Unit-Vietnam

Today's Agenda:

Introduce: the Vietnam War (What do we know? What do we need to know?)
Introduce: Tim O'Brien and Things They Carried
Vietnam War Statistics

From the Atlantic: How young millennial Vietnamese view the war today.

Civil Rights

MLK--March on Washington (speech video) and "I Have a Dream"

"I Have a Dream" analysis

Other ways of protest: Same goal, different approach--Black Panthers

Malcolm X and "The Ballot or the Bullet"

Comparing the speeches

The Civil Rights Movement

Today's Agenda:

• Discuss: Racial Inequality in America
• View: Race Relations in America
• Analyze: Brown vs. Board of Education
• Emmett Till: the 14 year old martyr of the Civil Rights Movement
• Discuss: Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycotts (1955)
• Introduce: Martin Luther King Jr. 
• Discuss: the Little Rock Nine/Read Daisy Bates narrative

Slate article: Are We in the Midst of a New Civil Rights Era?

Unit-Post War America

Today's Agenda:

• Complete: Chapter Review (25-27)
• Discuss: the election of President Kennedy in 1960
• Analyze: the Bay of Pigs and the Cuban Missile Crisis
• Finish: the Cuban Missile Crisis