Gulf of Tonkin Incident and LBJ

14/8/14
Robert McNamara, Johnson's Secretary of Defense


Today we looked at President Johnson and the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution.  Using the website Conflict-Indochina and the pages LBJ and The Gulf of Tonkin and The Gulf of Tonkin Incident, we read a brief overview of Johnson's presidency and watched 5 video clips giving different perspectives of the incident.  The class then had 6 questions, posted on Edmodo/14August, 2014, to answer.  The last 2 questions needed more work so students have been directed to watch the 5 videos again and consider their answers to questions 5 and 6.                                                                                

Armaments Minister and Relationship with Hitler

13/8/14
Today, we continued with our Albert Speer work.  Class were directed to read the information on our Albert Speer website on the pages Armaments Minister and Speer's Relationship with Hitler.  Besides the reading there are also a number of questions that need to be completed.  Both pages also deal with the question of how much Speer actually knew about the Jewish question or Final Solution.  This work is to be completed as Learning Preparation and any problems can be dealt with during our revision session on Monday after school.

Vietnam Divided and the Diem Regime

25/7/14
During this lesson we looked at the sheet posted on Edmodo, HSC Trial.pdf which sets out the layout of the exam.
We then looked at the website Conflict-Indochina, (see Essential Websites) which is to constitute our text book for this unit of the course and began working through the booklet, Vietnam, 1954-1963 (see Essential Websites).  The work in the booklet is to be completed before the Trial and provides depth to the work in the Edmodo folder, Conflict-Indochina. This work covers Dien Bien Phu, Geneva Conference, Geneva Accords and the Diem Regime.

Conflict in Indochina

16/7/14
Today, we did Assessment Task 3, a source analysis on Albert Speer. 
This was our only period this week as Monday was a Professional Development Day and we lose Thursday's double to the Careers Market.  Everyone has the work posted on Edmodo/Jul 15, 2014 to complete before the beginning of next week.  This work covers Propaganda and Terror, Domestic Policy and Opposition to the Nazi regime. This is the last lost of work to be done on Nazi Germany.

21/7/14
Today we began work on our last unit, Conflict in Indochina, 1954-1979.  All the work in the folder Conflict-Indochina on Edmodo needs to be completed by Friday.  This work covered the period 1954-1960 and looked at Dien Bien Phu, Geneva Conference, Geneva Accords and the Diem Regime. The folder contains information sheets and worksheets. 

We looked at ways of revising Modern History for the HSC, using the sheet HSC Revision.doc, posted on Edmodo.
After school several students stayed back to work on revision.  We looked at how to interpret essay questions in the HSC.

I also set work on Albert Speer to be completed during Wednesday's period (IEU strike).  The work was to complete the section on the website, Work for the Nazis, 1938-1945.

Speer, 1938-1945

26/6/14

We watched the videos and discussed the information on the page Work for the Nazis, 1938-1945 on the website 99 Shades of Albert.  We also looked at the pages in Republic to Reich, pp 239-244, which takes us up to the beginning of the War.
Everyone began working on the questions on the website in Work for the Nazis, 1938-1945.  This needs to be completed before the beginning of Term 3.  The relevant pages in Republic to Reich are pp 244-247.

Speer, 1934-1937

23/6/14
Period shortened to 10 minutes owing to school assembly.
Took this time to watch to video clips - one a virtual tour of Germania, the other the trailer for Speer's
 Berlin.

25/6/14
We began by going through the assessment task notification sheet.
Then we discussed work for the holidays - Nazi Workbook and the Jewish Question on Edmodo.
Went to Early Work for the Nazis on the website and read and discussed the chronology then continued work on the questions on that page. The questions included Speer coming to Hitler's notice, his rise within the Nazi structure, Speer's theories of architecture, how he and Hitler formed a relationship approaching friendship, the Paris World Fair German pavilion and other building projects in the period 1934-1937.

Speer's Early Work for the Nazis

18/6/14
We read and discussed the relevant section in Republic to Reich on Speer's early work for the Nazis.
Next, students began work on the questions about Albert's early work for the Nazis on the page on prestonhistory.wix.com/albertspeer Early Work for the Nazis.

20/6/14
Missed today's lesson owing to Sports Carnival.