ratliff -- meh lesson plans april 6 - 10, 2009

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MEH Assignments & Class WorkApril 6 - 10, 2009.

Starred Items Should be in Your Notebook on Friday, April 10, 2009.

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Monday; Tuesday;Wednesday;Thursday; Friday; Important Reminders.

You must email your completed assignments as a single, appropriately-titled MS Word document, using the

provided template (work submitted in any other format, or titled incorrectly, will not be accepted and will bemarked as a zero), to Dr. Ratliff by 3:00 pm on Friday, April 10, 2009.

Failure to meet this requirement will result in a one-letter-grade deduction on your work if submitted at 3:01 pm on Friday; a two-

letter-grade deduction if submitted at any time on Saturday; a three-letter-grade deduction if submitted on Sunday. Your assignment will not

be accepted after 3:00 pm on Sunday. NO EXCEPTIONS.

Monday:Logical Fallacy Red Herring25 points.

Two PartsA. A brief explanation ofRed Herring.B. One example ofRed Herringin common usage.

A Story that Matters, p. 716. 5 points.1. When and where did this battle begin?2. Who were the opposing forces? 3. What was no mans land?4. What details in the story suggest that this was, in

fact, a Great War? Reading Checks , 23.1 10 points.Using primary documents exercise. To be done in class today, tomorrow if we dont haveenough time:

1. Look online for a speech delivered by Woodrow Wilson or another leader, explaining the reasonsfor their entrance into WWI.

2. Analyze that leaders argument.3. How might someone opposed to the war counter these arguments?4. You will findBrigham Young Librarys World War I Document Archivevery helpful.

Tuesday:Using Primary Documents 10 points.

Terror as a weapon of war. Visit theBYU WWI Archiveand read the followingdocuments:The Black Hand;The Assasination of Archduke Ferdinand; andThe Narodna

Odbrana.20 points.

o You must then find three more documents from the BYU WWI Archive dicussingthese type of violent nationalist organization.

o Then, write a two paragraph comparison of the Balkan terrorist groups duringWWI and the terrorist of today.

Secret Alliances. While you work on the your terror as a weapon of war project, I amgoing to give you a slip of paper with the name and email address of one of your

classmates. Youll contact that person by email or google/yahoo chat and arrange an

alliance. They may ask you to ally with another member of the class, too. You makemake any alliance you want.o You are not tell anyone, other than your allies, about your mutually agreed upon commitments.o You may also make a comittment to one ally and not to another. Again, you cant tell anyone about

that comittment, however.
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Wednesday:Reading Checks, 23.2 10 points.

Read the Willy-Nicky Telegrams. What can these correspondences tell us about thenature of relations between European leaders on the eve of war in 1914? 5 points.Thursday:Well look at trench warfare. Robert E. Lee & James Longstreet pioneered it, more-or-less, but the British, French, Germans made it a fine art.

o Take a virtual tour of a WW I trench.o Listen to a Brit talk about life in a trench.o Private Archie Surfleet, 13th Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment: '...as soon as you

warm up those blasted lice start to bite like the devil.'

o Major Walter Vignoles, 10th Lincolnshire Regiment: 'There are millions!! Someare huge fellows, nearly as big as cats...'

Write a one paragraph description of the average soldiers daily life in World War I - 15points.

Friday:Technology during WWI.

o Have a virtual dogfight.o Get Gassed.o Be slaughtered in an open field.

Begin discussing Russias internal affairs.
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