Going to War Creating a Peace Chikako Tanaka Deborah Weddle Phyllis Parker

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Going to WarCreating a PeaceChikako
TanakaDeborah WeddlePhyllis Parker
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Purpose

• Enable students to
• Study reasons/justifications for going to war
• Explore steps for preventing war
• Consider the value of different perspectives and
  approaches

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Venue

• Surveys
• E-mail
• Class units on World War II

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Partners

• Hikarigaoka Girls High School
• Rockbridge County High School
• (Grades 10-12)

http//www.hikarigaoka-h.ed.jp/english/seimon.jpg
http//journalism.wlu.edu/rrarchive/10-09-2003/Roc
kbridge/RCHs.JPG
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Music and Rhythm

• Six weeks

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Materials Needed

• Pre-unit survey
• Computer/internet access
• Background unit on World War II
• Post-unit survey

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Steps
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Step One

• September 2005
• Rockbridge County High School students take the
  survey which Chikakos students took and we send
  it to Japan.

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Step 2

• Classroom Learning
• Information presented
• National perspective
• New information from other national perspective
• (Sharing of text materials)

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Step 3

• Questionnaire via E-mail
• Questions back and forth between Japanese and US
  students exploring understanding and points of
  view
• Sharing ideas
• Exploring national points of view
• Reasons for going to war
• Significance of Pearl Harbor
• Should US have used atomic weapons
• Use of propaganda--words and images
• Differences in text presentation
• Justification of occupation (Japan/China,
  US/Japan, US/Iraq)
• How to build peaceful and democratic nations

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Step 4

• Post Unit Surveys and Essays

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How do we prevent this?
http//ssg.mit.edu/ihler/photos/Travel/Japan/raw/
2001-10-0920Hiroshima20Dome2001.jpg
http//arcweb.sos.state.or.us/exhibits/pearl/image
s/ariz2_03.jpg
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How can we build peace?
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Links

• Hikarigaoka Girls High http//www.hikarigaoka-h.e
  d.jp/english/seimon.jpg
• Rockbridge County High School http//journalism.wl
  u.edu/rrarchive/10-09-2003/Rockbridge/RCHs.JPG
• USS Arizona http//arcweb.sos.state.or.us/exhibits
  /pearl/images/ariz2_03.jpg
• Hiroshima http//ssg.mit.edu/ihler/photos/Travel/
  Japan/raw/2001-10-0920Hiroshima20Dome2001.jpg