In class: Night and Fog free write

Date assigned
Thursday, Dec. 18


Assignment
Watch "Night and Fog" - http://www.disclose.tv/action/viewvideo/185403/Night_and_Fog_1955/

Free write for 5-10 minutes on your choice of the following questions:

1) What image shocked you the most in this film?

2) How do people do things like this to each other?

3) What is evil?  Was everyone involved in the Holocaust evil?

4) How is this film different from other movies and books about the Holocaust that you've studied?  How is it different?

5) Can this happen again?  Why or why not?


Due date
Thursday, Dec. 18, end of class

In class: Fog of War free write

Date assigned

Monday, Dec. 15

Assignment

Watch the clip from Fog of War: http://www.solarmovie.ws/watch-the-fog-of-war-eleven-lessons-from-the-life-of-robert-s-mcnamara-2003-online.html


We started at 30:05 and stopped at 43:05.


Then write a response to the following two questions that McNamara himself asks during the film:


1) "In order to win a war, should you kill 100,000 civilians in a single night?"


2) "What makes it immoral if you lose, but not immoral if you win?"


Due dateMonday, Dec. 15, end of class

NO HOMEWORK

I screwed up, so you don't have homework this weekend.

In class: World War II slide notes

Fascism, Hitler, and the Nazis (Tuesday, December 2) - https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Li7VYuFJQZueoa54Gu8uORFBOyn6zmkpFV4-LRd7J-0/pub?start=false&loop=false&delayms=3000

Germany rises again (Thursday, December 4 and Monday, December 8) - https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1ft4WZ-WyQk8V4d9lEP3ie8J4H23U7mJo-N6JZpsyU1o/pub?start=false&loop=false&delayms=3000

Propaganda (Tuesday, December 9) - https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1-bW74EPN82mY-ivaxETdk034FIxNg-VpfbRYEmzGwcg/pub?start=false&loop=false&delayms=3000

Pearl Harbor (Thursday, December 11) - https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1vc14ajJzAMidzwdgl0LmJZHQugeg6AKUpqP0msZEIK0/pub?start=false&loop=false&delayms=3000

Atomic bomb (Thursday, December 11) - https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/17A6Xya3RK-dAyehlS5UZWkDRdbXwSA1xOK6DD61qdWs/pub?start=false&loop=false&delayms=3000

PROJECT: Propaganda

The instructions for the propaganda project are located here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1BoFxfNceowEip77Z6A7amL2HOiN_u5diWEFhCX5WNEM/pub

Due Tuesday, January 27

In class: Propaganda

The Propaganda slide notes from Tuesday, Dec. 10 are located here.

Bugs Bunny Nips the Nips: http://www.teachertube.com/video/bugs-bunny-nips-the-nips-22830

US Marines commercial: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDZ2fMHTvwk&feature=share&list=FLcDHe0vV8mYtmmqCRwjKdzg&index=34

Turn Out For What - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rijpU5yD55I