Sutter, Kate

Students will use the SWOT method (Strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats) to synthesize knowledge about the end of Reconstruction.

Students will apply new knowledge of technology as well as review prior knowledge of previous time periods by compare/contrasting images of total war from multiple eras.

Students will look at a campaign button from losing candidate Dewey in the 1948 election. They will then weigh the merits of using the slogan in a short writing assignment.

Students will analyze Thomas Nast's Sacred Elephant cartoon from 1884 and relate it to their knowledge of the Garfield/Arthur administration

This will introduce units on Modern Terrorism. It will also help increase their awareness, foster collaboration, and practice the skill of chronology.

Students will work individually or in pairs to analyze Norman Rockwell's Family Squabble.

Students will analyze eyewitness descriptions of the firebombing of Tokyo and respond to it in a method of (mostly) their choosing.

A lesson focusing on foreign policy.

Technology based, individual or partner analysis of a primary source, or use as a station on an Interactive board if students are doing several different activities at the same time.

Students will analyze oral histories related to the Marshall Plan.