europe. Describe FDR’s foreign policy in the mid-1930’s and the great debate between interventionists and isolationists. Explain how the US became more involved in the conflict.

Topic 14.3 The United States Enters World War II

Objectives: Explain why Japan decided to attack Pearl Harbor, and describe the attack itself. Outline how the United States mobilized for war after the attack on Pearl Harbor. Summarize the course of the war in the Pacific through the summer of 1942.

This Week’s Assignments

1. Topic 14.1 Rise of Aggressive Dictators
2. Topic 14.2 America Debates Involvement
3. Topic 14.3 The United States Enters World War II
4. Pearl Harbor Primary Source Activity

Hey Folks!

Welcome back for Semester 2!

This week we will begin Topic 7 Renaissance and Reformation.  

Have a great week!

Essential Question:

How did the printing revolution reshape European society?

Learning Objectives

Topic 7.1 The Italian Renaissance

Objectives: Describe the characteristics of the Renaissance and understand why it began in Italy. Identify Renaissance artists and explain how new ideas affected the arts of the period. Understand how writers of the time addressed Renaissance themes. Explain the impact of the Renaissance.

Topic 7.2 The Renaissance in Northern Europe

Objectives: Describe the themes that northern European artists, humanists, and writers explored. Explain how the printing revolution shaped European society.

This Week’s Assignments

1. Camino de Santiago and Pilgrimages of the Middle Ages
2. Topic 7.1 The Italian Renaissance
3. Machiavelli Activity
4. Topic 7.2 The Renaissance in Northern Europe

Hey Folks! This week we will do a News Review and Analysis for Media Journals on Tuesday. On Thursday we update Topic posts and discuss our individual topics.

Have a great week!

Essential Question

What are the subjective and objective factors that go into the transmission of world events to the public?

This Week’s Assignments

1. Media Journal
2. Topic Posts

Last Week’s Assignments

1. Media Journal
2. Topic Posts

Hey Folks!

This week we will finish Topic 6 Europe in the Middle Ages and have a quiz on Thursday.

Have a great week!

Essential Question:

Can a religious leader also be an effective military leader?

Learning Objectives

Topic 6.3 Culture of the High Middle Ages

Objectives: Explain how technological innovations made Gothic cathedrals possible, while an intellectual revival led to the formation of universities. Explain the importance of medieval university students applying scholasticism to the study of theology. Discuss why troubadour poetry and the heroic epic poem were popular forms of vernacular literature in the twelfth century.

Topic 6.4 The Late Middle Ages

Objectives: Explain how the Black Death had disastrous social and economic effects, spreading throughout Europe during the mid-fourteenth century. Describe how the Great Schism of the Catholic Church caused great political conflict and left Europe divided for four decades. Cite evidence as to why England and France waged the long, violent Hundred Years’ War.  Analyze the reasons why France, England, and Spain emerged as new monarchies by the late 1400s.

This Week’s Assignments

1. Topic 6.3 Culture of the High Middle Ages
2. Topic 6.4 The Late Middle Ages
3. Topic 6 Quiz
4. Final

Last Week’s Assignments

1. Topic 6.1 Peasants, Trade, and Cities
2. Topic 6.2 Medieval Christianity

Hey Folks!

This week we will finish Topic 13 The Great Depression and the New Deal. We will also be taking a quiz on Thursday.

Have a great week!

Essential Question:

What is the legacy of the Great Depression?

Learning Objectives

Topic 13.4 The New Deal Expands

Objectives: Analyze the ways that the New Deal promoted social and economic reform and its long-term effects. Explain how New Deal legislation affected the growth of organized labor. Evaluate Roosevelt’s plan to increase the number of US Supreme Court justices on the course of the New Deal.

Topic 13.5 Effects of the New Deal

Objectives: Identify the social and political contributions of Eleanor Roosevelt, Frances Perkins, and other women involved in New Deal programs. Explain how the New Deal expanded economic opportunities for racial and ethnic minorities. Analyze how the New Deal changed the shape of American party politics and lessened ethnic and social divisions with American society. Evaluate the effect of the New Deal on the historical role of the federal government and FDR on the presidency.

Topic 13.6 Culture During the Depression

Objectives: Trace the growth of radio and the movies in the 1930’s and how both mediums reflected the characteristics and issues of their time. Explain the relationship between the New Deal and the arts. Describe the major themes of literature of the Depression era.

This Week’s Assignments

1. Topic 13.4 The New Deal Expands
2. Topic 13.5 Effects of the New Deal
3. Topic 13.6 Culture During the Depression
4. Topic 13 Quiz

Last Week’s Assignments

1. Topic 13.1 Causes of The Depression
2. Topic 13.2 Americans Suffer
3. Topic 13.3 Two Presidents Respond

Hey Folks!

This week, Ms. Blinne is teaching about disorders and syndromes. You will also be given time to work on your end of the semester projects.  

Have a great week!

Learning Objectives

Objectives: Discuss the impact of different mood disorders. Explain the risk factors of bipolar. Identify the causes of schizophrenia. Discuss the three different personality disorder clusters. Explain the symptoms and causes of Dissociative Disorders.

This Week’s Assignments

1. Topic 5.4 Mood Related Disorders and Schizophrenia
2. Topic 5.5 Personality and Dis-associative Disorders

Last Week’s Assignments

1. Topic 5.3 Anxiety Disorder and OCD
2. Topic 5.2 Aggression

Hey Folks!

This week we will begin Topic 6 Europe in the Middle Ages.

Have a great week!

Essential Question:

Can a religious leader also be an effective military leader?

Learning Objectives

Topic 6.1 Peasants, Trade, and Cities

Objectives: Describe the process of how new farming practices supported population growth, and the revival of trade led to a money-based economy and the rise of cities. Describe life under the manorial system of the Middle Ages in which serfs worked the lands of lords. Explain how the revival of trade during the High Middle Ages gave rise to a money economy and the growth of cities, which became centers for manufacturing and trade.

Topic 6.2 Medieval Christianity

Objectives: Describe how, under strong leadership, the Catholic Church reached the height of its political power and became a dominant and forceful presence in medieval society. Explain how new monastic orders emerged as religious enthusiasm spread through Europe. Describe the reasons why ordinary people observed the Church’s sacraments, venerated saints, and took pilgrimages to holy shrines.

Topic 6.3 Culture of the High Middle Ages

Objectives: Explain how technological innovations made Gothic cathedrals possible, while an intellectual revival led to the formation of universities. Explain the importance of medieval university students applying scholasticism to the study of theology. Discuss why troubadour poetry and the heroic epic poem were popular forms of vernacular literature in the twelfth century.

This Week’s Assignments

1. Topic 6.1 Peasants, Trade, and Cities
2. Topic 6.2 Medieval Christianity
3. Topic 6.3 Culture of the High Middle Ages

Last Week’s Assignments

1. Topic 5.3 The Growth of the European Kingdoms
2. Topic 5.4 Byzantine Empire and Crusades
3. Topic 5 Activity
4. Topic 5 Quiz

Hey Folks!

This week we will discuss and begin working on our final project for the semester.

Have a great week!

Essential Question:

How does one put together a budget that aligns with a person’s needs and wants.

Learning Objectives

Identify the various types of income and expenses. Explain the purpose of identifying budget line items as fixed or variable. Construct a household budget.

This Week’s Assignments

1. End of Semester Budget Final Project
2. Rent, Utilities, and Insurance

Last Week’s Assignments

1. Investment Assignment
2. Taxes Assignment