Vietnam War Unit Plan

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Vietnam War Unit Plan

• David Jones

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CSOs

• SS.11.1.7 Identify and explain the importance of
  the personal and political responsibilities,
  privileges and rights of citizens.
• SS.11.1.8 Explain the concept of civil
  disobedience, provide examples and evaluate its
  use.
• SS.11.4.2 Identify and locate the places
  significant to each period of study.
• SS.11.5.12 Investigate concerns, issues and
  conflicts related to universal human rights
  (e.g., Holocaust, diversity, tolerance,
  genocide).

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CSOs Continued

• SS.11.5.22 Explain how language, art, music and
  other cultural elements can facilitate global
  understanding.
• SS.11.5.26 Identify and analyze world conflicts,
  including causes and consequences (e.g., World
  War I, World War II, Korea, Vietnam, Gulf War,
  Operation Enduring Freedom/Afghanistan
  Military Crisis).
• SS.11.5.27 Analyze the goals and actions of
  reformers and reform movements (e.g., social,
  economic, political).

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Media and Materials

• The American Pageant A History of the Republic.
  Eleventh Edition
• The Legacy of Kent State (DVD)
• Scavenger hunt web quest
• http//www.readwritethink.org/lesson_images/lesson
  821/project.pdf
• Yusef Komunyakaa poem
• http//www.ibiblio.org/ipa/poems/komunyakaa/camouf
  laging_the_chi mera.php
• Vietnam Lesson Plan Opposing views on the
  Vietnam war
• http//school.discovery.com/lessonplans/programs/v
  ietnam/
• American Experience Vietnam online
• http//www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/vietnam/

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Analyze Learners

• This unit is intended for 16-17 year old
  students.
• It will be used in a 11th grade classroom.

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Day 1

• Introduction to Vietnam region.
• PowerPoint presentation connecting Vietnam to the
  Cold War.
• Divide class into 3 groups. Direct them to do a
  Project on one of three countries Vietnam, Laos,
  or Cambodia.
• 5 minute presentation on their country.

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Day 2

• Lecture on Gulf of Tonkin incident and class
  discussion.
• Lecture on President Johnson.
• Pass out 2 handouts President Johnson Public
  opinion polls Vietnam Quotes.

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Day 3

• Lecture on public opinion and the war,
  counterculture, the war protest.
• Handout Yusef Komunyakaa poem.
• Separate students into groups of 3-4.
• Each group will choose a war song from this era
  and research a picture that they feel best
  represents their song and present it to the class
  the next class period.

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Day 4

• Group presentations
• Video The History Channel Legacy of Kent State

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Day 5

• Lecture and class discussion on Kent State
  Massacre and other anti-war protest.
• Worksheet Important people of the Vietnam
  Protest.
• I will write this question on the board Was
  Kent State related to the end of the war in
  Vietnam?
• I will ask the students to write an essay in
  response to the question and it will be due the
  next class period.

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Day 6

• Finish up discussion on Kent State Massacre and
  protest.
• I will then prompt the students to look up the
  1st Amendment of the US Constitution in their
  text books.
• I will then divide the class up into two groups
  and they will debate over the limits of this
  Amendment and if the protest during the 1960s
  were in violation of it.

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Day 7

• I will lecture on the end of the war and the
  impacts it has had on the world as we know it
  today.
• I will then prompt the students to review all of
  their material about the war. They will then
  write a news report essay on one event/issue that
  they have learned about dealing with the Vietnam
  War.

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Learner Participation

• Every day there is either a class discussion or
  group project that will give them a break from my
  lectures.
• I will also keep them interested by not giving
  them all of the information myself. It will be up
  to them to do research and develop their own
  responses and opinions about this era and about
  the war.

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Evaluation

• SS.11.1.7 First Amendment Debate
• SS.11.1.8 First Amendment Debate
• SS.11.4.2 Group Presentation
• SS.11.5.12 Kent state video essay
• SS.11.5.22 Song and Image Presentation
• SS.11.5.26 News Report Essays
• SS.11.5.27 Important people of the
  Vietnam Protest worksheet