Instructions for Setting Up and Using the GoogleSite

1. Go to www.gmail.com.
2. Click on ‘Create an Account.’
3. Enter your REAL first and last name and the other information.
4. When you pick your desired Login Name, please stick with some variation of your own name and not nicknames like HottPinky2009. J
5. Create your password and a security question.
6. A good password has letters, numbers, AND symbols, so get creative! Don’t share this with others!
7. Your security question should be something you absolutely will not forget!
8. Agree to the Terms of Service and click Create!
9. Play around with your new Gmail account and have fun!

Instructions for Contributing to the Glossary

1. When you are done creating your Gmail account, email me at miss.siarny@gmail.com.
2. I will add you to the Ms. Siarny GoogleSite and give you permission to edit the Glossary page.
3. You will get an email that you have been added as a collaborator.
4. At that point, go up to the top of your Gmail page and click on Sites.
5. Click on Ms. Siarny History.
6. On the left, click on the glossary page for your class.
7. Up at the right, then click on “Edit Page.”
8. Hit “Add item.”
9. A small blue box will appear.
10. Here, you should enter a word that you were unfamiliar with from the summer reading.
11. Use www.merriam-webster.com to find the Part of Speech and the Definition.
12. Fill in the fields in the small blue box.
13. Hit Save.
14. Go back up to the top right and hit Save again.
15. Voila! You have added to the Glossary.

If you are in AP World History next fall, MAKE SURE YOU READ THE FOLLOWING CHAPTERS OF GUNS, GERMS, AND STEEL and at very least skim the rest. I am posting the lunch dates on the Google Calendar. Sign up by emailing me at miss.siarny@gmail.com or esiarny@gmail.com or calling me!

If you are in regular World History, take a look at the recommended booklist that is coming on the Google Site. Awesome!

Enjoy your summer!

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Chapters of Import:

• Prologue-Chapter 4
• Part 3: Chapters 11-14
  • Lethal Gift of Livestock
  • Blueprints and Borrowed Letters
  • Necessity’s Mother
  • From Egalitarianism to Kleptocracy
• At least 2 of the chapters in Part 4: Chapters 15-19

Chapters to Skim:

• Part 2: Chapters 5-10
  • To Farm or Not to Farm
  • How To Make An Almond
  • Apples or Indians
  • Zebras, Unhappy Marriages, and the Anna Karenina Principle
  • Spacious Skies and Tilted Axes
• 3 chapters in Part 4
• Epilogue

April 14: World Economic Conference of 1933! Homework: Look at the photo. Answer the following questions in a paragraph. What are the differences you seen between the people in line and the people in the poster? Why do you think there might be differences? Based on what you know about the Great Depression, why do you think people are standing in line?

April 15: Time-Traveling Project. Researching in the library. Homework: Research your topic and answer your questions.

April 17: Put up the time-traveling posters.

April 7: Revolutions of the Teens and Twenties. Mexico, Russia, China.

April 8: Simulate the stock market. Visit this website and watch your money rise and fall! If it works at the school, watch clips of The Grapes of Wrath. If not, read sections.

April 9: Finish stock market crash simulation. Authoritarianism and the rise of fascism! Quiz!

Homework: Complete the reading and the study guide. Due on Thursday!

April 4, 12-4 pm.

April 18, 12-4 pm.

Last week’s homework includes: the signed syllabus and the hunter-gatherer reflection paragraph. Please see me at an appropriate time if you need another copy.

Please bring a notebook and a binder to class as soon as possible. Make sure you get last week’s notes on the Foundations of World History through the Post-Classical Era from a friend.

As we begin a new advisory, I would like to remind all of you to do a few things:

1. Come to class on time and prepared!
2. Turn in all homework promptly!
3. Get a pass before you leave the classroom!
4. Save all off-topic comments for a more appropriate time! If someone is talking, that is not the moment to ask me about your grade.
5. Write me a note if you want make-up work, extra credit, or a letter of recommendation! I will likely forget if you ask me while I’m doing 3 other things.
6. If you have a constructive comment about the class, put it in the Parking Lot!
7. Ask questions! Be curious!

We will be switching to a new grading system shortly. Please bear with me as I work out the kinks.

Check the homework pages for updates.