• Listen to this video...Take notes on it for a quiz tomorrow

Also do this notebook assignment...

1. Watch the video on the Reformation with several people around the computer and take notes. The notes you take on the video is notebook assignment #2.
2. Work with a partner and draw a Venn Diagram, with the three interlocking circles being Catholicism, Lutheranism, and Calvinism.  Label each of the sections formed with a letter or number, and then add as many items as you can for each letter or number. This Venn diagram is notebook assignment #3, so even though you are working with a partner, you must each get the Venn Diagram in your own notebooks.

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• OK, it's time to take the test!

Three notebook assignments today. All 6 notebook assignments are due on Friday, at the end of the period. Worth: 75 points.

1. divine right theory,
2. the influx of wealth into Europe from the New World, and
3. the decline of the power of nobles.

But in England a different tradition developed that put a check on the power of any monarch who tried to gain absolute power.  This check was the power of Parliament, an assembly representing the people. Even though Stuart kings often dissolved Parliament... (cont'd)

• Take this quiz on Peter the Great, and other parts of chapter 17, The Age of Absolutism.
• Peter the Great.  Design a chart in the lab today, with no writing (just the FORM for the chart...) in which you will compare the actions of 4 kings: From Spain (Philip II), France (Louis XIV), England (Charles I) and Russia (Peter the Great).  Compare these 4 kings on just two things...what they did to increase their power and what forces were working against their having absolute power. Every student must generate their own chart. You will use these in class tomorrow so you can fill in by hand the various parts of the chart. (So bring your book to class tomorrow!)
• Make at least one post to the Moodle...your job is to add something a king can do to centralize, strengthen or extend his power.  You can either add something, or respond to something someone else has added (to agree or disagree with them.)

• Brainpops. Watch the Causes of the American Revolution...short quiz on it tomorrow...Causes of the American Revolution  name and password: bhspahl
• Today's Moodle:  The American Revolution was largely fueled by a small number of radical activists.  They defeated powerful England and took over control of the 13 colonies.  Do you think a small number of activists today could overthrow the U.S. government and take control of it?  Explain why or why not...
• Review and study for the 3rd Quarter targets test...

• brainpops name and password: bhspahl
• French Revolution
• Napoleon

• Notebook assignment number 8.  The five governments/phases of the French Revolution. This is worth 50 points.  Two (2) people can work on it together (not 3 or more) if they each have equal parts in getting it done.
• Watch the brainpops: French Revolution and Napoleon. name: bhspahl password: bhspahl
• Take this test when you have finished watching those videos.
• Moodle. Comment on this article. It talks about how one state wants to ban phones in schools, and it also talks about how smart phones could be used in schools for educational purposes.  Weigh in with your opinion...Worth up to 10 points for reasoned answers...
• (Check your grade...)

Tell Me A Story...

...about the 5 stages of the French Revolution.  For 5 points tell me on Moodle what you are doing to tell your story (video, booklet, PowerPoint, etc.) and if you are working alone or with a partner...

Use the lab today to research, get pictures and graphics, and work on your storyboard, your narrative, your writing or whatever you are doing to tell the story...

Notebook assignment #8.

The Industrial Revolution.  Your assignment...

• "What was the Industrial Revolution and why did it begin in England?"

You should probably get together your three strongest reasons that the IR began in England.  (Do Google searches on Industrial Revolution and England, etc.)

The essay is due at the end of the period.  Write the essay in Word and submit it to Mr. Pahl on Moodle.  BE SURE TO HAVE YOUR NAME AND PERIOD IN THE NAME YOU GIVE YOUR ESSAY.

• Online Textbook link    Username is larrypahl   Password is history

• Take this test on Chapter 21, sections 1 and 2.

• Moodle.  What would it take to join in a revolution?  Please read the Moodle question, then 1) post your answer and 2) comment or feedback on someone else's post. 

• Give the newspaper an Italian name.
• Have a front page story with a headline
• that focuses on the achieving of unification.

Put together a small newspaper (1 or 2 pages) in which you explain the following things to a 7th grade class:

• What were the hurdles to Italian unification in the 19th Century?
• What/who were the forces that were attempting to unify Italy?
• Describe these 4 players in the battle to get Italy unified:

1. Mazzini
2. Garibaldi
3. Victor Emmanuel II and his prime minister Cavour

• Add a timeline of events that led to unification of Italy
• Add a map

Worth 25 points. Due at the beginning of the period Thursday, tomorrow.

Once you have written the essay in Word, you can either

• paste it into your response to the Moodle question, or
• upload the Word document to Mr. Pahl

The essay is due tomorrow (Thursday), but you should have time to finish it in the lab today.  It is worth 20 points.  Use good essay form.

No Games or extraneous surfing in the lab today, you are either working on the test or the essay.  See Mr. Pahl if you have finished.

Don't forget, you have a chart due Friday in which you summarize Chapter 25. You can work on that after you have finished the quiz.

This is an open book test, but you CANNOT use your hard-copy book.  You can open the ONLINE textbook only for this... (Username is larrypahl   Password is history)

1. This section of the book (25.3) is called "European Challenges to the Muslim World."  Describe the Muslim world that the book is talking about...
2. Name 3 problems the Ottoman Empire faced at the end of the 1800s...
3. How did Egypt seek to modernize in the late 19th century?
4. Why did Iran become a focus of European interest in the latter 19th Century?  Explain completely...

You can send these answers here:

1. The first part of your quiz:  You can use the online book for this part of the test, but not for part 2.  (ONLINE textbook Username is larrypahl   Password is history) Do no submit either test before Thursday or you will get a 0.

2. Second part of the quiz. Quiz 25.4.

• Work on your chart, due tomorrow, when you are done. Basically in the chart you will summarize The New Imperialism.
• If you are done with the tests and the chart, then write out the first 500 pages of Webster's Dictionary.  After that, you may play internet games. Turn the 500 pages into the sub.

China and the New Imperialism

1. Part 1. Answer the question on the World History Moodle. Write with a plan.  Show organization.  Make it obvious.
2. Part 2.  Take quiz 25.5
3. Finish the chart summarizing Chap. 25, The New Imperialism. Do your best.
4. If you are finished with all of these, then your assignment is to memorize 10 pages of the holy book of your choice, until the bell rings. If you finish this, you may surf the net.

Moodle.  On Westernization. 7 points

• Use the Online Textbook link    Username is larrypahl   Password is history
• Sections 26.5 and 26.1. 
• Use the Map on Western Imports to do notebook assignment #10, due tomorrow.  Make a rough replica of this map in your notebook and then, with text, indicate 3 things that were imported into the West, and name the countries that these things came from.
• Do a Concept Map on your essay (but improve on your essay if you need to) of The Impact of Imperialism (26.5).  Have the central and largest circle be "Imperialism" and then have three circles off of that which are the three main points of 26.5 (and then have smaller circles off of each one of those.  This is notebook assignment #11.
• Go to the map on 1914 and use it to color in the maps you had due today to show just two groups: The Allies and the Central Powers.
• (Don't forget the Moodle to the left...has to be done today, no grade for doing later...)

World War I

• Read 27.1 "The Stage is Set." With a partner, study the items which will be on your quiz tomorrow, taken from the chapter 27.1 Assessment, at the end of section 1.  Quiz your partner and have your partner quiz you on each of these terms and questions...
• Do Notebook Assignment #12.  It is the flowchart assignment in 27.2 in the online textbook.
• Online Textbook link    Username is larrypahl   Password is history

World War I

• Turn your notebook into Mr. Pahl.
• Take the quiz on 27.1
• Read 27.2 "The Guns of August" in the online textbook.
• With your partner, quiz each other on 27.2
• Take the quiz on 27.2

• World War I
• Take the Chapter 27 test...
• Some of you (7th period!) need to make up these tests:
• 27.1 and 27.2

• Moodle about World War I. PLEASE NOTE: there are two separate Moodle questions about War....
• Be sure to get the names, written NEATLY, on your post-World War I map.  COLOR the land lost by RUSSIA, AUSTRIA-HUNGARY, and GERMANY.  Be sure to put a subtitle and a key on the map.
• Study the Post World War I countries
• AFTER you have studied, take this TEST on the names of the Post World War I countries.
• Study the differences between socialism, democracy and communism. Economic Theories
  • Capitalism
  • Socialism
  • Pure Communism (Marxism)
• Quiz on socialism, democracy and communism.

• Study the map of Europe after World War I.
• Know all the country names!
• Study guide for the final...

• BRING YOUR TEXTBOOK TO THE FINAL!!!!!!!
• Check your grade    7th    8th
• ...your actual % is shown.
• Yellow= final could change your grade.
• An "A" on final could change almost ANY grade... 
• Red=See me if you want to pass

• Study guide for the final...