World War II

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World War II

• Adam Curry

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Analyze Learners

• Major Powers
• Major Conflicts
• Cause and effects of World War II
• This lesson will be taught to an 11th grade
  History Class

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Objectives

• SS.11.4.2. Identify and locate the places
  significant to each period of study. 
• SS.11.5.7. Analyze and evaluate the major causes,
  events, personalities and effects of World War
  II.
• SS.11.5.8. Explain and assess the economic,
  social and political transformation of the United
  States since World War II.
• SS.11.5.9  Analyze and explain United States and
  world foreign policy since World War II
• SS.11.5.25  Compare and contrast Fascism, Nazism
  and Communism
• 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).

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Selected Media and Material

• Accesses to computers and an internet connection
• Films (EX. Saving Private Ryan)
• Handouts
• Maps

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Selected Media and Material Cont.

• http//www.euronet.nl/users/wilfried/ww2/ww2.htm
• http//www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/riseofhitler
  /index.htm
• http//baby.indstate.edu/gga/gga_cart/gecar153.htm
  
• http//web.comhem.se/u42145233/nazi.htm
• http//www.trumanlibrary.org/whistlestop/study_col
  lections/bomb/large/index.php

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Utilize Media and Materials Day One

• Brief overview on The Great Depression
• State of America before the war

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Day Two

• Introduction to World War II
• Allies and Axis Powers
• Location of the countries

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Day Three

• Computer Research
• Causes of World War II
• America Involved
• Lecture on the beginning of WWII

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Day Four

• Adolf Hitler
• Nazi Party
• Joseph Stalin
• Communism
• Fascism
• Computer research

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Day Five

• Breaking the kids into 3 groups and allowing them
  to use their internet research on their topics on
  communism, Nazism, and fascism

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Day Six

• Students will present their topics to the class
• Japan
• The Atomic Bomb
• The aftermath

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Day Seven

• Movie Day

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Day Eight

• Video on the aftermath of dropping the atomic
  bomb
• American economic state after the war

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Require Learner Participation

• Projects, Films, Online Research, and Class
  Discussion

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 Evaluate and Revise

• SS.11.5.25 and SS.11.5.7 in projects on Nazism
  and communism and causes of World War II
• State objective SS.11.5.8 will be evaluated with
  a one to two page paper
• State objectives SS.11.5.26 and SS.11.4.2 will be
  evaluated by a trivia game which will be played
  for participation grade
• State objective SS.11.5.9 will be evaluated by
  students will do a one page paper and submit it
  the following class