American History

This lesson asks students to consider the war years as equally important in pushing for racial equality.

Students will examine the historical interpretation of the origins of the Cold War and use primary documents to defend or refute a particular historical interpretation.

Class discussion on the end of the war in the pacific.

Students will write a 20-point persuasive essay explaining their decision on how to end WWII.

Draw conclusions about Pearl Harbor based on primary documents and reasoned discussion.

In this lesson students will continue with their examination of the dropping of the atomic bombs, this time focusing on varying historical perspectives. In particular this will include the Japanese perspective.

In this lesson students will be introduced to important background information on the dropping of the atomic bombs.

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

Students will be involved in drawing evaluative conclusions about our U.S. role in the world today and into the future based upon the direction provide by President Harry S. Truman beginning in 1945.

Journals/diaries written by the students from the viewpoint of Japanese Americans sent to the internment camps during WWII that include multimedia and social media aspects. This is an individual activity that is researched based with technology aspects that uses primary and secondary resources.