Monday 12/1/25 (DEMON):

• Agenda:

•  Begin NOTES – WWII After 1941 (PPoint file below). Slides 1-9.

• Homework:

•  None.

• If absent:

•  Download, print and read NOTES – WWII After 1941 (PPoint file below). Slides 1-9.

Tuesday 12/2/25 (DEMON):  

• Agenda:

•  Watch Understanding D-Day (http://youtube.com/watch?v=7f2lUwGvW3A), and then “Saving Private Ryan” excerpt.

•  Voices of D-Day (https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/dday-voices/). Read and discuss as a class.

• Homework:

•  None.

• If absent:

•  Watch Understanding D-Day (http://youtube.com/watch?v=7f2lUwGvW3A). Then, read Voices of D-Day (MS Word file below).

Wednesday 12/3/25 (MAROON) & Thursday 12/4/25 (WHITE):

• Agenda:

•  Finish NOTES – WWII After 1941 (PPoint file below). Slides 10-14.

•  Role playing simulation: Advising President Truman – The Decision to Drop the Bomb (PDF file below).

• Homework:

•  None.

• If absent:

•  Download, print and read NOTES – WWII After 1941 (PPoint file below). Slides 10-14.

•  Read “Dropping the Atomic Bomb” at https://billofrightsinstitute.org/essays/dropping-the-atomic-bomb to make up today’s class (while today’s activity was a role-playing simulation that is hard to “make up” virtually, the same content can be understood in reading about it via the link just above).

Friday 12/5/25 (DEMON):

• Agenda:

•  Complete Notecatcher – The Pros and Cons of Using the Bomb (PDF file below), using Summary of Arguments For and Against Using the Bomb (PDF file below). Discuss.

•  Watch video: “Dropping the Bomb.”

• Homework:

•  None.

• If absent:

•  Download, print and complete Notecatcher – The Pros and Cons of Using the Bomb (PDF file below), using Summary of Arguments For and Against Using the Bomb (PDF file below).