Yesterday, we watched a documentary on WWII and then students were split into groups for iPads to use them for writing their vocabulary words and reviewing on the Quizlet app.
Today, Students are completing an appeasement worksheet that has them creating a timeline on a step system. Each letter of appeasement is a different event leading up to World War II. They have to put the dates in order and then place the events that match the dates. This is having them not only work on their timeline skills, but then also making sure they understand how to do basic research (they're googling it today). I have them doing one for the Future Axis Powers and the Future Allied Powers actions. Since the Allied Powers didn't do much (thus the appeasement) I have also included quotes from Haile Selassie and Winston Churchill. Hopefully they're enjoying it and the fact that I'm not just lecturing while they take notes.
Tomorrow, we are doing a web quest to cover the Holocaust. They are using websites primarily from the Holocaust Museum's website (if you've never been it is located in Washington D.C. and worth the visit), but they have many articles online discussing the Holocaust as reference for students. They are also comparing and contrasting - I have Niermoller Quote and the Hangman's Poem. I also have them researching Stalin and the Great Purge (and subsequent purges) as well to compare and contrast the actions of multiple countries.
This is allowing the students to work on skills they need to know for their final exam, skills that will assist them after high school, and allowing me to go group by group to help, but also get a chance to reacquaint myself with my students since I haven't seen them in so long. (On a positive side note: I remember LOTS of names!!!)
