1. Monday- Warm Up Log on to Google Classroom
Open up the assignment titled World War II Writing Assignment
Review the requirements for this assignment and Scenario #1
This assignment will replace our Article of the Week for the next few weeks

2. Role Audience Format Topic RAFT Writing
During our unit about WWII, you will not be assigned AOW’s. Instead, you will complete a RAFT writing assignment each week.
Role
Your role as the writer - this is the perspective from which you will write.
Audience
Your intended audience for your writing
Format
The kind of writing you will do - letter, journal, speech, article, etc.
Topic
The focus of the writing.

3. WWII RAFT Writing - Week 1
Complete your RAFT writing assignment in Google Classroom by Friday. Keep in mind all aspects of RAFT. Your writing should appropriately reflect the role, format, audience, and topic, as well as convey your historical knowledge.
Role
German Newspaper Reporter
Audience
German Citizens
Format
Newspaper Article
Topic
Write an article for or against the rise of Hitler in Germany. Use specific examples of historical events

4. Rise of Joseph Stalin
Take out a copy of today’s reading from the folder at your table.
On the side with the reading, label your paragraphs 1 to 5.
After we read each paragraph, underline the information in the text that explains Stalin’s leadership qualities.
As we read, highlight and define unknown vocabulary words.
Summarize: Predict what kind of leader you think Stalin will become for Russia.

5. Stalin’s Connection to the Russian Revolution
What connections do you see in the timeline of Joseph Stalin’s Early Life?
Stalin is named the General Secretary of the Communist Party.
Stalin is arrested for organizing strikes against an oil refinery.
Joseph Stalin, is born in the village of Gori in Georgia.
Stalin gets married.
Lenin appoints Stalin Commissar of Nationalities.
The first of Stalin's Five-Year Plans begins.
Stalin enrolls in Gori Church School.
Stalin joins the Bolsheviks.
Dec
Fall 1888
April
Dec. 1903
July 1906
Nov. 1917
1922
1928

6. Who was Joseph Stalin?
Joseph Stalin was a Russian dictator in the 20th century. He was responsible for leading the Soviet Union through World War II and into the Cold War with the United States. He was also responsible for the deaths of millions of Russians through purges and decisions that led to mass starvation.

7. Stalin’s Early Life
He was born in Georgia. The area was characterized by gang wars and street brawls.
He organized bank robberies, arms deals, and assassination attempts and put in prison in
He was again arrested in 1911 and exiled.
He created Pravda in It was a Bolshevik newspaper. He was caught and again exiled.
Are these leadership qualities you want for your country's leader?

8. ¯During the Russian Civil War, Stalin was put in the Politburo (the executive committee for the Communist Party). He opposed many of Leon Trotsky’s policies (Trotsky was a Bolshevik Revolutionary and Marxist Theorist).
¯He was sent to Tsaristyn where he ordered the killings of former tsarist military leaders and counter-revolutionaries and burned villages to intimidate peasants.
¯In 1919, to stem mass desertions on the Western front, he had deserters and renegades publicly executed executed.

9. Let’s find out more about what Stalin did for the USSR
In the folder at your desk, take out a handout for the “Rise of Joseph Stalin”
Using the blendspace “Joseph Stalin” explore through links and video clips and answer the questions about Joseph Stalin and his plan for the USSR.
When you are finished, the handout should be glued into your notebook on page 79

10. Exit Tix: Joseph Stalin was the leader of which country: Germany
Poland
Italy
Soviet Union
2. What is collectivization?
The leader of country makes all the decisions
Only the head of the family is responsible for decisions
Forced consolidation of individual peasant households into collective farms
Forced collection of payment each month.