We completed the World War 1 Unit and are now moving into Totalitarianism which has spiked some interest among the students as we are talking about Hitler, Mussolini and Stalin. We have done a Hitler KWL and are now working on taking notes for newspaper articles about each dictator. This includes prompts from the New York Times, KC Star and the Houston Chronicle. It was exciting learning that many of my students have quite a bit of prior knowledge about Hitler and Stalin, not so much on Mussolini. Thinking about the Performance Assessment and possibly having students write a newspaper article or give a television news story, filming themselves and presenting it to class on the dictators. Wow.