Thursday, July 15, 2021, United States History: Day 20

First Hour Independent Work

Into 5 minutes: Standards, Objectives, Attendance, and Agenda

Standards: 11.1.3, 11.8.5, 11.8.8, 11.9.3, 11.9.4, 11.10.4, 11.11.4, CST.1, CST.2, HREP.3, HREP.4, HI.1

Objectives: SWBAT

• Describe the Tet Offensive and its effect on the American People.
• Explain the domestic turbulence of 1968. 
• Describe the 1968 presidential election.
• Describe Nixon's policy of Vietnamization. 
• Explain the public's reaction to the Vietnam War during Nixon's presidency. 
• Describe the end of the U.S. involvement and the final outcome in Vietnam.
• Examine the war's painful legacy in the United States and Southeast Asia.

Warm Up 10 minutes: Summarize Objectives from the following day and answer question

1. How important is freedom of speech to you? Should you be able to say anything you want or are there some thing that should be prohibited? List Examples.

Reading 10 minutes: p. 744 The Roots of Opposition (Summarize Reading)
Video and Speech 20 minutes:
Mario Savio's Free Speech  
Mario Savio Free Speech Transcript

1. What are some of Mario Savio's grievances with the University?

Reading 15 minutes: p. 786-787 Signs of the Sixties (Summarize Reading)

First Hour Google Meet  
Video and reading 10 minutes: Woodstock Clip and Reading 

1. Why or why not should Woodstock be considered a significant event during the 1960s? What is its legacy?

Writing 10 minutes: Ch. 23.3 Culture and Counterculture p. 781-785

1. What lasting impact did the Counter Culture Movement have the on the nation?
2. If living during the 1960s, where do you think you would fit in with society?

Reading 10 minutes: p. 808-809

1. Based off the Television of the 1970's, what was life like? 

Lecture 20 minutes: The Nixon Administration & Watergate

Independent Work

Posters 25 minutes: p.768-780 Students create a poster in the following areas: The Latino Presence Grows, Latinos Fight for Change, Native Americans Struggle for Equality, A New Women's Movement Arises, The Movement Experiences Gains and Losses, The Movement's Legacy.

1. Title 
2. Summary
3. Significance

Key terms 20 minutes:

1. Cesar Chavez
2. United Farm Workers
3. La Raza Unida
4. American Indian Movement
5. Betty Friedan
6. feminism
7. National Organization of Women
8. Equal Rights Amendment
9. Phyllis Schlafly
10. Countercultrue
11. Haight-Ashbury
12. Beatles
13. Woodstock
14. Title IX

• Roe v. Wade 

Activity 20 minutes: p. 84-103 Using the Constitution to argue a case

1. Pick a side on Roe v. Wade 
2. using the Constitution, find three amendments that support your argument.
3. Write a cohesive statement suggesting why your opinion is correct under the guise of the constitution. 

• Affirmative Actions

Activity 20 minutes: p. 831

1. Pick a side to Affirmative Action
2. How should or does this play a role in college admissions.
3. Based on where we are as a nation, should affirmative action as a country still exist?

• Cesar Chavez 

Activity 20 minutes: p. 768-771

1. Who is Cesar Chavez 
2. What were his goals?
3. How did he try to accomplish his goals?
4. Were his goals accomplished?
5. Should immigrant students have the opportunity to be taught in bilingual schools?
6. What are the pros and cons of immigration?
7. Is immigration important for America?

Second hour of Google Meet 
Reading 10 minutes: p. 799-801

• Kissinger and Realpolitik 
• Nixon Visits China
• Nixon Travels to Moscow

Quiz 20-35 minutes: Vietnam Quiz 
Study Guide Final 2

Closing 5 minutes