REMINDER: I don’t offer last minute extra credit or deals to round up your grade. This is a good time to check Eschool and see if you have any recent assignments missing.
Essential Questions:
In order to ensure a successful society, which is more important—economic freedom or political freedom?
Could the collapse of the Soviet Union have been avoided? Why or why not?
Monday 5/20: Soviet Economic Collapse
Cars and Candy Activity
LECTURE: First few slides
HW: Study for Practice Quiz. Block Day
HW: "Cracks in the Soviet Union" packet (Due Block Day)
Tuesday, 5/21: Finish Lecture on Soviet Collapse + Video.
LECTURE: Finish
VIDEO: “People’s Century” Episode 25. Minutes 3:20-14:45 (from Red Square parade to end of off-brand Beatles song). Look for examples of the Soviet Union's and the USA's "soft power" and be ready to discuss them.
DEBRIEF: What "soft power" did the Soviet Union have? How about the USA?
HW: Study for Practice Quiz. Block Day
HW: "Cracks in the Soviet Union" packet (Due Block Day)
Block Day 5/22-5/23: Practice Quiz + VIDEO
QUICK DEBATE: Which cause was the MOST IMPORTANT reason why the Soviet Union collapsed?
Using your notes, your HW, the video and the DBQ discuss the importance of the following causes for the collapse of the Soviet Union. You will debate with other groups, arguing that your assigned cause was the most important.
In your table group, divide the reading load into the 3 separate documents. If you finish early, read the next document.
YOUR ACTUAL OPINION: Which of these problems do you think will play the biggest role in the collapse of the Soviet Union? WHY?
COLLECT HW
VIDEO (Time remaining): “People’s Century” Episode 25. At around 25- 38:53 minutes (stop after Czech government resigns
HW: Study for Quiz
In order to ensure a successful society, which is more important—economic freedom or political freedom?
Could the collapse of the Soviet Union have been avoided? Why or why not?
Monday 5/20: Soviet Economic Collapse
Cars and Candy Activity
LECTURE: First few slides
HW: Study for Practice Quiz. Block Day
HW: "Cracks in the Soviet Union" packet (Due Block Day)
Tuesday, 5/21: Finish Lecture on Soviet Collapse + Video.
LECTURE: Finish
VIDEO: “People’s Century” Episode 25. Minutes 3:20-14:45 (from Red Square parade to end of off-brand Beatles song). Look for examples of the Soviet Union's and the USA's "soft power" and be ready to discuss them.
DEBRIEF: What "soft power" did the Soviet Union have? How about the USA?
HW: Study for Practice Quiz. Block Day
HW: "Cracks in the Soviet Union" packet (Due Block Day)
Block Day 5/22-5/23: Practice Quiz + VIDEO
QUICK DEBATE: Which cause was the MOST IMPORTANT reason why the Soviet Union collapsed?
Using your notes, your HW, the video and the DBQ discuss the importance of the following causes for the collapse of the Soviet Union. You will debate with other groups, arguing that your assigned cause was the most important.
In your table group, divide the reading load into the 3 separate documents. If you finish early, read the next document.
- Environmental Problems
- Losing the war in Afghanistan
- Soft Power (what makes a country attractive to foreigners; think Hollywood movies rather than tanks)
- The failing command economy = Daily Life Struggles.
- 15 minutes quiet reading and thinking about the debate question: Which cause was the MOST IMPORTANT reason why the Soviet Union collapsed?
- 15 minutes partner/share about main arguments for each factor being the most important.
- Debate: Break class into 4 teams/themes and use cards to pick the first to go, then allow counters.
YOUR ACTUAL OPINION: Which of these problems do you think will play the biggest role in the collapse of the Soviet Union? WHY?
COLLECT HW
VIDEO (Time remaining): “People’s Century” Episode 25. At around 25- 38:53 minutes (stop after Czech government resigns
HW: Study for Quiz
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Friday, 5/24: Quiz + Reading
Tuesday 5/28: “Putin’s Revenge”
Block Day 5/29-5/30: Finish “Putin’s Revenge” + Start S2 Review Project
RESEARCH: Put together a Google Doc with your research and sources. PUT YOUR NAME ON YOUR WORK. Get a “thumbs up” from Mr. Butkevich, then you can start making the presentation.
3x5 Slide Show (see rubric)
Parts of the presentation:
Russia—Possible Research Topics:
A. Aggression in the Donbass and Crimea.
B. Support for Syrian government.
2. China: Foreign Policy.
2A Taiwan: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_L_QrDhgqM
Search Terms: “One China” policy, China pressuring countries not to recognize Taiwan (Panama, Burkina Faso, Gambia), China pressuring companies not to recognize Taiwan (Mariott, airlines), US 7th Fleet, Taiwan Relations Act, Century of Humiliation.
2B South China Sea Dispute:
Sources:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypMCK7NcbxU&index=6&list=PLfxy4_sBQdxy3A2lvl-y3qWTeJEbC_QCp
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luTPMHC7zHY
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/global-opinions/wp/2018/06/05/china-is-alone-at-sea-that-means-the-u-s-has-the-advantage/?utm_term=.7af26f970251
Search Terms: Nine-dash line, Century of Humiliation, Freedom of Navigation Operation (FONOP), US 7th Fleet.
2C Belt and Road Initiative (AKA, One Belt, One Road): This topic requires that you explain the pros and cons for China. The pros are obvious, but many of these countries are unstable, poor and have large numbers of increasingly anti-Chinese locals.
In addition, you should compare/contrast Belt and Road with the TPP, President Obama’s attempt to create a pro-American alliance in Asia against China. President Trump withdrew the USA from the TPP in 2017.
Resources: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvXROXiIpvQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4juvjcRfChM
“How China Got Sri Lanka to Cough Up a Port” https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/25/world/asia/china-sri-lanka-port.html
Search Terms: Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), Century of Humiliation, debt trap diplomacy, China in Africa (Kenya’s Standard Gauge Railway is one of many examples), canceled projects in Myanmar after anti-Chinese protests, .
3. China: Domestic Policy—Is China going back to Mao’s totalitarianism? Resources: “Is Xi the new Mao?”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LiFyhbfvwg
“China’s Orwellian War on Religion: ‘Concentration camps’, electronic surveillance and persecution are used to repress millions of people of faith.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/22/opinion/china-religion-human-rights.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage
“Spend “frivolously and be penalized under China’s new social credit system” Vox.com https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2018/11/2/18057450/china-social-credit-score-spend-frivolously-video-games
“China’s Brutal Crackdown on the Uyghur Muslim Minority, Explained” (tons of links to credible sources) https://www.vox.com/2018/8/15/17684226/uighur-china-camps-united-nations
First Detention, Now Demolition: China Remakes Its Muslim Region
https://youtu.be/6sUEek-u14w
Slide show and video on Xinjiang Police State: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/04/04/world/asia/xinjiang-china-surveillance-prison.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage
“China has Turned Xinjiang into a Police State Like no Other” https://www.economist.com/briefing/2018/05/31/china-has-turned-xinjiang-into-a-police-state-like-no-other
Search Terms: Xi planning to serve more than normal 10 year term, Xi Jinping Thought put into the Constitution, social credit system, Great Firewall of China (Internet censorship), Cult of Personality, crackdown on religious minorities (Uyghur Muslims in Xinjiang [including a new massive network of “re-education” camps], Tibetan Buddhists).
4. Non-violent resistance. Is it more effective than violent resistance? Go deeper on 1-2 case studies after Gandhi’s time to see if his ideas are still relevant. Resources:
https://foreignpolicy.com/2011/08/24/think-again-nonviolent-resistance/
http://foreignpolicy.com/2015/11/17/what-is-the-breaking-point-for-non-violent-resistance/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJSehRlU34w&feature=youtu.be
Mr. Butkevich has some excerpts + tables from Chenoweth’s book.
Search Terms: People Power Philippines (1986), Nelson Mandela (South Africa), etc.
5. Stay frosty, everything is going to be OK. This is slightly off topic, but past students have found it an enjoyable project. For the historical slides, you can tie in the Cold War, the Enlightenment, the Scientific Revolution, Mao’s irrationality vs. Deng’s successes and other topics you find interesting.
Resources: https://youtu.be/yCm9Ng0bbEQ
Hans Rosling's 200 Countries, 200 Years, 4 Minutes - The Joy of Stats - BBC Four
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbkSRLYSojo
https://ourworldindata.org (search for poverty, war and peace, violence, etc.)
Steven Pinker’s TED talk (https://www.ted.com/talks/steven_pinker_on_the_myth_of_violence?language=en ) and reviews of his books “Enlightenment Now” + “The Better Angels of Our Nature” I don’t expect you to read these books, but there are several interviews and articles about his ideas. Find out and present his most persuasive ideas/stats/graphs to the class. Be ready for counter-arguments!
6. India/Pakistan dispute. This covers concepts from two units—Gandhi and MAD.
Resources:
The TUHSD portal has an app called SIRS Issues Researcher which has a lot of credible sources. Go to “World Cultures and Politics” on the bottom of the menu and under “World Conflicts” you’ll see “Jammu and Kashmir”. Hopefully, your student log on will work. If not, see Mr. Butkevich and he can print some stuff for you.
Latest Crisis: “Pakistan says wants peace with India, Modi responds after victory speech” https://www.reuters.com/article/us-india-election-pakistan/pakistan-says-wants-peace-with-india-modi-responds-after-victory-speech-idUSKCN1ST0LW
Pakistan vs. India military capabilities: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_WCR2lKstU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_WCR2lKstU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rmUiLwy7kI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwiBGsfueS8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxjytJcLlIc
Search Terms: Kashmir conflict, Siachen glacier, Kargil, 2008 Mumbai attacks, Hindutva and the BJP (India’s ruling party).
Tuesday 5/28: “Putin’s Revenge”
Block Day 5/29-5/30: Finish “Putin’s Revenge” + Start S2 Review Project
RESEARCH: Put together a Google Doc with your research and sources. PUT YOUR NAME ON YOUR WORK. Get a “thumbs up” from Mr. Butkevich, then you can start making the presentation.
- 1 page of notes (bullet points OK) per student. Put your name on it.
- 5 CREDIBLE sources from each student.
3x5 Slide Show (see rubric)
Parts of the presentation:
- Historical Background: Explain the connection between the current problem and what you have learned in this class.
- The Players + Motivations: Who are the important actors in this issue and what are they doing? What motivates them?
- So what? Why should the audience care about this issue?
Russia—Possible Research Topics:
A. Aggression in the Donbass and Crimea.
B. Support for Syrian government.
- C. Election interference + support for anti-immigrant parties in Europe.
- https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-danger-of-russian-disinformation/2016/05/06/b31d9718-12d5-11e6-8967-7ac733c56f12_story.html?utm_term=.6000624e2791
- https://www.nato.int/docu/review/2016/also-in-2016/lisa-case-germany-target-russian-disinformation/EN/index.htm
- https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/french-president-macron-blasts-russian-state-run-media-as-propaganda/2017/05/29/4e758308-4479-11e7-8de1-cec59a9bf4b1_story.html?utm_term=.5542fa7f06d0
- http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-39478066
- https://www.ft.com/content/010eec62-30b5-11e7-9555-23ef563ecf9a
- https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/01/us/politics/russia-2016-election-facebook.html
2. China: Foreign Policy.
2A Taiwan: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_L_QrDhgqM
Search Terms: “One China” policy, China pressuring countries not to recognize Taiwan (Panama, Burkina Faso, Gambia), China pressuring companies not to recognize Taiwan (Mariott, airlines), US 7th Fleet, Taiwan Relations Act, Century of Humiliation.
2B South China Sea Dispute:
Sources:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypMCK7NcbxU&index=6&list=PLfxy4_sBQdxy3A2lvl-y3qWTeJEbC_QCp
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luTPMHC7zHY
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/global-opinions/wp/2018/06/05/china-is-alone-at-sea-that-means-the-u-s-has-the-advantage/?utm_term=.7af26f970251
Search Terms: Nine-dash line, Century of Humiliation, Freedom of Navigation Operation (FONOP), US 7th Fleet.
2C Belt and Road Initiative (AKA, One Belt, One Road): This topic requires that you explain the pros and cons for China. The pros are obvious, but many of these countries are unstable, poor and have large numbers of increasingly anti-Chinese locals.
In addition, you should compare/contrast Belt and Road with the TPP, President Obama’s attempt to create a pro-American alliance in Asia against China. President Trump withdrew the USA from the TPP in 2017.
Resources: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvXROXiIpvQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4juvjcRfChM
“How China Got Sri Lanka to Cough Up a Port” https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/25/world/asia/china-sri-lanka-port.html
Search Terms: Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), Century of Humiliation, debt trap diplomacy, China in Africa (Kenya’s Standard Gauge Railway is one of many examples), canceled projects in Myanmar after anti-Chinese protests, .
3. China: Domestic Policy—Is China going back to Mao’s totalitarianism? Resources: “Is Xi the new Mao?”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LiFyhbfvwg
“China’s Orwellian War on Religion: ‘Concentration camps’, electronic surveillance and persecution are used to repress millions of people of faith.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/22/opinion/china-religion-human-rights.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage
“Spend “frivolously and be penalized under China’s new social credit system” Vox.com https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2018/11/2/18057450/china-social-credit-score-spend-frivolously-video-games
“China’s Brutal Crackdown on the Uyghur Muslim Minority, Explained” (tons of links to credible sources) https://www.vox.com/2018/8/15/17684226/uighur-china-camps-united-nations
First Detention, Now Demolition: China Remakes Its Muslim Region
https://youtu.be/6sUEek-u14w
Slide show and video on Xinjiang Police State: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/04/04/world/asia/xinjiang-china-surveillance-prison.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage
“China has Turned Xinjiang into a Police State Like no Other” https://www.economist.com/briefing/2018/05/31/china-has-turned-xinjiang-into-a-police-state-like-no-other
Search Terms: Xi planning to serve more than normal 10 year term, Xi Jinping Thought put into the Constitution, social credit system, Great Firewall of China (Internet censorship), Cult of Personality, crackdown on religious minorities (Uyghur Muslims in Xinjiang [including a new massive network of “re-education” camps], Tibetan Buddhists).
4. Non-violent resistance. Is it more effective than violent resistance? Go deeper on 1-2 case studies after Gandhi’s time to see if his ideas are still relevant. Resources:
https://foreignpolicy.com/2011/08/24/think-again-nonviolent-resistance/
http://foreignpolicy.com/2015/11/17/what-is-the-breaking-point-for-non-violent-resistance/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJSehRlU34w&feature=youtu.be
Mr. Butkevich has some excerpts + tables from Chenoweth’s book.
Search Terms: People Power Philippines (1986), Nelson Mandela (South Africa), etc.
5. Stay frosty, everything is going to be OK. This is slightly off topic, but past students have found it an enjoyable project. For the historical slides, you can tie in the Cold War, the Enlightenment, the Scientific Revolution, Mao’s irrationality vs. Deng’s successes and other topics you find interesting.
Resources: https://youtu.be/yCm9Ng0bbEQ
Hans Rosling's 200 Countries, 200 Years, 4 Minutes - The Joy of Stats - BBC Four
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbkSRLYSojo
https://ourworldindata.org (search for poverty, war and peace, violence, etc.)
Steven Pinker’s TED talk (https://www.ted.com/talks/steven_pinker_on_the_myth_of_violence?language=en ) and reviews of his books “Enlightenment Now” + “The Better Angels of Our Nature” I don’t expect you to read these books, but there are several interviews and articles about his ideas. Find out and present his most persuasive ideas/stats/graphs to the class. Be ready for counter-arguments!
6. India/Pakistan dispute. This covers concepts from two units—Gandhi and MAD.
Resources:
The TUHSD portal has an app called SIRS Issues Researcher which has a lot of credible sources. Go to “World Cultures and Politics” on the bottom of the menu and under “World Conflicts” you’ll see “Jammu and Kashmir”. Hopefully, your student log on will work. If not, see Mr. Butkevich and he can print some stuff for you.
Latest Crisis: “Pakistan says wants peace with India, Modi responds after victory speech” https://www.reuters.com/article/us-india-election-pakistan/pakistan-says-wants-peace-with-india-modi-responds-after-victory-speech-idUSKCN1ST0LW
Pakistan vs. India military capabilities: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_WCR2lKstU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_WCR2lKstU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rmUiLwy7kI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwiBGsfueS8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxjytJcLlIc
Search Terms: Kashmir conflict, Siachen glacier, Kargil, 2008 Mumbai attacks, Hindutva and the BJP (India’s ruling party).
Release the Final!!!!
Friday 5/31: Go Over Final Exam + Work on project
HW: BRING YOUR TEXT BOOK TO CLASS ON MONDAY
Monday, 6/3: S2 Review + Textbook Return + Work on Project
DUE: Textbook return.
PARTNER/SHARE: (10)—Each table prepare a quick presentation on your slide.
Audience take notes. If you instead prefer to quietly work on your project or outline/notes for the final, you can.
Tuesday, 6/4: S2 Review + Work on Project
Wednesday, 6/5 (Normal Schedule) S2 Review + Work on Project
Block (Thursday is Wed Block/Friday is Thursday Block—6/6-6/7): Presentations + Finish Review
FINAL: Go over questions, practice outlines. What sort of information am I looking for to answer these questions?
HW: BRING YOUR TEXT BOOK TO CLASS ON MONDAY
Monday, 6/3: S2 Review + Textbook Return + Work on Project
DUE: Textbook return.
PARTNER/SHARE: (10)—Each table prepare a quick presentation on your slide.
- Define key vocabulary on the board.
- Narrate the story for the class.
- Why did it happen, how did it happen, why is it important?
Audience take notes. If you instead prefer to quietly work on your project or outline/notes for the final, you can.
Tuesday, 6/4: S2 Review + Work on Project
Wednesday, 6/5 (Normal Schedule) S2 Review + Work on Project
Block (Thursday is Wed Block/Friday is Thursday Block—6/6-6/7): Presentations + Finish Review
FINAL: Go over questions, practice outlines. What sort of information am I looking for to answer these questions?
Have a great summer!
