Great for Tennessee teachers!
Click here–> Ch16Sections3and4WAROFTHEROSES
Imperialism Maps January 4, 2010
Scramble for Africa map
Map of the Pacific... cause most of my kids have no clue where Hawaii or Japan is!
Cuba
Immigration Patterns Resources
THIS WEBSITE IS AWESOME! It’s an interactive immigration chart, and it’s really neat! Check it out:
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2009/03/10/us/20090310-immigration-explorer.html
Here, kids... this is what I mean when I say Eastern and Southern Europe!
Eleanor Roosevelt
Eleanor's letter to the Daughters of the America Revolution, in which she resigns because they refused to allow a black woman, Marian Anderson, to sing at the Constitution Hall.
Great Depression
Inflation Chart
The 9.7% represents the unemployment rate in America for August, 2009, indicating that we are still doing much better than we were back then!
WWI
my WWI flow chart
Link #1- Click here to pull up a list of some of the Pre-WWI “web of alliances”… 1872 League of 3 Emperors Germany .There were so many alliances that an international war was inevitable. Here is another one with graphics–> european_alliances
Link #2- Causes of WWI worksheet. Click here –> Causes_WWOne
Link #3- Life in the Trenches Worksheet–> life_in_the_trenches.Students read this and then write a letter, pretending to be a soldier living in the trenches, back to their family in the states. I got some interesting letters (including one student who told her family she was sitting in the trenches eating Cheetos)!
Schlieffen Plan
Link #4- I’ve never done these in class, but they look neat! They arerole-playing games, where students re-enact the discussions in Versailles. Click here –>Versailles_roleplay . Here is another one –> versaillessimulation
WWI propaganda
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