DAY 1

1. DAY 1 • A) Pretend you were alive during the Industrial Revolution. Design a time capsule to be opened in the 21st century. Include 10 items that reveal the changes you experienced with descriptions of how they affected life. • B) Imagine you were living during the 1800s and working as a tour guide in a major city. Plan a tour of that city being realistic and creative. Describe the city and walk us through it, showing the good and the bad the city has to offer. • C) You are a middle class worker during the Industrial Revolution, describe problems and laws you would like to see passed to improve conditions. You are a middle class worker today describe problems and laws you would like to see passed to improve conditions. What are the similarities what are the differences?

2. DAY 2 • A) Imagine you are a reporter for an 1800s magazine and write an advice column telling readers how to act, dress, and speak in middle class society • B) Imagine you are a reporter for an 1800s magazine and write two editorials, one defending and one opposing women’s efforts at social reform • C) Imagine you are a reporter for an 1800s magazine and write an article about the many changes taking place in education • D) Imagine you are a reporter for an 1800s magazine and cover the debate between science and religion • E) Create three pieces of art. One each in the styles of Romanticism, Realism, and Impressionism. Then describe what characteristics each drawing has that makes it that style

3. DAY 3 • A) Create a poster for each of the nations talked about in class (Germany, Italy, Balkan nations, and Russia) depicting national feelings during the era • B) Imagine you are a newspaper editor and write an editorial on events in Germany between 1871 and 1890. One showing support for German policies, another criticizing and showing fear for the future. • C)Write a biography for someone described in Section 3. Include how they rose to power, what were their goals, how did they succeed or fail • D) Create a T-chart comparing the Ottoman and Hapsburg empires

4. DAY 5 • A) The Growth of Democracy in France and Britain puzzle game 88 A-C • B) Write each of the following topics down along with three bullet points: 1) Free trade, 2) campaign against slavery, 3) crime and punishment, 4) working conditions, labor unions and reform, 5) suffrage movement. Bullet point one describe the issue. Bullet point two how was society impacted by the issue. Bullet point three was the issue handled in a positive or negative way, explain • C)Write the following topics down on separate sheets of paper: 1) Napoleon III; The events of 1870-1871 2) Coalition Government and Scandals; The Dreyfus Affair 3)Reforms in France. Describe three or more ways in which each topic affected the people of France and other areas of the world

5. DAY 6 • A) Activity/discussion on Social Darwinism • B) Pretend you are a historian on the Civil War giving a lecture to a group of students about the differences between the North and the South during the Civil War era. Describe the differences between culture, economy, and thoughts • C)Essay: What is slavery? Describe how the following can be considered slaves: a pet, someone who cannot give up a bad habit, a person working a job they hate. Make comparisons on how they are similar to human slavery as well as different

6. DAY 7 • A) Pretend you are an official of each of the following: Egypt, Iran, or the Ottoman empire during the 1800s. Outline problems facing your nation and come up with possible solutions • B) Choose one of the following roles: British diplomat in China, a peasant in the Taiping Rebellion, a sympathizer with the Self-Strengthening Movement, Emperor GuangXu, a participant in the Boxing Rebellion, a member of the imperial court of Ci Xi, a member of the Righteous Harmonious Fists, or Sun Yixian. Write a speech as your character addressing the following: What is the best course of action for China. Be pursuasive! • C) Bumper sticker #1 Create a pro-British sticker against the Chinese in 1839 #2 Create a pro-Chinese sticker against the British in 1839 • D) Create a T-chart that distinguishes between the Britihs and Chinese viewpoints during the Opium Wars

7. DAY 9 • A) Point the Finger. Pretend you are each of the following nations: Serbia, Russia, Austria-Hungary, Germany, France, and England. Blame another nation for starting WWI and explain why it is there fault • B) The WWI game and map activity (handout)

8. DAY 10 • A) Be an “on the front lines” reporter. Describe a battle of WWI and the use of modern technology and how it made war so different • B) Make a propaganda poster against U-boat attacks urging the US to join WWI • C) Write a letter home from the trenches • D) Make an illustrated timeline of WWI

9. DAY 12 • A) Make an illustrated timeline of Chapter 28 • B) Russian Revolution (handout) • C) Do an in-depth comparison of Lenin and Stalin (Use the index for other chapters and outside sources)

10. DAY 15 • A) Pretend you are a government worker sent to Mexico and Africa during this time period. Document daily life, living conditions, the political climate, and joys and stresses of daily life • B) Use a poster to display the policy of “apartheid” in South Africa • C) Make a script for an infomercial encouraging people of Turkey and Iran to become modernized/Westernized

11. DAY 16 • A) Write two editorials on Gandhi, one from a British point of view the second from an Indian point of view • B) Make a list of ways you could nonviolently protest things you disagree with in your community (5 things and different protests that correspond to them) • C) Create a poster supporting Mao’s peasant brand of communism

12. DAY 17 • A) Begin Holocaust Scrapbook

13. DAY 18 • A) Finish Holocaust Scrapbook