America and World War II, 1941-1945
Chapter 10-11
***Homework Packet: The Origins of World War II
Graphic Organizer: The Rise of Dictators
Letter to the Editor: Responding to Hitler's Aggression
***Homework Packet: From Neutrality to War
Timeline: Intro to Pearl Harbor
***Homework Packet: Wartime America
Warm-Up: World War II Recruitment Clip
Farewell to Manzanar Reading Questions
*Project: Farewell to Manzanar
Rosie the Riveter Poster AnalysisÂ
***Homework Packet: The War in the Pacific
Bubble Map: War in the Pacific
***Homework Packet: The War in Europe
Article: Our Decision to Fight in Europe
***Homework Packet: The War Ends
Graphic Organizer: Notes: End of WWII
Atomic Bomb Primary Source Analysis
Postwar America, 1950s
Chapter 13
***Homework Packet: The Affluent Society
Clip: American Life in the 1950s
Notes: American Society Through 1950s
Tom Lehrer, "So Long Mom: WWIII"
Tom Lehrer, "I Hold Your Hand in Mine"
Analyzing Primary Sources: Women in 1950s
Graphic Organizer: Women in 1950s
Little Boxes Lyrics
Film: Crisis in Levittown, PA (1957)
The Cold War, 1945-1960
Chapter 12
***Homework Packet: The Origins of the Cold War
Activities: Iron Curtain Speech (p. 13-15)
***Homework Packet: The Early Cold War Years
Activities: Truman Doctrine & Marshall Plan (p. 16-18)
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
Jimmie Osborne: Korean War Song (1950)
Our Relationship With Korea Today
***Homework Packet: The Cold War and American Society
Warm-Up: The Butter Battle Book
McCarthyism: Political Cartoon Analysis
Warm-Up: Duck and Cover Clip (1951)
Contemporary History: Fear of Nuclear War Today
Developing a Cartoon: Mutual Assured Destruction
The Civil Rights Movement, 1954-1968
Chapter 15
Book: The Autobiography of Malcolm X
***Homework Packet: The Movement Begins
Discussion Chart: Intro to Civil Rights Unit
Notes: Origins of the Movement
Brown v. Board of Education Excerpt
Article: The Doll Test & Brown v. Board of Education
Packet: Montgomery Bus Boycott
***Homework Packet: Challenging Segregation
***Homework Packet: New Civil Rights Issues
Primary Source Documents: MLK & Malcolm X
The Vietnam War, 1954-1975
Chapter 16
**NOVEL: The Things They Carried
Reading Questions: The Things They Carried
***Homework Packet: Going to War in Vietnam
History Detectives: Vietnam Diary
***Homework Packet: Vietnam Divides the Nation