Los Angeles Unified School District Harbor Teacher Preparation Academy 1111 Figueroa Place Wilmington, CA 90744-2311 Fax (310)834-4194 Phone (310)834-3932 Mr. Groven’s Email:
Welcome to the History of Modern Europe!
This year we will be surveying history on either end of the historical timeline. Last semester we surveyed the beginnings of Western Society in Ancient History looking at the Greeks and Romans. This semester we will be leaping to the other end of the spectrum of history – surveying modern Europe. In terms of our text book History of Western Society, first semester we ruminated over roughly the first six chapters of the text book and second semester we will analyze approximately the last six chapters of the text book. Moreover, historians define modern European history from the French Revolution to the present, however since we have only one semester to survey modern European history we will be narrowing down the traditional perimeters of Modern European history to the 20th and 21st centuries. So that we do not repeat World History from last year, we will be examining Modern Europe not from the perspective of Western Europe, but from the perspective of Eastern Europe - the Soviet Union.
Our objectives will not only to understand the history of the Soviet Union, but to gain historical skills that we can use later in our educational careers. Many of these skills we have already tried to develop and others will be new. This semester we will develop our historical skills through warm ups, Cornell notes, outlining the text book, reading quizzes, reading primary documents and political cartoons, studding geography, group projects, presentations and chapter tests in the form of in class essays and IDs.
Reading Outline and Quiz Schedule:
Revolution in Energy and Industry
Capital and Labor (pgs 740-750)
Ideologies and Upheavals, 1815-1850
Radical Ideas and Early Socialism, (pgs 761-766)
The Age of Nationalism
The Modernization of Russia, (pgs 835-838)
Marxism and the Socialist Movement, (pgs 846-850)
The Great Break: War and Revolution
The First World War, pgs (887-900)
The Russian Revolution, pgs (904-910)
The Peace Settlement, pgs (911-916)
The Age of Anxiety
The Search for Peace and Stablity (pgs 937-942)
The Great Depression (pgs 942-948)
Dictatorships and the Second World War
Authoritarian States, pgs 953-957
Stalin’s Soviet Union, pgs 957-963
Mussolini and Fascism in Italy, pgs 964-966
Hitler and Nazism in Germany, pgs 966-971
Nazi Expansion and the Second World War, pgs 971-984
Cold War Conflicts and Social Transformations, 1945-1985
The Division of Europe, pgs 989-993
The Western Renaissance, 1945-1968, pgs 993-1003
Soviet Eastern Europe, 1945-1968, pgs 1003-1007
Postwar Social Transformation, 1945-1968, pgs 1007-1014
Conflict and Challenge in the Late Cold War, 1968-1985, pgs 1014-1022
Revolution, Rebuilding, and New Challenges: 1985 to the Present
The Decline of Communism in Eastern Europe (pgs 1027-1034)
The Revolutions of 1989 (pgs 1034-1040)
Building a New Europe in the 1990s (pgs 1040-1051)
New Challenges in the Twenty-first Century and The Future in Perspective (pgs 1051-1060)
Supplemental Textbooks
To further our understanding of how much the founding of communism impacted the West and created a bipolar world, we will be reading the short novel Animal Farm by George Orwell. Orwell wrote an allegory of the first half of Soviet history in Russia and it became a hit in the West as people grasped the critical mistakes in communism.
Mr. Groven’s Webpage
Mr. Groven maintains a web page at http://mrgroven.wikispaces.com/ for all his classes. All students receive one copy of papers in class. If you lose a copy of your handouts, need additional copy of your maps, or other project papers, please download/print them from Mr. Groven’s web page at home.
Grades and Late Work
Grades are based on an accumulation of points. Thus, the better you do on each assignment and the more assignments you complete the better your grade will be! If you don’t do some assignments, you grade will fall very quickly. Following LAUSD’s guidelines, the letter grade D has been eliminated and thus all grades below 70% will be a failing grade. The grading scale is as follows:
A 100%-90
B 89%-80%
C 79%-70%
F Below 69%
Late/Absent Work
Late work is accepted until the next test is given. After that all previous work can not be turned in. Late work may be turned in for 60% of its. Late work needs to be handed to Mr. Groven with LATE written on it at the top! Absent work is also handed to Mr. Groven with ABSENT written on it! This is NOT to be handed to Mr. Groven in the middle of notes, presentations, SSR, videos, etc. The best time to hand in late and absent work is before class or after class. Do NOT randomly toss late or absent work on Mr. Groven’s desk. This is the easiest way for papers to get lost and receive a zero!
Required Materials
The following items will be checked on the second day of class:
Blue or Black pen (only) and a #2 pencil
Eraser
Red Pen
Highlighter
Loose leaf notebook paper
A three ring binder.
§ If your AVID teacher requires one large binder for all subjects you may use that binder for this class. However your History section must be subdivided into 6 parts: warm ups, notes, tests/quizzes, class work, homework and vocabulary lists. Your AVID binder needs to be brought to this class every class meeting.
§ If your AVID teacher does NOT require one large binder for all subjects, you must have a 1 inch binder just for this class. Your History binder must be divided into 6 sections: warm ups, notes, tests, class work, homework and vocabulary lists. Your history binder needs to be brought to this class every class meeting.
Class Rules
· Adhere to Harbor Teacher’s Preparatory Academy’s code of conduct.
· No food in the classroom, at any time.
· Hats may not be worn in class or they will go to the Wishing Field.
· Students are to sit in their assigned seat, ready to work at the beginning of class.
· Respect each other - no name calling, profanity, sniping or backbiting.
· Respect the classroom – please use the student staplers, three hole punchers, tape dispensers at appropriate times, place books left on the floor in the book racks and pick up any trash left in the classroom.
· If ipods, ipads, androids, MP3 players, cell phones are used in class or hats are worn in class they will be sent to the Wishing Field.
· At the end of the period, all students are to remain in their assigned seats, until Mr. Groven dismisses the class.
· Each student has three passes to the restroom for the semester. So use your passes wisely.
Attendance and Tardiness
This class is a step up from the Ancient Civilization course and will require more work and better attendance. Missing one day of class is equal to missing two days due to block scheduling. Concerning tardiness the following procedures will be followed (per semester).
1st tardy = warning
2nd tardy = call home/email home
3rd tardy = parent conference
4th tardy = detention (U in citizenship)
Movies/Video Clips
Occasionally we will view a video clip that may come from a PG, PG-13 or R rated movie. These will be chosen with the utmost care for their historical significance to illustrate a lesson.
Assignment Workshop
Students who have earned a C minus or lower for a grade by the end of the 5, 10 or 15 week grading periods will be given Assignment Workshop. Students will have to attend Assignment Workshop once a week for an hour until the next grading period. Students are to complete their homework and study in Assignment Workshop. If students fail to attend Assignment Workshop a detention will be issued.
Academic Integrity
If a student is caught cheating (plagiarism) the following will happen as a consequence: 1) receive a zero on the assignment, 2) receive a lecture on academic integrity 3) given a cheater letter to take home to be signed and 4) Mr. Groven will not write a college letter of recommendation
January 8, 2015
Dear ______,
I am writing this letter because I am having trouble succeeding in Modern European History. I have been feeling the pressure to succeed so much that I chose to plagiarize/cheat my ______assignment. I chose to copy my assignment from ______. I realize that plagiarism is wrong and that some academic institutions will not only place a mark of plagiarism in my permanent record, but ask me leave the academic institution. I also know that Mr. Groven will not write a college letter of recommendation for me because I cheated.
Please sign this letter acknowledging that you will help me succeed in Modern European History without cheating. I know you have raised me to have more integrity and honor than I have displayed.
Sincerely,
______
Parent Signature
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Dear Mr. Groven,
I have read and discussed the course description with my son/daughter for the Modern European History class. I understand your expectations for the course and will support my son/daughter in their course work.
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