practice+for+organization


 * ** Cycle ** ||  ** Day 1 (A) **  ||  ** Day 2 (B) **  ||  ** Day 3 (C) **  ||  ** Day 4 (D) **  ||  ** Day 5 (F) **  ||
 * ** 1 ** || ** Introduction ** || ** D’Souza What is America, the West, **
 * IDENTITY? ** || ** Anti-Americanism: Critiques of America; Connect to D’Souza ** || ** D’Souza ASSESSMENT **


 * Begin UNIT I formally… **
 * What is Fascism? ** || ** Occidentalism, Anti-Americanism, and Fascism **

Buruma and Margalit ||
 * ** 2 ** || ** Ideology: Secular **

Eric Hobsbawm || Fascists describe Fascism: Document Analysis: Pieces written by Fascists 34-44 || ** Fascism and the Occult **
 * Nationalism and Racism **

Explain anti-Jewish hatred—connect to occult and racism Explain Volkish ideology || ** Ur-Fascism ** Umberto Eco


 * Nazism’s distinct difference from other fascisms **

Dennis Showalter & Ben Zarwell || ** Researching Today’s Extremists… ** ||
 * ** 3 ** || ** ASSESSMENT DUE **

Discuss fascism
 * // Breivik, Joel’s Army, EDF, Al Qaeda (Qutb) //**
 * // Youth for Western Civilization //**

Introduce new unit… || ** Hitler’s Power and the History of German Fascism **

Kershaw Intro || Kershaw Ch 1 || Kershaw Ch 2 || Kershaw Ch 3 ||
 * ** 4 ** || Kershaw Ch 4 || Kershaw Ch 5 || Kershaw Ch 6 || Kershaw Ch 7 || ** Senior Retreat ** ||
 * ** 5 ** || Late Start No Homework || Kershaw Chapter 8 || Kershaw Review || ** ASSESSMENT **

Kershaw Test (Monday 10/1) || ** Introduction to New Unit ** || Kassamiris and Bartov || Browning: Preface, Chapters 1, 5, 6 || Browning chapters 7-9 || Browning 10-13 || Browning 18
 * || ** Sources of Barbarism, The Myth of the Wehrmacht **
 * 30 pages, doable. Use a graphic organizer with headings for kids… ** ||
 * ** 7 ** || Browning 18 II || ** Race War and Historical Memory **

Dower “Race, Language, and War in Two Cultures” Saipan Civilians in War? || ** PSAT/PLAN **  || ** Cognitive Shift **

Heer “How Amorality Becomes Normality” || ** ASSESSMENT DUE **


 * Ordinary Men… **
 * (Monday October 22) ** ||
 * ** 8 ** || Introduction to Unit


 * American Historical Memory: D-Day **

Gibbs “The Greatest Day” || CONFEDERATES IN THE ATTIC…

Lynching || Ryback: Evidence of Evil OR Ryback Letters from the dead… || //Blood and Ice// or //Firestorms// From Max Hastings’ //Armageddon// || Woman in Berlin or Operation Gemorrah +Air War and Literature ||
 * ** 9 ** || Dagerman: German Autumn ||  || Gregor Loss/Shame

Introduce Monument || Guilt about the Past || From the House of the Dead || Borowski ||
 * ** 10 ** || WORK ON MONUMENT || WORK ON MONUMENT… ||  ||   || ** This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen **
 * ** 11 ** || ** Auschwitz, Our Home **

Borowski || ** Auschwitz, Our Home **

Borowski || ** Man’s Search for Meaning ** Frankl || ** Man’s Search for Meaning ** Frankl || ** Man’s Search for Meaning ** Frankl || Nietzsche || Nietzsche || Stromberg and Sartre’s Wall || Sartre || Sartre ||
 * ** 12 ** || EXISTENTIALISM Handout +
 * ** 13 ** || REVIEW! ||  ||   ||   ||   ||