US History Blended
Objectives:
- Explain the international and domestic tensions resulting from the Cold War.
- Analyze the American government’s effort to investigate citizen’s loyalty and its effects on society.
Bell Ringer:
Open McCarthyism Mock Trial Doc
Activities:
- Sit in groups
- Prepare Trial
- Mock HUAC Trial
- HUAC videos
IB 20th Century World p. 5
Objectives:
- Understand what empathy means and evaluate McNamara’s claims for its value and use as a foreign policy tool.
- Analyze and interpret the most important documents of the missile crisis to gain insight into the policy choices facing U.S. and Soviet leaders.
- Delineate the values surrounding international efforts to regulate war and analyze the role of bombing in modern warfare.
- Evaluate the role of ethics and proportionality in warfare and explore a framework for analyzing political violence and war.
- Investigate the role the film’s structure and form play in its meaning by considering the choices the director made with respect to the film’s genre—history or memoir?
Bell Ringer:
Sit in 5 Assigned Groups
Activities:
- Work on Fog of War Stations
- 3 rotations/20 min each
- Submit individual notes at end of each cycle
US History A p. 6
Objectives:
- Review ideas, terms and concepts related to the Cold War.
- Identify ideas, terms and concepts related to the Cold War.
- Analyze the causes and effects which resulted in the start of the Cold War and the methods the US used in that global struggle as well as evaluate their effects on American society.
Bell Ringer:
Take out a piece of paper/pencil or open Notes in iPad
Activities:
- Review Cold War Essays
- Complete Req Formative/See folder in Schoology
- Summative on Thursday!!!!