July 19

Social 20-1

We continued looking at genocide today by watching the CNN Special "Scream Bloody Murder". As you watched the film you should have been taking notes on the following genocides of the 20th and 21st centuries: Cambodian Killing Fields, Saddam Hussein's Iraq, Bosnia, Rwanda, and Darfur.

We also started our film study of "Shake Hands with the Devil". While you watched the video, you should have been answering questions from the Unit 2 study booklet.

You wrote your Unit 2 WRA II Essay in the Blenheim Room after the break. Don't forget that your Chapter 7 Key Terms and Questions are due on Monday, and your Chapter 8 Key Terms and Questions are due on Tuesday. Your Chapter 7-8 Test is on Tuesday (July 23rd), please see the study guide here (scroll down to find it). Your Unit 2 Final Exam is on Wednesday, July 24th, please see the study guide here (scroll down to find it).

Please make sure that you keep up with the readings from the green study booklet, specifically the following:

• Down the Road to World War II
• Blitzkrieg to the Bomb
• Blitzkrieg! (reading on front with map on back)
• Barbarossa
• Japan's Pacific Blitzkrieg
• The Turn of the Tide: Hitler Tastes Defeat
• The Defeat of Hitler's Germany
• Japanese Defeat in the Far East
• Canada's Role in WWII

(The readings above were assigned on July 16th)

Some more readings and topics from the Unit 2 study booklet that you should be looking at this weekend are:

• "Contemporary Examples of Genocide" (this is a PowerPoint presentation that won't be delivered in class but contains valuable information)
• Contemporary Examples of Genocide readings (particularly focus in on Rwanda)