Modern American Presidents

Today's Agenda:

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

Today's Agenda:

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

Today's Agenda:

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

Today's Agenda:

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

Vietnam/Things They carried

Today's Agenda:

• Review: Anthem Chapter 29
• Continue: reading Things They Carried
• Analyze: Vietnam Statistics

Vietnam/Things They carried

Today's Agenda:

Watch: Vietnam in HD Episode 1
Complete: the Chapter Attack for Vietnam (29)
Continue: reading Things They Carried

Vietnam/Things They Carried

Today's Agenda:

• Last Call: Anthem Chapter on Vietnam
• Introduce: Tim O'Brien and Things They Carried
• Read: Chapter 1-The Things They Carried
• Vietnam War Statistics

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

Unit-Vietnam/Things They Carried

Today's Agenda:

• Class is only 45 minutes long (Early Dismissal Day)
• Geography Activity: Map of Vietnam
• Anthem Chapter 29-Vietnam

Post War America: the Cold War & Civil Rights

The  next few days we will cover the sixties through significant speeches: Two from John F. Kennedy, one from Martin Luther King, Jr., and one from Malcolm X. Your assessment will be to analyze ONE of those speeches in an on-demand essay.

First, some "Cold War" context...

Documents and links:

• Speech Analysis Worksheet
• Kennedy's Inaugural--TEXT and VIDEO
• Kennedy's address on the Cuban Missile Crisis--TEXT and VIDEO
• MLK's "I Have a Dream"--TEXT and VIDEO
• Malcolm X's "Ballot or the Bullet"--TEXT and AUDIO