Test day!
Today was the review day for tomorrow's test. The review sheets are in the Cold War binder packet.
To wrap up our post-war unit, we looked today at the counterculture movement of the 1960s. We also listened to some 1960s music and examined the year 1968 specifically.
As we start to wrap up the Cold War unit, we looked at Lyndon Johnson's Great Society and Barry Goldwater's criticism of that platform of social welfare programs. This was intended to be a continuation of our larger discussion about the role of government in society and the economy.
Students worked on the US in Vietnam sheet in their binders and then watched excerpts from Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam, which examined the soldiers' experiences during the conflict.
To begin our examination of the Vietnam War, we worked our way through a PowerPoint about the origin of the war. The notes video can be found below - absent students should fill out the corresponding notes sheet in their binders. We concluded our discussion of the Civil Rights movement by looking at other minority groups of the 1960s and 1970s and their efforts to advance in society through nonviolent action. Students completed a binder sheet on the topic.
Because the visuals of the Civil Rights Movement are so important, students viewed the short film A Time for Justice. In this video, participants in the movement describe their experiences in a meaningful and emotional way.
We then transition to discuss other, more aggressive strategies employed by groups such as the Black Panthers. We sought to understand the motivations for and the effects of their more assertive approach. Students began a look at the Civil Rights Movement by finding and organizing information on a number of topics, all while keeping the overall strategy of nonviolence in mind. We discussed the positives and negatives of this tactic and will follow up on this tomorrow. Core assignment 8.2 was also handed out today. It is due on Tuesday.
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