Please do not talk at this timeSept 22 HW: Make sure you are done with your map questions for Side 1. Finish Practicing Reading Strategies on Stalingrad Background in your text book. Please Get out your Video Notes from Friday and share what you wrote with your partner…. What effect did WWII have on Civilians? Remember… you have a short answer question on the test on the War’s effect on Civilians. Now is the time to get your evidence!

Please Get a European Front Map Handout, Pg 25A/B You will also need a colored pen. BTW: Reading Maps is a Common Core Skill!

World War II European Theater Prelude & November 1942-May 1945

The European War: The next few slides will give you an idea of the course of the European Front during WWII. As we go through this animation, write numbers on the countries in the order they fell to the Axis Powers Make sure you answer the map questions too!

The Axis Advance

The European War: Questions: 1.How would you describe the action in this stage of the European War? 2.What do you think guided Hitler’s choices about what country to attack next? 3.Who is attacked last? Why do you think that is?

This map shows the furthest extent of the Nazi Empire. This is the most land under Hitler’s Control… And then Hitler and Stalin fight the Battle of Stalingrad

Reading Strategies- Pg. 11A These are the Strategies we have done so far: Annotating- Taking notes in the margins (or on a separate paper) to summarize a difficult section of reading so its easier to remember later. Slow Down and Reread- Going over a difficult section more than once, slowly to get all the ideas. Numbering Lists- Putting numbers to long lists to help identify them in a reading as a set to be taken together. Connecting to Prior Knowledge- Making a link to something you already know so its easier to remember and makes more sense with more information. Now you will add to this list… and then we will use those strategies to read about the Battle of Stalingrad.

Reading Strategies- Pg. 11A Timeline- When you are reading about a procedure or events that happen one after another, try organizing the information into a Timeline… write the actions or events in order and number them…. Visualize- When you are reading something descriptive, try visualizing it in your head like you are watching the reading as a movie.

Open your book to pg. 507 Please set up pg. 27A Battle of Stalingrad Notes Because this section is about a pivitol battle in WWII, it will be a great reading to practice the Timeline and Visualize Strategies…. To start: As you read, create a timeline of events on your paper. Color code it by Germans and Russians so you can clearly see who is doing what. The book doesn’t have a lot of dates so you will need to follow the order of the text….

Pg. 27A Battle of Stalingrad Notes Does yours look like this? Aug. 23, 1942 Luftwaffe bomb Stalingrad and start the battle Nov Germans control 90% of the city General Paulus begs Hitler to allow a retreat. Hitler says no. Feb. 2, ,000 Germans Surrender. Stalin orders Stalingrad defended to the death Nov. 19, a second Russian army surrounds the German Army around Stalingrad Russians cut off German supplies.

Pg. 27A Battle of Stalingrad Notes Now under your timeline practice Visualize, by pulling out the descriptive language in the reading… What are some adjectives or other descriptive language you can find? Make a list: –Ablaze –Rubble –Frostbitten –Half-Starved –Destroyed Now Take that list and either do a drawing/illustration of some part of the Battle of Stalingrad or a diagram of the battle…

Operation Barbarossa: Hitler’s Biggest Mistake

Operation Barbarossa: June 22, 1941  3,000,000 German soldiers.  3,400 tanks.

The Russians Respond: Russian Scorch Earth Policy If we can’t have it…. No one will….. They burn the grain in the fields, poison the wells, tear down the houses, kill the farm animals. There will be nothing left for Hitler to use.

ASQ: What one Russian resource stopped Genghis Kahn and Napoleon both? The Deadly Russian Winter Only Russians Can Survive The Deadly Russian Winter Only Russians Can Survive Minimum temperatures for the Moscow area in late 1941: December, --20°F. The lowest Temperature recorded that exceptionally cold winter was -63°F. Still, Russians are Bitter. Stalin fought alone against Hitler in Europe from 1941 – Russia loses more soldiers and civilians holding the line than any other nation.