December
Mr. McDowell's World History

January, 1999
http://www.guhsd.net/mcdowell
February
 Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday

3
• Welcome Back
• Extra Credit Projects due
• Plagiarism Exercise (
note to parents)
• Return projects ungraded
• Project check-off sheet due by Thursday with revised project.

4
• Discuss slavery
• Slavery in History Timeline

5
• Amstad clip
• Slavery PowerPoint
• Olaudah Reading

6
• Collect revised Industrial Revolution Projects
• Review Olaudah Reading
• Notes:
Intro to Imperialism
• Scramble for Africa Map

7
• Yeats Poem "The Second Coming"
• Get Things Fall Apart from book clerk
• Intro to Things Fall Apart
Homework
TFA Chapters 1-4 read by Monday

10
• Discuss Thinsg Fall Apart Questions
• Analyzing Imperial Motives
Homework
TFA Chapters 5-6 read by Tuesday

11
• Finish Analyzing Imperial Motives
• White /Black Man's Burden poems
Homework: Create a poem as a response to WMB.

12 (late start day)
What would you do? Activity - Facing Colonialism
Homework
TFA Chapters 7-9

13
• Notes: Resistance to Imperialism
• Movie Clip: Zulu
Homework
TFA Chapters 10-11 read by Friday

14 (mcdowell absent)
• Gather Log
• Quiz
• History of India time line
• Read Things Fall Apart
Homework
TFA Chapters 12-15

17
Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday

18
• Gandhi
Homework
TFA Chapters 16-18

19
• Gandhi

20
• Gandhi
Final Review Sheet
Homework
TFA Chapters 19-21

21
• Gandhi
Homework
TFA Chapters 22-25

24
Things Fall Apart wrap up

25
• Final Review

26
• Finals 1,4

27
• Finals 6,3

28
• Finals 2,5

31
• Teacher Work Day - no students


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