American History

After a review of African American military history, students will analyze three primary documents associated with President Truman's decision to desegregate the military.

This lesson uses the jigsaw method of cooperative learning to determine how President Truman felt about dropping the Atomic Bomb on Japan.

Allow students an opportunity to go back to America's WWII Home Front to examine various morale boosters in general ( radio, movies, etc. ), but particularly Major League Baseball.

The student will be able to analyze and determine central themes in George Orwell’s Animal Farm as these themes relate to the novel’s role as an allegory of Communism in Russia during WWII.

Students will determine which war crime trials were the most heinous during World War II and use evidence to build a case to convict the guilty.

Students will compare and contrast the United States Bill of Rights and the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

Students will research the impact of World War II on Major League Baseball and create a trading card using a draw program.

This assignment allows the students the opportunity to explore the vast amount of visual examples that address various aspects of the Cold War and offers new insight into the era.

Students should be able to make inferences as to the tenor of each conference, the state of mind of the participants and the importance of the photographs in relation to their background knowledge to support or refute: FDR was too physically ill at Yalta.

Students will analysis and evaluate primary documents, videos, excerpts from newspapers and books, and then in groups will create a persuasive essay supporting their point of view, including quotations from the provided sources.