The Communist Experiment Essay

For homework, you were asked to complete a design sheet.


Using your work on the design, you will be doing two things today:


1. Go to the group Discussion Page. Once there, sign in using your Google account name. Then type your essay on a new website. Make sure to put your title and name so that you can easily find it.


2. Ask a partner to revise your essay. They may make any necessary comments, corrections, and remarks. But be sure to make those marks in a different color than what your wrote your essay.


3. Using the rubric, score the essay and turn in your rubric.

Classwork for Friday December 11

Part I:


Step 1: Play the Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons Game


Step 2: Which country does each Peace Dove belong to?


Lady Juliet
Phoenix
Beaster
Dolores
Olga
Omar
Bert
Peggy Sue


Step 3: Why is nuclear proliferation(spread) such a major issue? What specific information did you learn about the spread of nuclear weapons in the world? 


Step 4: E-mail Mr. Cotto your results and reflection.


Part II


With your groups, discuss the following on the comments of the blog.


Chapter 8:

What did Benjamin know about Squealor that the other animals could not understand?

“None of the animals could form any idea as to what this meant, except old Benjamin, who nodded his muzzle with a knowing air, and seemed to understand, but would say nothing.”

Chapter 9:

What was the significance of Sugarcandy Mountain

Animal Farm: Chapter 6 and 7

With your groups, discuss the following:


Chapter 6:

Why were the animals content(happy), “in spite of the hardness of their work.”?

Chapter 7:

How had things on the farm changed since the revolution?

Animal Farm Chapters 4 and 5: The Transition in Leadership

With your group, discuss the following questions after reading Chapter 4 and 5 of Animal Farm

Chapter 4:

According to Pilkington and Frederick, “what came of rebelling against the laws of Nature” ?

Chapter 5:

Why did Napoleon and Snowball conflict over the running of the farm?

Russian Revolution: Animal Farm Chapter 2 and 3

Read the next two chapters of Animal Farm and discuss these questions with your group.

Chapter 2:




According to the pigs, how did Animalism work?



Chapter 3:



How was the farm life before the revolt compared to life after?



The links to the chapters are above, you can also find the entire book here.

Russian Revolution: Animal Farm Chapter 1

Select Two People in the Class as  Discussion Group.

Discuss the following question:

Why did Old Major believe that the animal lived a miserable life?

You should each have two comments that discuss each other's comments. Indicate who your group members are in each post.

Here is the link:

http://www.readprint.com/chapter-7647/Animal-Farm-George-Orwell

Possilities for a Democratic Russia

Know: People in the Russian Revolution
Understand: Possibilities for fair, democratic Russia
Be able to do: Role Play and Argue which option is best for Russia.


Step 1: Select the best option for Russia


Step 2: Select one person to study on their view about a Democratic Russia


Group A: Nicholas II and the Autocracy
Men
Nicholas II (Recommended)
Alexander Sazonov
Ivan Goremykin
Nikolai Maklakov
Peter Wrangel
Anton Denikin
Alexander Kolchak
Lavr Kornilov
Nikolai Yudenich
Felix Yusupov
Sergei Zubatov


Women
Alexandra Romanov (Recommended)
Irina Yusupov

Group B: Liberals and Moderate Socialists


Men
Alexander Kerensky (Recommended)
Alexander Protopopov
Alexander Guchkov
Paul Milyukov
Michael Rodzianko
Peter Struve


Women
Maria Bochkareva
Anna Shabanova
Ariadna Tyrkova

Group C: Mensheviks and Socialist Revolutionaries
Vladimir Antonov-Ovseenko
Victor Chernov
Julius Martov
Fedor Dan
Leon Trotsky (Recommended)
Irakli Tsereteli
Nikolai Sukhanov


Women
Alexandra Kollontai (Recommended)
Catherine Breshkovskaya
Maria Spirdonova
Vera Zasulich
Vera Figner
Elizabeth Kovalskaia
Praskovia Ivanovskia
Olga Liubatovich

Group D: Bolsheviks
Men
Vladimir Lenin (Recommended)
Nickolai Bukharin (Recommended)
Alexander Shlyapnikov
Mikhail Frunze
Lev Kamenev
Gregory Zinoviev


Women
Inessa Armand 
Nadezhda Krupskaya
Elena Stasova (Recommended)
Rosa Luxemburg
Louise Bryant


Step 3: Participate in a meet n' greet and exchange information on the Russian leaders


Step 4: View A Clip from Engineering an Empire


Step 5: Argue which option would be best for a democratic Russia.