A Time for Greatness: Tone Analysis of Kennedy Presidential Campaign Speeches
This unit will use primary documents to provide practice in close reading, in identifying tone, and in applying tone recognition to an analysis of nuance in content.
Student will investigate and compare the personal experiences included in Rod Hersey; book Hiroshima with the first-hand account of American Nikolay Palchikoff’ visit to Hiroshima three weeks after the bomb.
Have the students research the phrase, find the document where it originally appeared, discuss its origin or what the people who first used it were trying to accomplish/say.
Students will review primary source documents, secondary resources and related news articles and current events relating to the events and impact of the test of the atomic bomb at White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico on July 16, 1945.
President Truman's Civil Rights Policies Leading to Desegregation of the Military
After a review of African American military history, students will analyze three primary documents associated with President Truman's decision to desegregate the military.