Period 3 Mon Nov 1 - Fri Nov 5

Do Now: Check out the COMMITTEE of SEVENTY's page of ELECTION INFORMATION
Write down your polling place and go VOTE tomorrow! If you are not 18, consider going to a neighborhood polling place to volunteer. Be an ACTIVE CITIZEN! 10 merits to anyone who brings in proof they voted on Wednesday.

Classwork:

Choice 1: Work on your NHD research. Use the TOPIC SELECTION essay to guide your research. Make sure you are using PRIMARY and legit sources (NOT wikipedia, about.com, ask.com). By Fri Nov 5, you must have 5 annotated sources and your thesis paragraph written.

Choice 2: Artist Research POWERPOINT (due FRI. NOV 5). Click HERE to see the project in full detail.

Choice 3: Online Photo Editing and iMovie animation Project (due Fri. Nov 5) Click HERE to see project details.


Time permitting: You may work on finishing any design elements of your Art Board Game

The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare

The Half-Hearted Hollywood Effort:

Hopefully you didn't see the movie The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen but did read the comics, which feature a band of legendary fictional characters such as Captain Nemo, the Invisible Man and Dr. Jeckyll/Mr. Hyde, all coming together from separate fictional universes to save the world.

The BAMF True Story:

What if we told you that there was a secret military unit during World War II which featured this guy:

And this guy:

...who operated out of Sherlock Holmes' headquarters and saved the world from nuclear annihilation at the hands of the Nazis?

Meet the Special Operations Executive, a super-secret branch of the UK military personally tasked by Winston Churchill to "set Europe ablaze." On the crew were James Bond-creator Ian Fleming (who would base Bond on his own experiences), as well as members who would be Fleming's inspirations for M, Q, Miss Moneypenny and the sultry Vesper Lynd. They were joined by the future Dracula/Saruman/Dooku Christopher Lee. They were stationed at Baker Street. Yep, the place where the fictional Sherlock Holmes solved his mysteries.

These "Baker Street Irregulars" were Churchill's go-to guys and girls for "ungentlemanly" warfare. If there was a bridge that needed busting or an Axis officer who needed seducing, you'd better believe the SOE had all the cloaks and daggers necessary to make sure Colonel Arschloch spent his last moments of WWII getting murdered in his bed anywhere from the English Channel to Southeast Asia.

The Ministry's greatest achievement, and perhaps the single finest act of sabotage in all of WWII, was Operation Gunnerside: a crossover between the Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare and their cousins in the Norwegian Resistance. Their mission: train a crack commando unit of former-Vikings to join SOE on a secret mission to destroy a heavy water plant in Norway before the Nazis could build an atomic bomb with it. It's thanks to these unknown gentlemen of WWII that Hitler didn't have any nuclear-tipped V-2 rockets to turn the last months of the war into something akin to Judgment Day.

If only.

Wilson from PA, Ironic, proposed 3/5th

NHD research 3/5th compromise

The critical period of American history, 1783-1789

By John Fiske

http://books.google.com/books?id=AfEXKr-6UeEC&dq=3%2F5th%20compromise&pg=PA262#v=onepage&q&f=false

What is a Primary Source?

The most basic definition of a primary source is something that was written or produced during the time period that a student is investigating. Primary sources are materials directly related to a topic by time or participation. These materials include letters, speeches, diaries, newspaper articles from the time, oral history interviews, documents, photographs, artifacts, or anything else that provides first-hand accounts about a person or event. This definition also applies to primary sources found on the Internet. A letter written by President Lincoln in 1862 is a primary source for a student researching the Civil War era. A newspaper article about the Battle of Gettysburg written by a contemporary in July 1863 would be a primary source; but an article about the battle written in June 2001 probably was not written by an eyewitness or participant and would not be a primary source. The memories of a person who took part in the battle also can serve as a primary source. He or she was an eyewitness to and a participant in this historical event at the time.

NHD SAMPLE TOPICS

Immigration is a topic that is hotly debated today and has been continually questioned since our nation began; what should the nation’s policy be on immigration? The answer to this question has changed over time because of the supply and demand for goods, cheap labor and available resources.

From 1820 to the present the U.S. has had five distinct eras and policies on immigration. Any of these eras are steeped in possible research topics. If students are interested in the impact of immigration they may want to create:

• a web site on the “Open Door” policy for immigrants during the years 1820–1880.
• a performance about the “door ajar” era of immigration when immigration inspired a xenophobic reaction (Chinese Exclusion Act). This had a ripple effect in the entire economic system of the late 19th century.
• an exhibit about the Know Nothing Party & Anti Irish Catholic sentiment
  

Theme: Debate & Diplomacy
Interest: Immigration
Topic:
Issue/Events:

The debate must be studied during the particular time and place in history it began. The temptation is to study the modern day debate and bring in the historical story. Digging into a topic from its inception, examining the historical context and asking questions regarding the historical significance transforms a current event report into historical research.

Stopping Hilter Pre-WWII

Unfought Wars That Would

Have Changed Everything

Some day we're going to look back at the wars of the 20th century and laugh. Except not really, because they were awful and horrifying. But we can take comfort in knowing that as terrible as the wars of the last century were, some of these near misses might have really messed your shit up. Or saved the world. It could go either way, really.

WARNING: The following article contains historical speculation from a comedy website.

Fall Grun aka Stopping Hitler Before WWII

World War II, as you probably already know, started when Hitler invaded Poland in 1939, and lasted until the Axis nations surrendered in 1945. Over those years, 60 million people were killed and most of the world's countries got involved with over 100 million people deployed in some form or another. Now, imagine if the entire thing could have been avoided by taking the Nazis out before they ever really got started. That's what some historians think might have happened if the Fuhrer would have gotten his way in the Fall of 1938.

If the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts had lowered its standards in 1907, we could have avoided all this unpleasantness.

In 1938, Hitler wanted the Sudetenland, the western part of Czechoslovakia that was largely occupied by ethnic Germans. And Hitler wanted it bad, so bad that he was ready to launch a war for it. The invasion he planned was called Fall Grun, or Case Green, and the Fuhrer was going to use all of the Nazi military might to get it.

What Stopped It:

This miracle of peace.

Way to go, Chamberlain.

Even though Hitler wanted war more than anything else that Christmas, England and France were still shaken over the previous world war. So the European powers managed to talk Hitler into a group therapy session at Munich, and Hitler got the Sudetenland (without Czechoslovakia's approval) in exchange for promising to be nice for the rest of the century.

He has his fingers crossed underneath that podium.

But what if Hitler had shown up drunk, pissed on the carpet, and left?

If The War Had Happened...

WWII would have been over before it began.

Hitler's generals whipped up their plan to invade Czechoslovakia, Fall Grun, but they may as well have called it Operation Many Dead Nazis. The German military was in no way prepared for what would have been war with France and England in 1938, especially while the bulk of their army would have been fighting their way through the Sudetenland. Their whole military was "under-trained, underprepared and unequipped" for any kind of a fight, which is why Hitler's chief of the general staff Ludwig Beck resigned in protest over the operation.

German Wehrmacht, circa 1938.

So, if the Munich Pact hadn't blundered its way into existence, Hitler would have invaded, England, France, Poland and Soviet Russia would have rallied against them, the Nazis would have exhausted their resources, and they would have been soundly defeated in months. Boom. Done. The conflict would likely have gone down as one more European war, getting a one-page summary in the history books. No blitzkrieg, no fall of France, no Holocaust and a new cast of characters in every WWII shooter ever made.

MacArthur's Nuclear War

Unfought Wars That Would

Have Changed Everything

Some day we're going to look back at the wars of the 20th century and laugh. Except not really, because they were awful and horrifying. But we can take comfort in knowing that as terrible as the wars of the last century were, some of these near misses might have really messed your shit up. Or saved the world. It could go either way, really. WARNING: The following article contains historical speculation from a comedy website. MacArthur's Nuclear War Depending on who you ask, General Douglas MacArthur was either one of the greatest heroes or greatest assholes in American history. After becoming generalissimo of the army during WWII, he was given the honor of heading up all UN forces when North Korea invaded South Korea in June of 1950. By mid-September MacArthur and his UN troops recaptured South Korea, but it was only a matter of weeks before MacArthur decided he might as well shimmy on over to North Korea while they were in the neighborhood. "While we're here..." Naturally, the Chinese got pissed over this charge into communist territory, and answered back with some troops of their own. At this point, the conflict was forced into a stalemate, not unlike the stalemate MacArthur and President Truman were enjoying over who exactly was in control of the United States Army. Especially after the Joint Chiefs of Staff convened to authorize MacArthur the ability to use nuclear weapons against Chinese targets without presidential approval. He loved two things: smoking preposterously large pipes and committing nuclear genocide. Mac was poised to drop 30 to 50 atomic bombs on the country, including "the mainland cities of China," whether Truman liked it or not. What Stopped It: Truman grew a pair and fired him. Or his Masonic overlords told him to do it. When Truman met MacArthur in 1950, the general refused to salute the Commander-in-Chief. That should have tipped him off as to who he was dealing with. When Truman told him to shut the hell up about nukes, MacArthur rallied the Joint Chiefs of Staff against him. Truman had a rogue general on his hands. As if these private acts of insubordination weren't enough, pretty soon the story broke that MacArthur had sent a letter critical of the President's war policy to the Speaker of the House and the press the same day that the Joint Chiefs of Staff were meeting to give him nuke power. By April, 1951, Truman had had enough and he fired MacArthur's ass. No Chinese nuclear war for him. If The War Had Happened... Nuclear weapons would have become conventionalized weapons of war, and China would have been nuked several times over. As for the post-war, any country that had a nuke would have probably used one by now thanks to MacArthur's lead. Basically, war would be Starcraft with worse voice acting. Oh, yeah, there is also the question as to what would have become of the U.S. presidency after MacArthur had essentially staged a military coup against Truman.

Read more: http://www.cracked.com/article_18722_5-unfought-wars-that-would-have-changed-everything.html#ixzz0yuyfs1Zl

Artist Web Site

Artist Web Site

1. Historical background as it relates to the time period that the body of the artist’s work was completed.
2. What is the genre or period classification of work done by the artist.
3. What are the criteria used to classify the genre of the artist’s work.
4. A reflection on what you think about the artist’s work.
   
5. TWO critiques of specific artwork (symbolism, methods, finished product).
   
6. Was this artist recognized (fame, money) in his or her own lifetime? How has the artist's value changed over time? Why?
7. The impact this artist had on their time period and their impact today.
   
8. A picture gallery with at least 10 cited examples of the Artist's work.
9. Layout, colors, and style is creative and appropriate.
   
10. A complete bibliography of all resources must be included.
11. Follows Rubric and Scoring Guide requirements.