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Class Description:
World History is a Freshman level required course covering the Enlightenment through present day.
To get to class materials click on one of the links: Assignments or Links and Downloads. Before printing any PowerPoint, please check out my Computer How To page.
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Class Calendar
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- Snow Day Assignments
Day One: Go to YouTube.com, search for a video related to the topic we covered in class the previous day or week. Write down the information that was presented, if included news clips, primary sources, or all secondary source, if the video seem biased at all, and your overall opinion of the video. You should watch a video or combination of videos that total 20 minutes in length for each day
*If you cannot access youtube, go to google video or yahoo video.
*If video cannot be accessed do a search for the topic and articles. For example: Russian Revolution Articles.
Day Two: Repeat Day One
Day Three: Complete a News Assign. In lieu of doing traditional current events, you will instead be watching news shows on TV every other week. We are increasingly relying on TV for our news, hence the weekly assignment. Every week you will need to watch an interview show on either Fox NEWS, CNN, MSNBC, NBC, CBS, ABC, etc. Comedy Central is not a news channel so you cannot choose The Daily Show or The Colbert Report. Morning shows like Today or Good Morning America are also not acceptable choices. When in doubt, ask. Most of these shows can also be watched online. Examples: Meet the Press, Hardball, Mitchell Reports, The Last Word, The O’Reilly Factor, Fox and Friends, Huckabee, In the Arena, Piers Morgan, You will need to rotate each week to avoid watching one channel for the entire year. Each news channel has their own agenda beyond the ‘news’. On our return you will turn in a sheet with the following information: Title of Show, Date of Show, Topic of Show, Guests (name and title/affiliation), Tone of interview and discussion, Any political perspective/bias that you can detect
- Map Tests
East Asia- 8/31
Central Asia- 9/14
Europe- 9/27 (Thursday) *Changed from 9/28
Central America- 10/11 (Thursday)
Re-Do 10/26
Africa 11/2
Middle East 11/16
US 11/30
South America 12/7
Re-Do 12/21
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