October 2019 Apprentice (Sept 26 class) - Post WWII & the 1950's

It's time for a 1950's sock hop! Girls, wear your poodle skirts and saddle shoes and boys, get out those muscle shirts and biker jackets! Don't be square, we'll see ya there!

Apprentice:

Study/Learn

Complete all of the following:

1. Read A History of US, volume 10, chapters 1-16 OR Watch "The Remarkable 20th Century: episode 6" on Amazon Prime.  Pause it and take notes in your commonplace book (see #5)

2. Study the map of post World War 2 Europe.
 

3. Study the note cards for this month from the Dictionary of Cultural Literacy 
     (I sent out the notecard files in an email to your parents, but if you need them again, you can access them here...  VG notecards files)

4. On the time line in your commonplace book (you can print the one I created that's linked below or create your own.  If you create your own make sure you have US presidents, LDS prophets and at least 12 notable dates), add 5 dates that aren't already on there.  They can be world, national or family history dates.
(I sent out the timeline files in an email to your parents, but if you need them again, you can access them here...  VG timelines)

Here's what mine look like --------------->

CONTEST: See if you can find important events for your time line in other areas like science, entertainment, sports, etc. We will vote on the best or most unique one found! There will be a prize :)

5. Write a paragraph or two in your common place book for each of the major events that happened during the 1950's, summarizing what you read or watched. Be creative and artistic. Include any applicable pictures and maps. 

Save room in your commonplace book for short bios on people from reports in class.

6. Memorize the following dates:

• 1945 - Germany surrenders and the U.S. drops atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan. World War II comes to an end.
• 1950 - The Korean War begins.
• 1955 - Rosa Parks is arrested in Montgomery, Alabama for not giving up her seat on the bus.
• 1956 - Hungarian Revolution
• 1957 - Sputnik launched by the Russians
• 1959 - Castro seized power in Cuba

Know/Understand

Choose 1 person from your reading/watching OR FROM YOUR FAMILY HISTORY to give us a 2-3 minute report on in class.  (If you can't think of someone, use someone from the list below)  Please include 3 bullet points about why we need to know about this person and the impact he/she made on this time period.  Also look for whether or not this person lived our principle for the month, "Be Proactive."  How did this affect their lives?  Text Sis. Cloward (801-404-8809) with the one you want so we don't duplicate.

• Harry Truman - JAYKOB
• Joseph Stalin 
• Mahatma Gandhi - KYLEE
• Dwight D. Eisenhower
• Albert Einstein - JEFFERSON
• Charles de Gaulle
• Winston Churchill - ANNEKA 
• Jackie Robinson - JACOB 
• Joseph McCarthy - ISA
• the Rosenbergs - KASSIE
• Thurgood Marshall
• Elvis Presley - AFTON 
• Ho Chi Minh
• Gamal Abdel Nasser
• Walt Disney  - SARAH 
• Nikita Khrushchev - SAM
• Fidel Castro - ELENA
• Albert Schweitzer - ABBY
• Alexander Fleming - CALEB
• Marilyn Monroe - CHRIS
• Lucille Ball - SHAYLIE 
• Frank Sinatra - ERYN
• Ernest Hemingway - EVELYN
• Arthur Miller - PAIGE
• Dr. Benjamin Spock - JAYSON
• George Orwell
• Rosa Parks - KENSI 

Become/Serve

Print, Read and Mark the following General Conference talk: A Witness and a Warning by Ezra Taft Benson

The following is a quote from Pres. Ezra Taft Benson from the talk you read:

"Never before has the land of Zion appeared so vulnerable to so powerful an enemy as the Americas do at present. And our vulnerability is directly attributable to our loss of active faith in the God of this land, who has decreed that we must worship Him or be swept off. Too many Americans have lost sight of the truth that God is our source of freedom—the Lawgiver—and that personal righteousness is the most important essential to preserving our freedom. So, I say with all the energy of my soul that unless we as citizens of this nation forsake our sins, political and otherwise, and return to the fundamental principles of Christianity and of constitutional government, we will lose our political liberties, our free institutions, and will stand in jeopardy before God."

What year was this talk given in General Conference?  Are you surprised?  Could the same thing be said of our country today?  Have things gotten better or worse since then?  What are some trends we see in America today that are taking us closer and closer to Communism?  Is there a stepping stone between our Democratic Republic government and Communism?  What is it?  (If you're not sure, ask your parents.  They'll tell you it's Socialism.)  Do you see evidence of that step in our country today?  

What can you do now to stop the flood of Socialistic Communism in our country?  What can you do in the future?  

Say a prayer of gratitude to Heavenly Father for the freedoms we enjoy in this country and ask Him what you can do to uphold it.  Journal for 10 minutes on these questions in your commonplace book and record any inspiration you receive.