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Teaching the Study Group Teaching Material PowerPoints SG1 Teaching Material PowerPoints SG2 Teaching Material PowerPoints SG3 Teaching Material PowerPoints SG4

ASSIGNMENT A

1. Post your PowerPoints on demottapworld.wikispaces.com under your particular Study Group. (There are items on the sidebar called "Teaching Material PowerPoint SG")

For example: (SG2) Our hero Hamza posts his Bolivar and San Martin Powerpoint on Study Group 2 website.

2. Discuss the notes from TWO members of your study group but not from your class, so that you have a set of notes from these two students. You should do this through study group discussion or through meeting face to face. If you contact your partners in any other form, please let make these notes available if asked for.

For example: (SG2) Our hero Hamza decides to interview Brittany and Renzie for his two set of notes, and gathers two sets, of about 5 minutes each (were he to present). To prepare, he looks at each powerpoint and creates a set of questions for interviewing. With Brittany, let's say, he is able to meet over lunchtime and manages to get in a 30 minute interview. (Luckily for Brittany, she chose him as a partner for her interview, and she took advantage of the time and interviewed Hamza). For his second interview, Renzie and Hamza facebook each other to ask their questions. As Renzie didn't pick Hamza for her partner, she would have to interview someone else and Hamza could possibly expect a second interview from another student (Tianni, for example).

3. Write TWO pieces of writing (Iceberg Model) in which: a. You present in writing in the first section: background information gathered from one interview b. You present in writing in the second section: other examples in history (perhaps from your own presentation, perhaps from your other studies (Spodek, etc), perhaps from your other interview, perhaps from you listening to the presentations of others) c. You present in writing the third section: an analysis of the concepts present and the creation of a thesis statement and/or thesis statements. This is the "Big Picture" section and should have examples in history only to prove the thesis. d. Repeat steps a.-c. for the second interview. e. Post your findings on your Study Group

For example: (SG2) Our hero Hamza takes his interview notes, puts one set aside for later, then proceeds to organize the notes into three separate categories, a. base knowledge, b. other examples, and c. big pictures. Afterwards, he writes his Iceberg Model, following the criteria above. Knowing the true form of this model, Hamza makes sure he has section one (a. above) as the smallest section, section two (b. above) as the medium sized section, and section three (c. above) as the largest section. In other words, the analysis and "big picture" uses the items in the first two sections, and therefore is the most expansive section. He then remembers to post the findings to Teaching Materials PowerPoints SG2, and moves onto his second set of notes to complete his second Iceberg Model writing, remembering to post his final project to the wikispace. Also, before finishing his work, he copies his facebook messges to Renzie and gathers his notes from Brittany to present to the teacher when the "organization and discussion" grade goes into the gradebook, knowing that without evidence, he would not get a grade in the gradebook.

Note: Each paper should probably be 2-3 pages in length.

Good luck and God speed. EDM

=ASSIGNMENT B=

1. Look for your name and prepare lessons on the following topics for the class. (10 minutes, any presentation form necessary) -presentation must include a handouts prepared by the student -each student will be assigned three topics -the presentation can be seen as one big ten minute presentation or as three separate presentations. 2. Be ready to answer questions regarding your topic, including comparative and/or contrast items. 3. Include a list of important words, events, people, dates and times in your handout.

For example: Our heroine Millie looks at her name and sees that her 1st topic is "Nikita Khrushchev", her second topic is "Cheka" and her third topic is the "Kellog Briand Pact". At home or during study time, our heroine Millie researches information on Khrushchev, takes notes from Spodek, does internet searches, contacts Sergei Khrushchev (Nikita's son) at Brown University for a personal interview and compiles 10 minutes worth of information for the presentation. Our heroine Millie decides she wants to create a glogster poster to present her material. On presentation day, our heroine Millie delivers a moving and informative presentation. Members of her class are enticed into knowing more information and have excellent questions, which, when asked, our heroine Millie fields with expertise. At the end of the presentation, our heroine Millie makes available her handout, either as a printed form or via the study group.

Bella B - X-rays, Leapfrogging, Four Freedoms Bella F. darbar, Spanish Civil War, Khomeni Caitlin - Tanzimat, SA, Che James - Twenty one demands, putsch, client states Hamza -Zimmerman Note, Zaibatsu, Nicaragua Natalie - Sun Yat-sen, fascism, American Military-Industrial Complex Lorelna - W.E.B. DuBois, Betty Friedan, "Decade for Women" Melany - Young Turks, "Rape of Nanjing, Gulag Reyna - Battle of the Marne, D-Day, Algeria Alex - Margaret Mead, Battle of Britain, "friendship, alliance, and mutual assistance" (Chinese/Soviet treaty) Alisa - Diego Rivera, Pablo Picasso, Rachel Carson Danielle - Caudillos, keiretsu, "White Man's Burden" Cassidy - Zapata, Alamogordo (New Mexico), Golan Heights Anajah- May Fourth Movement, Milgram Experiment, Lech Walesa

Chase - Woodrow Wilson, Neville Chamberlain, David Ben-Gurion Brandon - Porfirio Diaz, Pu Yi, Dienbienphu Jason - Hays Code, lebensraum, Achmed Sukarno Chris - Adolf von Baeyer, Lend-Lease program, Lumumba Larissa - Sigmund Freud, Ustasa, Kwame Nkrumah Tianni -Bal Gangadhar Tilak, Dresden, Muhammad Reza Pahlavi Millie - Nikita khrushchev, Cheka, Kellog Briand Pact Joanna - Balfour Declaration, "Phoney War", Antonio Salazar Renzie- T.E. Lawrence, Anti-Comintern Pact, Sputnik

Patrick - Battle of the Somme, Invasion of Ethiopia, Berlin Blockade Matt - "Tierra y Libertad", Edwin Montagu, non-aligned nations Steven -Bosnia, Nazism, 1972 Munich Olympics Michaela - Disillusionment, Rhineland, People's Liberation Army Brittany - Suez Canal, Il Duce, King Farouk Dejonee- Balance of Power, Manchuria, Ministry for Interantional Trade and Industry