Friday, April 25, 2025

  1. Warm Up Questions
    1. What is the most watched single-day sporting event in the world?
    2. What has Major League Baseball created to be the “World Cup” of baseball?
    3. Which basketball star became one of the biggest names in women's sports in 2024?

  2. Review Unit 9: Essential Question #3

  3. What McDonald’s Menu Items Look Like Around The World Video

  4. Climate Change 101 with Bill Nye Video

  5. Greta Thunberg's Full Speech to World Leaders at UN Climate Action Summit Video

  6. Is the World Flat or Spiky?
    Use the reading (Unit 9 Reader) to answer the questions

Thursday, April 24, 2025

  1. Warm Up Questions
    1. What is the term which means the “primary means of communication used to reach the vast majority of the general public”?
    2. By rejecting Barbie in Iran, what dolls were created?
    3. What is the largest e-retail store in the world?

  2. Finish Discussing Globalized Culture
    Take Notes

  3. What McDonald’s Menu Items Look Like Around The World Video

  4. Review Unit 9: Essential Question #2

  5. Globalization and Environmental Issues
    Use the reading (Unit 9 Reader) to answer the questions

Wednesday, April 23, 2025

  1. Warm Up Questions
    1. After what event were a number of international institutions created?
    2. What institution’s goal is to create a “better, healthier, fairer, and more peaceful world”?
    3. Under what category do institutions like the Red Cross and Greenpeace operate?

  2. What the Heck is the UN? Video

  3. Globalized Culture
    Take Notes

Tuesday, April 22, 2025

  1. Warm Up Questions
    1. Who was the person responsible for planning the attacks on 9/11?
    2. Where was the first suicide bombing in Western Europe?
    3. What is the name of the terrorist organization which kidnaps girls in Nigeria?

  2. 9/11: How America’s Worst Terror Attack Unfolded Video

  3. Review Unit 9: Essential Question #2

  4. International Institutions
    Use the reading (Unit 9 Reader) to answer the questions

  5. Unit 9 Essential Questions (Homework--Due the day of the unit test)

Monday, April 21, 2025

  1. Warm Up Questions
    1. What was the terrorist organization responsible for the Munich Massacre?
    2. In what city was the worst terrorist attack against Americans, prior to 9/11?
    3. The terrorists who blew up Pan Am 103 came from what country?

  2. Finish Discussing Terrorism in the 20th Century
    Take Notes

  3. Clip from History Rocks: The 1970s Music Video
    Munich Massacre

  4. Discuss Terrorism in the 21st Century
    Take Notes

Friday, April 11, 2025

  1. Warm Up Questions
    1. What is the term which means “a person who is forced to leave their home to escape danger due to war, persecution, or environmental hazards”?
    2. What country’s civil war created a crisis of #1 in 2015?
    3. What three 20th century events created global crises of #1?

  2. How U.S. Involvement In Central America Led To a Border Crisis Video

  3. Discuss Terrorism in the 20th Century
    Take Notes

Thursday, April 10, 2025

Period 2:
  1. Warm Up Questions
    1. What religion are most Bosnians?
    2. What religion are the Uyghurs?
    3. What religion are the Rohingya?
    4. What religion is the majority of Myanmar?

  2. Finish Genocide, Part II
    Use the information from Part I and this video to answer the questions

  3. A Century of Refugees
    Use the reading (Unit 9 Reader) to answer the questions

Wednesday, April 9, 2025

Period 1:
  1. Warm Up Questions
    1. What religion are most Bosnians?
    2. What religion are the Uyghurs?
    3. What religion are the Rohingya?
    4. What religion is the majority of Myanmar?

  2. Finish Genocide, Part II
    Use the information from Part I and this video to answer the questions

  3. A Century of Refugees
    Use the reading (Unit 9 Reader) to answer the questions

Tuesday, April 8, 2025

Period 2:
  1. Warm Up Questions
    1. Under the UN definition of genocide, it is an attempt to destroy one of which four groups?
    2. What was the name of the Communist government that carried out the Cambodia genocide?
    3. What country intervened to end the Cambodian genocide?

  2. Finish Genocide, Part I
    Watch each of the videos in the playlist, and for each genocide, write down three things that happened with the genocide: victims, perpetrators, actions

  3. Genocide, Part II
    Use the information from Part I and this video to answer the questions

Monday, April 7, 2025

Period 1:
  1. Warm Up Questions
    1. Under the UN definition of genocide, it is an attempt to destroy one of which four groups?
    2. What was the name of the Communist government that carried out the Cambodia genocide?
    3. What country intervened to end the Cambodian genocide?

  2. Finish Genocide, Part I
    Watch each of the videos in the playlist, and for each genocide, write down three things that happened with the genocide: victims, perpetrators, actions

  3. Genocide, Part II
    Use the information from Part I and this video to answer the questions