Vietnam

Today's Agenda:

• Review: Chapter 29 Attack
• Finish: Things They Carried
• View: Vietnam in HD: Tet Offensive

Vietnam

Today's Agenda:

• Review: Chapter 29 in American Anthem
• Continue: reading Things They Carried
• View: Vietnam in HD, the Tet Offensive (Episode 3)

Vietnam

Today's Agenda:

Finish: Vietnam in HD Episode 1 (14 minutes left)
Discuss: Background info. on Vietnam
Finish: the Chapter Attack for Vietnam (29)
Continue: reading Things They Carried

Vietnam

Today's Agenda:

Complete: the 2 maps of Vietnam and Southeast Asia
Here is a short interview that Tim O'Brien did on "War Stories."
Read the rest of Chapter 1 in Things They Carried/Answer the Questions
Begin: On the Rainy River

Unit-Vietnam/Things They Carried

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

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

Unit-Civil Rights

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?