Mrs. Madrigal’s Social Studies Blog

Below are the websites you will be visiting today in the computer lab. Make sure you follow the directions in the handout and answer each question completely. If you need more room to write, you can use the back of the handout for more space. Today is a day for you to explore and learn more about this organization that is functioning and alive today, so take your time to learn more!

1. UNICEF – www.unicef.org

2. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations – www.fao.org

3. World Health Organization – www.who.int/en/

Part II

1. Amnesty International – www.amnesty.org

2. Save Darfur – www.savedarfur.org

If you are done early, research Holocaust Remembrance Day. The day in which the Holocaust is remembered is coming soon, how are people remembering the day? What is the history of Holocaust Remembrance Day?

Today you will be working on your Holocaust Photo Project. Specifically, your objective is to become familiar with the pictures in the archives and to choose at least 3-4 that you like. Final selection of your photo will be checked on Friday. You should open up a word document and cut and paste any information you want to save, (picture and information following picture).

You need to make sure you select your historical photo carefully, meaning that you need to look at whether the historical photo has a common theme and that its accompanied with information of who, what, when where, and why in order to help with the final writing assignment. (Some photos will not have information so you will want to avoid them)

Below is the directions from the handout. Make sure you read over the rubric carefully in order to get full points. As you browse remember that these are real individuals and you are honoring them by telling their story.

Copy and Paste Link to Begin: (remember to Click on “Search Online Catalog” & don’t forget the requirements for the photo)

http://www.ushmm.org/research/collections/photo/

If you have problems find the search engine, here’s the direct link to the search engine:

http://digitalassets.ushmm.org/photoarchives/

Handout:

Holocaust Photo Project

Directions:

1. Choose a photo from the archives: All historical photos will be researched by the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. More specifically, you will be looking through the museum’s photo archives. Here’s a quick link to the photo archive (A link to the website can also be found on the class website. It’s easier if you just cut and paste it from the class website.)

http://www.ushmm.org/research/collections/photo/

Click on “Search Online Catalog”

The photograph needs to be before the Nazi occupation of the country so when you find the picture check the country and when the Nazis occupied the territory. The following are a list of countries and the years that the Nazis gained power.

Here is a list of some countries where your pictures might be from:

Germany 1933, Poland 1939, Austria 1938, Hungary 1940, Czechoslovakia 1938, Denmark 1940, Netherlands 1939

**Helpful search words** à birthdays, weddings, school (etc)

You will select a photo from the archives that has similar characteristics to one of your own personal photos. Both photos need to have similarities in theme/appearance. As you look through the various archive photos, try to find a photo that feels “just right” and that can be compared to one of your own personal photographs.

2. Gathering research of your photo: Answer the Holocaust Photo Analysis Sheet, and make sure you save any information from the photograph that will help you with your essay.

3. Essay Prompt and Project: In the final part of your writing, you will answer the following questions:

Before the war, how were the lives of Jews “normal”? Explain how Jewish life can be viewed as ordinary and how their lives were changed after Nazi occupation.

Essay Requirements: 1 – 1.5 page, 12 font, Times Roman, Double Spaced (See Rubric for more specifics)

Photograph Arrangement – Your photograph and the one you researched should be neatly organized on a white sheet of paper. Both photographs need to fit in one page.

(All non-digitial photographs will be returned!!)

Important Information

Points: 20 points test/quiz – 10 pts homework

Due Dates: Selection of Historical Photo: Friday, April 2^nd

Photo Analysis Sheet: Monday, April 5^th

Project Due: Wednesday, April 7^th

(If you are reading this you are ready to begin your last day in the computer lab. Make sure you check your neighbor to see if he/she is on the right page.)

In your time in the computer lab today, you will be exploring another face of the Industrial Revolution, which was the rise of New Imperialism. The period is known as “New” Imperialism to distinguish it from the earlier period of Imperialism during which Columbus led the way to the conquest of North and South America.

Answer the following questions below on a separate sheet of paper titled: Computer Lab Day 2. Make sure you copy the question and make sure that you finish the work from Computer Lab Day 1.

(Before you start to work, make sure you open a new window – file new window- so that you know the directions and what you are working on at all times!)

(Copy and paste the URL below for Digital Library – or just google the website like you did yesterday):

http://notebook.lausd.net/portal/page?_pageid=33,245998&_dad=ptl&_schema=PTL_EP

Britannica Online or Facts on File:

1. For Briannica Online,  What is the elementary and middle school definition of Imperialism?

2. What was the East India Company? (What was its purpose, Who owned it, Where did it have the most power)

3. What was the Taiping Rebellion and the Boxer Uprising and why was it important to the Chinese?

4. How is Matthew Perry connected to Japanese history? Explain

5.  On Britannica Online, search for “British Empire” and click on the high school article. On the top right corner you should see : “Content related to this topic” Explain what the images/maps reveal about the British Empire.

Extra Credit Opportunity: Due Friday February 12th

(if you are done early, begin working on the extra credit which will be reviewed on Wednesday)

Assignment: Select an invention of the Industrial Revolution, if can be one from the list from Day 1 of the Computer Lab or you can explore other inventions during the period. You have an option of:

1. Creating an print advertisement for the invention (using a specific persuasive technique and targeted to a specific audience).

2. A 3D hand-made model of the invention.

A brief presentation of the project will take place on Friday.

Good luck!

This is a reminder for tomorrow’s midterm. You will be tested on the Enlightenment and last chapter’s Greek philosophers. You will also turn in the American Revolution Outline and Study Guide. Below are the directions for the assignments. Good luck studying!

StudyGuide for Midterm

Directions: Use the notes we have taken in class to help you study for tomorrow’s midterm. You should be able to review notes from journals, gallery walk, short video, Cornell Notes, terms/people/places homework assignment and of course, the textbook. Along with those materials, the questions below will help you review. On a separate sheet of paper,

1. What is a philosophe? Who are the English philosophers and philosophes?

2. What did John Locke believe in? Did he support a democracy (constitutional government)?

3. What is Montesquieu’s idea? How have they influenced our own government?

4. What is a “Social Contract”? (hint: general will = people agree/general consensus)

5. Who was Mary Wollstonecraft fighting for? Why? What did she want?

6. Who were the revolutionary leaders of Latin America? Where are they from and who were they fighting?

7. Who is Voltaire? What did he believe in and why? Is our government influenced by Voltaire? How?

8. How does the American Revolution relate to the ideas of Rousseau?

9. Why did Toussaint L’Overture want freedom and equality (which European revolution inspired him)? Who was he fighting against?

10. What did Hobbes believe was the ideal government? Where did he write his ideas?

** Be sure to review the ideas of the Greek philosophers, there were be a few questions on the exam **

American Revolution Outline-Directions use the format below to create an outline on the American Revolution handout.

I. American Colonies

How was life in the colonies before the revolution (Give a least three facts)

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II. Political Reasons for Revolution

What are three political reasons why the Americans wanted independence?

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III. Economic

What was the biggest economic reason why Americans wanted independence?

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IV. Social/Intellectual

How did Locke, Montesquieu, Voltaire and Wollstonecraft impact America?

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During your time in the computer lab you will be using online resources to learn more about the ideas of the Enlightenment and how these new ideas influenced revolutions around the world.

Step 1 – Double click on the internet explorer icon to open up a new window. You should have one window with the class website and the other to do your research and browsing.

Step 2 – Copy and paste the link onto the new window’s browser: http://notebook.lausd.net/portal/page?_pageid=33,245998&_dad=ptl&_schema=PTL_EP

This link will take you to LAUSD’s Digital Library where you will do your research.

Step 3 Britannica Online – Click on the link “Britannica Online.” The online search engine is divided into three major sections, Encyclopedia Britannica, Compton’s Encyclopedia and Elementary Encyclopedia. When you type a term in the search engine you will get articles from these three sections.

Step 4 Research – In the Britannica Online you will search for the terms found below in the search engine. Read over both the Encyclopedia Britannica, Compton’s Encyclopedia and when available the Elementary Encyclopedia. By looking at all three resources you will get a better picture of the meaning and importance of each term. As you are searching for all 12 terms start to question whose ideas are more interesting or one’s you want to learn more about.

Step 5 – The 5 Ws of the Enlightenment. As you are searching for each term fill out the handout given. In the “Who” section you will write the search term exactly like it is below, the “What” section you will give a description of what the term is about, DO NOT SIMPLY COPY WHAT IS ONLINE!. In the “Where” section you will write the place it took place in and the “When” you find the time period it took place in.

In the “5 Ws of the Enlightenment” I want you to notice that there is only space for six terms. The list below is broken down into 6 numbers or 6 sections. The first two are terms that you need to include in the handout, Enlightenment and Enlightenment Women. However, for sections 3-6 you will pick one term for each of the grouping. For example, in section 6 you have a choice to write about Louverture from Saint Domingue/Haiti, Bolivar from South America, or Adams and Jefferson from America. You may have found the plight of the slave colony more interesting so you will fill out the 5 Ws for Toussaint Louverture. So remember, you should spend time looking at each term and choosing carefully because you will spend some more time on the terms that you chosen … a writing project.

Enlightenment Search List

(Copy and paste each term on the search bar):

1. Enlightenment

2. Enlightenment Women (make sure you find at least 1 woman from the Enlightenment.

3. Early Philosophes (Read over about both terms below and choose 1 to write about) John Locke or Thomas Hobbes

4. Philosophes (Read over about the 3 terms below and choose 1 to write about) Voltaire, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Montesquieu

5. Inspired Revolutions (Read over about both terms below and choose 1 to write about) American Revolution, French Revolution

6. Inspired Revolutionaries (Read over about the three terms below and choose 1 to write about) Toussaint Louverture, Simon Bolivar, John Adams and Thomas Jefferson

I just wanted to welcome all of you to my social studies blog. It’s a new year and hopefully you’ll find this site helpful. Let me know if anything does not show up properly or if you have any problems viewing the site. I look forward to a great mester with everybody.

Today and next Wednesday, June 18th you will have library time to prepare for finals – particularly the research project you have for English. You will use the time to further your research or begin your powerpoint presentation for Mr. Jackson.
The 9th grade topic is “Elizabethan Period” and the 10th grade topic is “Injustice in Today’s World.” The due dates are the same:

June 9th: Formal Outline (MLA style)

June 17th: Storyboard for power point presentation

June 20th: Final Research paper due

*Mr. Jackson is requiring a least one book source for your sources. For academic journals:

1. Copy and paste link on a different browser: www.hollywoodhighschool.net/library/

2. Click on “Dig Lib” on the top, and use any of the search engines. Thomas Gale and EBSCO are highly recommended for their sources.

Remember, looking for sources may be frustrating but keep using different search terms and ALWAYS look at the bibliographies of the good sources you find.

Good luck!

In the library, you will log onto www.myroad.com

Click on the Career Tab, read and record notes on the career that you have choosen. Take the time and review the possible careers that you might be interested in today because you will be spending a lot of time on it.

Click on the link for the Project requirements to help:careerplanningresearch.doc

Helpful Link for Up to date information on your career:

Occupational Outlook Handbook (Copy and paste link) www.bls.gov/oco

For today’s assignment, you will be choosing your top three career choices you are interested in pursing. Follow the directions below, by the end of the period you will turn in your list with a brief explanation of why you chose them.

1. Copy and paste link onto a new web browser: www.myroad.com

2. Sign in using your user name and password. If you have not yet created an account, scroll down to “College and Career Planning” assignment posted below.

3. Click on red “ID ME” tab and select “Quickstart”

4. You will first do the “Quickstart Careers” Once you are done with the quiz, choose as many careers that interests you and save your results.

5. You will go back to the “ID ME” tab but will now click on the “ORA Personality Profiler” link that is found on the left hand side. You will take this quiz and compare the results with the “Quickstart Careers.” Using both results, choose your top three careers that you would like to learn more about. You will eventually focus on one, but I want you to explore your top three for now.

Remember to give me your choices at the end of the period.

Starting next week (March 17th – rest of the semester) we will begin tutorials on Tuesday & Thursday. We will also continue to check binders on Friday. If you want to know more about the requirements or forget to pick out a Tutorial Request form, I’ve attached the links for the Binder Check and Tutorials.

Binder Check Link: binder-check.doc

Tutorial Request Form Link: avid-tutorial-request-form.doc