Unit 4: Lessons Plans

What is going on in WWII!

     In this unit we will be doing many group exercises, both small and large. Here we will examine the role that the Treaty of Versailles played in bringing WWII as well the Holocaust and it impact. You will be asked to state your opinion and think more critically about real situations and what you would do as well as express yourselves through pictures and words. There will be fewer graded projects in this unit then in the previous unit, but there will be a test and the Museum Project will be due at the end of this unit.

Introduced the Nazi Propagand Paper
Intro: Each row has 5 minutes to create a list of the causes of WWII (making sure everyone in your group has the list)
Looked at the Treaty of Versailles and what impact that had on WWII
Look at Allies/Axis list
Video Parity of Nazi Germany 
Discuss Pictures on page 787, 789, 790, 792 and map on page 791
Assign: Read Chpt 31 Sec 2, Map of WWII in Europe and Africa
 

Reviewed map of Europe
Divided the class into groups and assigned them each a country from Ch 31sec 2. Each group is to prepare a short lesson explaining their section to the class. Presented before the end of class.
Showed overheads of Hitler/Stalin
Assign: The Day that Lives in Infamy handout

Power Point on Pearl Harbor
Show pictures of Pearl Harbor
Video: USS Arizona and  Japanese POV
Did group work with the Japanese Internment Camp Handout. Each group was assigned parts of the article and asked to comment on what they meant
Assign: American Journey – p. 475-483 and outline all event of the war in Europe from 1943 to VE Day
 

In groups of five, using homework, had 10 minutes to combine info and make a total outline of events for the war in Europe
Given a large poster board, groups are expected to draw six images from outline.( may use no words for this assignment)
Students pass their posters around the room and write down what they think the images are of. 

Discuss the importance of each once each group has seen the other posters
Assign: American Journey  Chpt 18  Sec 2
 

A.     Summarize D-Day

B.     What were the problems faced

C.     What were the results

D.     Summarize one perspective

Assign: Black Book – 781-82 & Anne Frank Reading and define “Anti-Semitism, Final Solution, and Kristallnacht”

Use definitions of words from last nights homework to start a discussion on the Holocaust. Watched video on the Holocaust
Video – first two clips (Kristallnacht and St. Louis)
Show American Propaganda
Video – (Russian Ghetto)
Niemoller Quote
Video – (Sheltering Jews)
 “Spirit moves you” reading of Core Support page 65 Night
Video – (Viewer Dis.)
Overhead of Concentration and Death Camps and total killed
Read “A Normal Day in Auschwitz”. View Clip.
Read “The Choice”.View Clip
Answer the “Life in Extremes” scenarios
Nuremberg Trials was discussed before a wrap up
Assign: American Journey pages 478-79 and 485-487.  Read and outline the major events In the Pacific Theater of War, and complete thePacific War Map
 

War in the Pacific – have students keep maps on desk to refer to…
Finish by talking about Kamikaze
Assign: Write a haiku about the war in the pacific
 

Took volunteers to read Haiku
Show and discussed propaganda used during WWII
Read “After the Battle of Kwajalein” Discussed ques. 1,2, and 3
Looked at and discussed front page of Iwo Jima paper
Assign: Handout “The last stand before dropping of atomic bomb”. Create a Venn Iwo Jima and Okinawa  (bring American Journey to class tomorrow.)
 

Reviewed the Venn Diagram on Iwo Jima and Okinawa review on board
Read p 482 “Yalta”
Played FDR dies (audio clip)
Read p. 485 2^nd and 3^rd Paragraphs
Read p 483 “Ending War in Europe”
Played VE Day on CD of Radio Broadcasts
Discuss what could happen if there was a invasion of Japan
Read p 486 “The Manhattan Project” in blue section
Show 1^st two parts of Enola Gay Video: Building of Bomb and Potsdam Conference
Assign:  Read “Hiroshima: In the air and on the ground” handout. List the 3 most interesting, 3 most important, and 3 questions I had about the article
 

Discussed the Dropping of the First ever atomic weapon. Watch 1st part of Enola Gay video
Entire row gets together and discusses each person’s interesting facts and questions.  Watch 2^nd part of Enola Gay video
Discuss overhead of events leading to VJ day
American Journey p. 488 -  look at quotes
Discussion of Slang of 1940’s
Discuss Fact sheet of WWII
Review for test