Week of April 18th- 22nd

Monday: Test

Tuesday: New Project, Cold War

The Decades Project. (150 points)

Outline until Monday, about what you are talking ( basic) 

Major Topics for the Semester test. ( 9/11) 

We have the Decade 2000- 2008 

researching: 

  • -music (Charts, best songs music for example in the background) 
  • -movies (academy award winning, actors, movies) 
  • -TV shows (shows) 
  • -video games 
  • -sports (major sports, athletes, Superbowl, world champion ship soccer, Olympic) 
  • -fashion (clothes during that time, typical fashion) ( when u dress up like that extra credit about 10) 
  • -fads (Nintendo Wii for example something that might been around that was really famous but than kind of died out) 
  • -inventions ( for example YouTube, I phone 2003 kids carrying cellphones) 
  • -presidential elections ( who are the candidates, who won, why did that person win)

  • Civil rights (homosexuals, African Americans)
  • Major Events ( laws that shaped the decade space shuttle explosion, 9/11) 
  • Government scandals
  • Interview, Ask someone stuff out of that time

The Songs (due last three or four days of school) 

1. Everyone must sing

2. about three minutes

3. Grading goes on lyrics

4. does the song go to the beat of the music

5. The song chorus focus on overarching version of the song. 

6. Sing about the theme

7. verse tells the story

The Cold War: 

Semester Test Questions: 

1. Understand the causes, effects, goals and major events of the cold war

2.Understand the causes, effects, goals and major events of the  Korea Conflict 

3. Understand the causes, effects, goals and major events of the Vietnam Conflict

Definition Cold War: 

A political strategic and ideological struggle between the US and the Soviet Union  from 1945-1990

Spread throughout the world Europe Asia , Africa and Latin American

Wednesday:

Causes of the Cold war: 

  • Different political systems.
  • US is based on democracy, capitalism and freedom 
  • USSR is based on dictatorship, communism and control 
  • The Red Scare 1919
  • Both thought their system was better and distrusted the others intention
  • Stalin despised capitalism 
  • Distrust WWII
  • USSR fears atomic bombs
  • USSR actions in their German zone
  • USSR goal to spread communism around the world

Thursday: 

Work Day

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