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Review: Chapter 12 Attack 
Analyze: Reconstruction (Slide Share)
View: The Rise of Jim Crow

Modern American Presidents

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Here is a cheat sheet for Monday's Summative Assessment:
Modern American President/Events Questions

Modern America

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Here is the Modern American Presidents Project

Vietnam/Things They Carried

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Finish: Vietnam in HD Episode 6 (Peace with Honor)
Review: Vietnam, The Final Analysis
The Legacy of Vietnam

Time Permitting: Protest Songs of the 21st Century

Vietnam

A true war story is not about the “happening truth” but the “emotional truth.” Sometimes fiction can actually feel more true to life than an account of the simple facts. Consider a strong emotion that you have felt about something in your life. Write a fictionalized personal narrative essay using a powerful image or event that possibly never happened, but represents or expresses the emotions you felt in the real moment. In some ways, this is like a tall tale, where you exaggerate or alter the truth to help your reader understand what it really felt like, since they weren’t there and can’t understand the truth.

• Personal Narrative Assignment
• Exemplars

Vietnam/Things They Carried

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American POW Experience
Muhammad Ali's reaction to being drafted in Vietnam
My lai Massacre: Survivors recall the atrocities

Recent history: Mitt Romney in NH (2011)

Vietnam

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• Continue: reading Things They Carried "On The Rainy River"
• View: Vietnam in HD, the Tet Offensive (Episode 3)