|
|
|
This assignment list covers all HW assignments for the month of May. Please make sure that you are paying attention to DUE dates as you read.
HW 61 Due on Jupiter: Monday 5/18
Read: Chapter 35 section 4
Task: Cornell Notes
HW 60 Due on Jupiter: Wednesday 5/13
Read: Chapter 35 section 3
Task: Cornell Notes
HW 59 Due on Jupiter: Monday 5/11
Read: Chapter 35 section 2
Task: Cornell Notes
Optional Read: End of Apartheid in South Africa? Not in economic Terms
Political liberation has yet to translate into material gains for blacks. As one woman said, “I’ve gone from a shack to a shack.”
HW 58 Due on Jupiter: Thursday 5/7
Read: Chapter 35 section 1
Task: Cornell Notes
This assignment list covers all HW assignments for the month of April. Please make sure that you are paying attention to DUE dates as you read.
HW 57 Due on Jupiter: Wednesday 4/29
Read: Chapter 34 section 5
Task: Cornell Notes Section Assessment question 4, 6, 7
Optional Podcast: Interview with President Jimmy Carter: Camp David Accords
Former President Jimmy Carter looks back on his work forging the Camp David Accords. Learn more about international negotiation in this podcast from HowStuffWorks.com.
HW 56 Due on Jupiter: Monday 4/27
Read: Chapter 34 section 4
Task: Cornell Notes Section Assessment question 6
HW 55 Due on Jupiter Thursday 4/23
Read: Chapter 34 section 3
Task: Cornell Notes Section Assessment questions 4-6
Optional Read: ‘Muslims Are Foreigners’: Inside India’s Campaign to Decide Who Is a Citizen
Tribunal members in the state of Assam say they felt pressured to declare Muslims noncitizens as the government seeks to expel illegal migrants. Some politicians have vowed to take the process nationwide.
HW 54 Due on Jupiter: Monday 4/20
Read: Chapter 34 section 1
Task: Cornell Notes
HW 53 Due on Jupiter: Wednesday 4/8
Read: Chapter 33 section 5
Task: Cornell Notes
HW 52 Due on Jupiter: Friday 4/3
Read: Chapter 33 section 4
Task: Cornell Notes + Section Assessment questions 6, 7, 8
Optional Read: PHOTOS: Inside A North Korea That Is Changing — But At Its Own Pace
NPR journalists Mary Louise Kelly and Becky Sullivan and freelance photographer David Guttenfelder were among the some 150 foreign reporters who visited North Korea last month, at the invitation of the government, to cover celebrations commemorating the 70th anniversary of the founding of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. Guttenfelder has taken nearly 40 reporting trips to the isolated country since 2000.
Optional Read: The girl in the picture: Kim Phuc's journey from war to forgiveness
Even without the benefit of context, the image of a naked 9-year-old girl running for her life is as searing and indelible today as it was 43 years ago.
HW 51 Due on Jupiter: Wednesday 4/1
Read: Chapter 33 section 3
Task: Cornell Notes + Section Assessment questions 3, 6, 7
This assignment list covers all HW assignments for the month of March. Please make sure that you are paying attention to DUE dates as you read.
HW 50 Due on Jupiter: Monday 3/30
Read: Excerpt from The Red Azalea (located above) Red Azalea is a memoir of Chinese American writer Anchee Min. It was written during the first eight years she spent in the United States, from 1984 to 1992, and tells the story of her personal experience during the Cultural Revolution. Note: Since Ms. Firdman wanted you to be able to read certain excerpts, the PDF jumps from one story to another so be mindful of the pages. Second point is, the author decided to translate names (such as "Autumn Leaves" rather than to transliterate Chinese names in English letters.
Task: You may choose to either answer questions 1-5 (3-4 sentences) OR Answer Prompt #6 (approximately 1 page response)
Optional Read: A Photographer's Quest to Reverse China's Historical Amnesia
The photographer Li Zhensheng is on a mission to make his fellow Chinese remember one of the most turbulent chapters in modern Chinese history that the ruling Communist Party is increasingly determined to whitewash. “The whole world knows what happened during the Cultural Revolution,” Mr. Li said. “Only China doesn’t know. So many people have no idea.”
**WWII Take Home Test postponed to Monday 3/30/20***
HW 49 Due on Jupiter: Wednesday 3/25
Read: Chapter 33 section 2
Task: Cornell Notes
HW 48 Due on Jupiter: Tuesday 3/24
Read: Chapter 30 section 3 *please pay attention to the chapter number*
Task: Cornell Notes
Optional Read: You (and Almost Everyone You Know) Owe Your Life to This Man.
Temperament matters. Especially when nuclear weapons are involved and you don’t—you can’t—know what the enemy is up to, and you’re scared. Then it helps (it helps a lot) to be calm.
Optional podcast: Three Nuclear Close Calls
There have been many moments in history when the world came perilously close to a full-scale nuclear war, due to false alarms or miscommunication. One such moment is the only known time that a head of state has activated their nuclear briefcase.
HW 47 Due on Jupiter: Monday 3/23
Read: Chapter 33 section 1
Task: Cornell Notes + Section Assessment questions 3- 5
WWII Take Home Test Due to Turnitin.com by 11:59pm on Friday 3/27
Optional Read: Stories of Women Who Rescued Jews During the Holocaust
A little over half of the Righteous Among the Nations recognized by Yad Vashem are women. While many of them acted in cooperation with other family members, some of these courageous women were the initiators of the rescue and acted independently to save Jews. Here are some of their stories.
Optional Read: This Picture Tells a Tragic Story of What Happened to Women After D-Day
They called it the épuration sauvage, the wild purge, because it was spontaneous and unofficial. But, yes, it was savage, too. In the weeks and months following the D-Day landings of June 6, 1944, Allied troops and the resistance swept across France liberating towns and villages, and unleashing a flood of collective euphoria, relief and hope. And then the punishments began.
HW 46 Due: Friday 3/13
Read: Chapter 32 section 5
Task: Cornell Notes Section Assessment questions 4 & 5
Optional Read: Human exhibits and sterilization: The fate of Afro Germans under Nazis
In 1937, mixed race children living in the Rhineland were tracked down by the Gestapo and sterilized on "secret order." Some were later the subject of medical experiments, while others vanished
Optional Podcast: The Night Witches
The Night Witches were an all-female bombing regiment in the Soviet Air Force. Flying biplanes meant for dusting crops and training new recruits, they dropped 23,000 tons of bombs on German forces in WWII.
HW 45 Due: Wednesday 3/11
Read: Accounts from survivors of Auschwitz and Bergen Belson (Accounts from prisoners, located above). Begin reading where you see document 49 by Ruth Kluger and continue on to document 50 by Hanna Levy-Hass.
Task: For document 49 reflect on this phrase the author uses, "lucky accident". (approximately 400 words) There is no prompt for document 50, just reflect (approximately 400 words)
Note: While this reading give us, as students of history, an invaluable account and perspective on the concentration camp system under the Nazi regime, it does contain sensitive and upsetting content, please reach out to me if you are having difficulty with the assignment.
HW 44 Due: Monday 3/9
Read: Excerpt from Holocaust Memoir (located above)
Task: You may choose to either answer questions 1-6 (3-4 sentences) OR Answer Prompt #7 (approximately 1 page response)
Optional read: Poland's new 'Holocaust Law' comes up against massacre of Jews in 1941
HW 43 Due: Friday 3/6
Read: Chapter 32 section 3
Task: Cornell Notes
Optional Podcast: The Ghost Army During WWII, the U.S. Army formed a top-secret military unit with one goal: Use artistic and theatrical skills to confuse the enemy. The 23rd Headquarters Special Troops turned their creativity into incredible strategic trickery.
Optional Podcast: The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare, Part 1, The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare, Part 2
After the Germans invaded France in 1940, an idea sprouted in the highest levels of Great Britain's leadership. From that idea, the Special Operations Executive was born. And in many ways, it changed the way wars were fought forever.
HW 42 Due: Wednesday 3/4
Read: Chapter 32 section 2
Task: Cornell Notes + Section Assessment questions 5 & 8
Optional Read: Keep calm: The story behind the UK's most famous poster design
Optional Podcast: St. Paul's Watch and the London Blitz Saint Paul's Cathedral stands on the site of four previous churches, the earliest of which dates back to 604. When German forces bombed London in World War II, Churchill formed a group to protect the ancient church. Tune in to learn what happened next.
HW 41 Due: Monday 3/2
Read: Chapter 32 section 1
Task: Cornell Notes + Section Assessment questions 5 &6
This assignment list covers all HW assignments for the month of January/February. Please make sure that you are paying attention to DUE dates as you read.
Unit 9: Interwar- Militarism Test on Friday 2/28 (Study Guide Extra Credit Due)
HW 40 Due: Tuesday 2/25
Task: Create a political cartoon that demonstrates the concept of appeasement. The image must be your own and cannot be copied from online sources. On the back of the political cartoon, write two paragraphs in which you: explain what is happening in your political cartoon, explain the symbolism behind your choice to include certain objects imagery, explain how it exemplifies appeasement. A good way to decide what to draw is to look over your notes. What event stands out to you? What symbols can you utilize? What is the purpose of your political cartoon? Who is your intended audience? Try to summarize the main point of your cartoon before you begin drawing
Optional Extra Credit: On Tuesday 2/25, a Holocaust survivor will be speaking in Lecture Hall A during period 10. Although we have not yet studied the Holocaust, we have discussed the rise of the Nazi party and their platform and message, a large part of which was rooted in antisemitism. For extra credit, attend the event, then write a one page (single spaced if typing) reflection. Your reflection should avoid being summative and should focus on thinking deeply about the speakers experience and the content we have covered in class. Write up due the next day.
HW 39 Due: Thursday 2/13
Read: The selections from "Facing History: antisemitism, eugenics, and homophobia" located above
Task: Complete each of the sections' connecting questions. Please make sure to write in complete sentences and to be thorough
Optional Podcast: Picasso's Guernica
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Pablo Picasso's Guernica, which he painted in 1937 soon after the bombing of that Basque town in the Spanish Civil War, and its wider context.
HW 38 Due : Tuesday 2/11
Read: Chapter 31 section 4
Task: Cornell Notes + Section Assessment question 3
Unit 8 Test: Russian Revolution and Stalin on Friday 2/7 (Study Guide Extra Credit Due)
HW 37 Due : Thursday 2/6
Read: Chapter 31 section 3
Task: Cornell Notes + Section Assessment questions 3,4, 5
Optional podcast: Hitler's Early Rise and the Night of Long Knives
Over the course of several days in 1934, Adolf Hitler, who was at the time the Nazi Party Leader and Reich Chancellor, directed an action which eliminated all of his political enemies and enabled him to declare himself Fuhrer.
Optional podcast: The Nazi Games and Jesse Owens
Most people associate the 1936 Berlin Olympics with African-American sprinter Jesse Owens. Yet the games were successful in terms of Nazi propaganda: More nations than ever participated, and the Olympic torch was used for the first time.
HW 36 Due : Tuesday 2/4
Read: Chapter 31 section 2
Task: Cornell Notes + Section Assessment questions 3,4, 6
Optional Podcast: 'Red Famine' Revisits Stalin's Brutal Campaign to Starve The Peasantry in Ukraine
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Anne Applebaum explains how Stalin killed millions in the '30s by orchestrating a famine to suppress the nationalist movement and strengthen Russian influence in Ukraine.
Optional Read: Russia Exerts Growing Influence in Africa, Many Worry in the West
The Kremlin is increasing arms sales, security pacts and training programs as the American defense secretary weighs withdrawing troops from the continent.
HW 35 Due : Friday 1/31
Read: Gulags.Soviet Prison Camps (located above)
Task: Answer questions A-E on page 12 of the reading
Optional Read: My Friend, Stalin’s Daughter
In a childhood game, she would issue orders to her father. He’d answer, “I obey.”
HW 34 Due: Thursday 1/30
Read: "Stalin as a symbol" (located above)
Task: After reading the except, write about one page (single-space if typing) explaining how Stalin carefully formulated an image of himself and what that image was. What were the different tactics he used? Why may he have been so successful? Use evidence and examples from the reading to support your claims, avoid quoting, paraphrase please. At the top of your homework, include a one sentence thesis statement that answers the question; in what ways was Stalin a symbol for the Soviet people?
HW 61 Due on Jupiter: Monday 5/18
Read: Chapter 35 section 4
Task: Cornell Notes
HW 60 Due on Jupiter: Wednesday 5/13
Read: Chapter 35 section 3
Task: Cornell Notes
HW 59 Due on Jupiter: Monday 5/11
Read: Chapter 35 section 2
Task: Cornell Notes
Optional Read: End of Apartheid in South Africa? Not in economic Terms
Political liberation has yet to translate into material gains for blacks. As one woman said, “I’ve gone from a shack to a shack.”
HW 58 Due on Jupiter: Thursday 5/7
Read: Chapter 35 section 1
Task: Cornell Notes
This assignment list covers all HW assignments for the month of April. Please make sure that you are paying attention to DUE dates as you read.
HW 57 Due on Jupiter: Wednesday 4/29
Read: Chapter 34 section 5
Task: Cornell Notes Section Assessment question 4, 6, 7
Optional Podcast: Interview with President Jimmy Carter: Camp David Accords
Former President Jimmy Carter looks back on his work forging the Camp David Accords. Learn more about international negotiation in this podcast from HowStuffWorks.com.
HW 56 Due on Jupiter: Monday 4/27
Read: Chapter 34 section 4
Task: Cornell Notes Section Assessment question 6
HW 55 Due on Jupiter Thursday 4/23
Read: Chapter 34 section 3
Task: Cornell Notes Section Assessment questions 4-6
Optional Read: ‘Muslims Are Foreigners’: Inside India’s Campaign to Decide Who Is a Citizen
Tribunal members in the state of Assam say they felt pressured to declare Muslims noncitizens as the government seeks to expel illegal migrants. Some politicians have vowed to take the process nationwide.
HW 54 Due on Jupiter: Monday 4/20
Read: Chapter 34 section 1
Task: Cornell Notes
HW 53 Due on Jupiter: Wednesday 4/8
Read: Chapter 33 section 5
Task: Cornell Notes
HW 52 Due on Jupiter: Friday 4/3
Read: Chapter 33 section 4
Task: Cornell Notes + Section Assessment questions 6, 7, 8
Optional Read: PHOTOS: Inside A North Korea That Is Changing — But At Its Own Pace
NPR journalists Mary Louise Kelly and Becky Sullivan and freelance photographer David Guttenfelder were among the some 150 foreign reporters who visited North Korea last month, at the invitation of the government, to cover celebrations commemorating the 70th anniversary of the founding of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. Guttenfelder has taken nearly 40 reporting trips to the isolated country since 2000.
Optional Read: The girl in the picture: Kim Phuc's journey from war to forgiveness
Even without the benefit of context, the image of a naked 9-year-old girl running for her life is as searing and indelible today as it was 43 years ago.
HW 51 Due on Jupiter: Wednesday 4/1
Read: Chapter 33 section 3
Task: Cornell Notes + Section Assessment questions 3, 6, 7
This assignment list covers all HW assignments for the month of March. Please make sure that you are paying attention to DUE dates as you read.
HW 50 Due on Jupiter: Monday 3/30
Read: Excerpt from The Red Azalea (located above) Red Azalea is a memoir of Chinese American writer Anchee Min. It was written during the first eight years she spent in the United States, from 1984 to 1992, and tells the story of her personal experience during the Cultural Revolution. Note: Since Ms. Firdman wanted you to be able to read certain excerpts, the PDF jumps from one story to another so be mindful of the pages. Second point is, the author decided to translate names (such as "Autumn Leaves" rather than to transliterate Chinese names in English letters.
Task: You may choose to either answer questions 1-5 (3-4 sentences) OR Answer Prompt #6 (approximately 1 page response)
- Why do you think Anchee Min behaved the way she did towards her teacher?
- What was the most interesting part of the authors story?
- What changes does Anchee Min seem to have undergone as a result of her experience?
- What does this story reveal about the impact of the Cultural Revolution on Chinese society?
- Why do you believe Ms. Firdman wanted you to read this memoir?
- Write a letter to Anchee Min after reading the excerpt from her memoir
Optional Read: A Photographer's Quest to Reverse China's Historical Amnesia
The photographer Li Zhensheng is on a mission to make his fellow Chinese remember one of the most turbulent chapters in modern Chinese history that the ruling Communist Party is increasingly determined to whitewash. “The whole world knows what happened during the Cultural Revolution,” Mr. Li said. “Only China doesn’t know. So many people have no idea.”
**WWII Take Home Test postponed to Monday 3/30/20***
HW 49 Due on Jupiter: Wednesday 3/25
Read: Chapter 33 section 2
Task: Cornell Notes
HW 48 Due on Jupiter: Tuesday 3/24
Read: Chapter 30 section 3 *please pay attention to the chapter number*
Task: Cornell Notes
Optional Read: You (and Almost Everyone You Know) Owe Your Life to This Man.
Temperament matters. Especially when nuclear weapons are involved and you don’t—you can’t—know what the enemy is up to, and you’re scared. Then it helps (it helps a lot) to be calm.
Optional podcast: Three Nuclear Close Calls
There have been many moments in history when the world came perilously close to a full-scale nuclear war, due to false alarms or miscommunication. One such moment is the only known time that a head of state has activated their nuclear briefcase.
HW 47 Due on Jupiter: Monday 3/23
Read: Chapter 33 section 1
Task: Cornell Notes + Section Assessment questions 3- 5
WWII Take Home Test Due to Turnitin.com by 11:59pm on Friday 3/27
Optional Read: Stories of Women Who Rescued Jews During the Holocaust
A little over half of the Righteous Among the Nations recognized by Yad Vashem are women. While many of them acted in cooperation with other family members, some of these courageous women were the initiators of the rescue and acted independently to save Jews. Here are some of their stories.
Optional Read: This Picture Tells a Tragic Story of What Happened to Women After D-Day
They called it the épuration sauvage, the wild purge, because it was spontaneous and unofficial. But, yes, it was savage, too. In the weeks and months following the D-Day landings of June 6, 1944, Allied troops and the resistance swept across France liberating towns and villages, and unleashing a flood of collective euphoria, relief and hope. And then the punishments began.
HW 46 Due: Friday 3/13
Read: Chapter 32 section 5
Task: Cornell Notes Section Assessment questions 4 & 5
Optional Read: Human exhibits and sterilization: The fate of Afro Germans under Nazis
In 1937, mixed race children living in the Rhineland were tracked down by the Gestapo and sterilized on "secret order." Some were later the subject of medical experiments, while others vanished
Optional Podcast: The Night Witches
The Night Witches were an all-female bombing regiment in the Soviet Air Force. Flying biplanes meant for dusting crops and training new recruits, they dropped 23,000 tons of bombs on German forces in WWII.
HW 45 Due: Wednesday 3/11
Read: Accounts from survivors of Auschwitz and Bergen Belson (Accounts from prisoners, located above). Begin reading where you see document 49 by Ruth Kluger and continue on to document 50 by Hanna Levy-Hass.
Task: For document 49 reflect on this phrase the author uses, "lucky accident". (approximately 400 words) There is no prompt for document 50, just reflect (approximately 400 words)
Note: While this reading give us, as students of history, an invaluable account and perspective on the concentration camp system under the Nazi regime, it does contain sensitive and upsetting content, please reach out to me if you are having difficulty with the assignment.
HW 44 Due: Monday 3/9
Read: Excerpt from Holocaust Memoir (located above)
Task: You may choose to either answer questions 1-6 (3-4 sentences) OR Answer Prompt #7 (approximately 1 page response)
- What do you think was the most incredible part of Ruth's story?
- Why do you think Ruth's family were they told to get out of their apartment?
- What do you think Ruth's grandparents meant when they said "enough, no more".
- What does this story reveal about human behavior? Refer to specific examples
- What role did non-Jews play in Ruth's life story?
- Why do you feel Ms. Firdman wanted you to read excerpts from this memoir?
- Write a letter to Ruth Pagirsky after reading the excerpt from her memoir.
Optional read: Poland's new 'Holocaust Law' comes up against massacre of Jews in 1941
HW 43 Due: Friday 3/6
Read: Chapter 32 section 3
Task: Cornell Notes
Optional Podcast: The Ghost Army During WWII, the U.S. Army formed a top-secret military unit with one goal: Use artistic and theatrical skills to confuse the enemy. The 23rd Headquarters Special Troops turned their creativity into incredible strategic trickery.
Optional Podcast: The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare, Part 1, The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare, Part 2
After the Germans invaded France in 1940, an idea sprouted in the highest levels of Great Britain's leadership. From that idea, the Special Operations Executive was born. And in many ways, it changed the way wars were fought forever.
HW 42 Due: Wednesday 3/4
Read: Chapter 32 section 2
Task: Cornell Notes + Section Assessment questions 5 & 8
Optional Read: Keep calm: The story behind the UK's most famous poster design
Optional Podcast: St. Paul's Watch and the London Blitz Saint Paul's Cathedral stands on the site of four previous churches, the earliest of which dates back to 604. When German forces bombed London in World War II, Churchill formed a group to protect the ancient church. Tune in to learn what happened next.
HW 41 Due: Monday 3/2
Read: Chapter 32 section 1
Task: Cornell Notes + Section Assessment questions 5 &6
This assignment list covers all HW assignments for the month of January/February. Please make sure that you are paying attention to DUE dates as you read.
Unit 9: Interwar- Militarism Test on Friday 2/28 (Study Guide Extra Credit Due)
HW 40 Due: Tuesday 2/25
Task: Create a political cartoon that demonstrates the concept of appeasement. The image must be your own and cannot be copied from online sources. On the back of the political cartoon, write two paragraphs in which you: explain what is happening in your political cartoon, explain the symbolism behind your choice to include certain objects imagery, explain how it exemplifies appeasement. A good way to decide what to draw is to look over your notes. What event stands out to you? What symbols can you utilize? What is the purpose of your political cartoon? Who is your intended audience? Try to summarize the main point of your cartoon before you begin drawing
Optional Extra Credit: On Tuesday 2/25, a Holocaust survivor will be speaking in Lecture Hall A during period 10. Although we have not yet studied the Holocaust, we have discussed the rise of the Nazi party and their platform and message, a large part of which was rooted in antisemitism. For extra credit, attend the event, then write a one page (single spaced if typing) reflection. Your reflection should avoid being summative and should focus on thinking deeply about the speakers experience and the content we have covered in class. Write up due the next day.
HW 39 Due: Thursday 2/13
Read: The selections from "Facing History: antisemitism, eugenics, and homophobia" located above
Task: Complete each of the sections' connecting questions. Please make sure to write in complete sentences and to be thorough
Optional Podcast: Picasso's Guernica
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Pablo Picasso's Guernica, which he painted in 1937 soon after the bombing of that Basque town in the Spanish Civil War, and its wider context.
HW 38 Due : Tuesday 2/11
Read: Chapter 31 section 4
Task: Cornell Notes + Section Assessment question 3
Unit 8 Test: Russian Revolution and Stalin on Friday 2/7 (Study Guide Extra Credit Due)
HW 37 Due : Thursday 2/6
Read: Chapter 31 section 3
Task: Cornell Notes + Section Assessment questions 3,4, 5
Optional podcast: Hitler's Early Rise and the Night of Long Knives
Over the course of several days in 1934, Adolf Hitler, who was at the time the Nazi Party Leader and Reich Chancellor, directed an action which eliminated all of his political enemies and enabled him to declare himself Fuhrer.
Optional podcast: The Nazi Games and Jesse Owens
Most people associate the 1936 Berlin Olympics with African-American sprinter Jesse Owens. Yet the games were successful in terms of Nazi propaganda: More nations than ever participated, and the Olympic torch was used for the first time.
HW 36 Due : Tuesday 2/4
Read: Chapter 31 section 2
Task: Cornell Notes + Section Assessment questions 3,4, 6
Optional Podcast: 'Red Famine' Revisits Stalin's Brutal Campaign to Starve The Peasantry in Ukraine
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Anne Applebaum explains how Stalin killed millions in the '30s by orchestrating a famine to suppress the nationalist movement and strengthen Russian influence in Ukraine.
Optional Read: Russia Exerts Growing Influence in Africa, Many Worry in the West
The Kremlin is increasing arms sales, security pacts and training programs as the American defense secretary weighs withdrawing troops from the continent.
HW 35 Due : Friday 1/31
Read: Gulags.Soviet Prison Camps (located above)
Task: Answer questions A-E on page 12 of the reading
Optional Read: My Friend, Stalin’s Daughter
In a childhood game, she would issue orders to her father. He’d answer, “I obey.”
HW 34 Due: Thursday 1/30
Read: "Stalin as a symbol" (located above)
Task: After reading the except, write about one page (single-space if typing) explaining how Stalin carefully formulated an image of himself and what that image was. What were the different tactics he used? Why may he have been so successful? Use evidence and examples from the reading to support your claims, avoid quoting, paraphrase please. At the top of your homework, include a one sentence thesis statement that answers the question; in what ways was Stalin a symbol for the Soviet people?