April 10

Social 30-1

You wrote your Nazi Germany Quiz today. You'll get the results of this quiz tomorrow. We watched a little bit of "Triumph of the Will" and then you were to use the remainder of class time to read Chapter 7 in your textbook. Make sure that you read this chapter prior to tomorrow's class since we're starting the Cold War tomorrow.

Social 20-1

After having another look at some exemplars of the Unit 2 dossier research assignment, we watched a documentary film called "Genocide". Tomorrow we'll continue with the Holocaust by watching excerpts from "Schindler's List" and the prosecution of the Nazi war criminals at the conclusion of WWII.

IB 30/35

We watched Episode 6 of the PBS documentary series "Eyes on the Prize" today, it was called "Bridge to Freedom". While you watched the film you were to answer questions from the film study worksheet. Your answers to these questions are due tomorrow. Please remember that you have a Civil Rights Movement Test on Monday, April 15th and a Paper 3 on the Civil Rights Movement on Thursday, April 18th.

Make sure that you review your IB command terms again! Here are some possible questions from previous IB Exams:

• What were the successes of the civil rights movement from 1950-1964 and how were those successes obtained?
• What were the successes and failures of the civil rights movement between 1954 and 1964?
• Explain the development of the civil rights movement in the 1950’s.
• To what degree had it achieved its objectives by the time of the March on Washington in 1963?
• How were the philosophies and tactics of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X different and what caused those differences?
• Why had the civil rights movement come to dominate national attention by 1964?
• What impact did the Black Power Movement have on the Civil Rights Movement?
• Compare and contrast the strategies of Martin Luther King and Malcolm X.
• What factors contributed to the urban riots post 1964?
• The civil rights movement had achieved most of its basic goals by 1965. To what degree do agree with that statement?
• Overall would you characterize the civil rights movement as a unified or dis-unified movement?
• Evaluate the effectiveness of the NAACP’s strategy from 1950-1968.