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Today we take a look at the most infamous day of the 20th century. December 7th, 1941. The day Pearl Harbor was attacked. For most Iowans, this seems like a distant, far off place that we've heard of and seen pictures. But Iowa, especially northeast Iowa, was affected just like the rest of the country. There are no less than seven soldiers that were from northeast Iowa, INCLUDING TWO FROM CHICKASAW COUNTY, that perished on the USS Arizona alone. Today, we will look at how the place you grew up was affected by a major world history event.
You may have seen the display out in the foyer. Have you stopped to look at it? Do you know the stories behind the things that rest in the case? Today you will examine the case and it's contents. Wait for the teacher to instruct you on when to go look. When there, scan the QR codes that are hanging down there for more information.
Anything that is written in red is a question that must be answered, and eventually turned into the Google Classroom for a grade.
Start here, watching this as a class.
Read this, either individually or as a class. That choice is up to the teacher
1. If you could at Lt Schmitt one question, what would you ask him? Why?
Additional story, with pictures, if you want more of LT Schmitt
Next, take a look at these stories. You will need to read what you can about Zobeck in the second article. Answer any questions in red.
The Headline of the New Hampton Tribune. Dec. 11th, 1941. This was the first issue of the paper to come out after the attack.
Article from the New Hampton Tribune, Dec. 11th, 1941.
2. What do you think happened to Lester Zobeck? Did he make it? Did he die? Do some research...find out, report it out.
Read this article
Article written in the Dec. 11th , 1941 New Hampton Tribune.
3. Describe the tone of the writing. What do you think it says about how people were feeling in New Hampton and Chickasaw County?
It continues here
From the Dec. 31st 1941 Nashua Reporter
Read the rest of the article, continued on page 6.
4. Find the other names of soldiers listed in the article. Make a list and find out if they survived the attack. You will need to need to use Google. The easiest way is to find an obituary for them.
Below you will see articles fro the Chickasaw County newspapers with news and updates on the people from this area. Read through them a bit. See what the families and friends found out, in most cases days and weeks later. Most of the articles are from December 25th, 1941. That's 18 days later.
Read as many of these as you'd like. There's a lot of interesting stories about the men that both died, and the ones that survived.
Almost a month later, this family found out their son was safe
EXTEND
Take a look at this from 9/11/2001
Compare the words that were written that day to the stories written after 9/11.
How are they similar?
How are they different?
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