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Topic:
U.S. Enters the War
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Topic:
Russian Revolution/ Armenian Genocide
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Topic:
U.S. in the War: The Home Front
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Topic:
Costs of War: Cash and Corpses
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Topic:
War is Over! Or is it?
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Objective:
-Students will be able to identify
propaganda and bias in the media
-Students will research and classify
censorship in the media and express their views on it
-Students will give examples of ways
that propaganda was utilized to draw the U.S. into the war
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Objective:
-Students
will be able to outline the events of the Russian Revolution
-Students will evaluate the consequences
of losing an ally in a conflict
-Students will discover how minority
voice was almost wiped out by the genocide in Armenia
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Objective:
-Students will interpret the growing
voice of neglected groups in America during the war
-Students will explore economic, demographic,
and political trends of this period
-Students will consider domestic support
for the war and the implementation of the draft in order to fight
it
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Objective:
-Students
will comprehend the terrible cost of the war in men and material
-Students will examine the futility
of the lengthy conflict
-Students will evaluate literature
that expresses this sense of futility
-Students will recall the voice of
the author in literature
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Objective:
-Students
will demonstrate knowledge of the content and purpose of the Treaty
of Versailles and President Wilsonâs Fourteen Points
-Students will practice conflict resolution
and mediation of disputes
-Students will assess the importance
of equitable treatment of the winners and losers after conflict
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Literacy:
-Students will build literacy in reading
newspapers, posters, cartoons, and song lyrics, assessing them for
bias and motive
-Students will build computer literacy
by researching these sources online for the project
-Students will write their analyses
of various media and evaluate the content of propaganda
-Students will write biased songs and
raps in class and as homework, or compose an essay on censorship
in the media that takes a stand for or against it in modern times
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Literacy:
-Students
will increase reading and writing literacy by reading letters of
Lenin and Trotsky, summarizing them, and writing a response
-Students will build vocabulary and
comprehension skills with this exercise
-Students will develop visual literacy
by explaining what is happening to whom, when, where, and why, in
photographs of the Armenian genocide
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Literacy:
-Students will build computer literacy
in researching unsung heroes or alternate role models on the internet
-Students will build mathematical literacy
in understanding charts, graphs, and statistics used to show trends
-Students will build reading comprehension
and vocabulary skills by reading quotes and political speeches
-Students will write a 1-page essay,
for homework, on one person or group that interested them from this
lesson
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Literacy:
-Students will build mathematical literacy
by analyzing various styles of charts showing the number of dead
and wounded
-Students will build literacy in reading,
evaluating, criticizing, and writing their views on selected poetry
-Students will gain computer literacy
in researching poetry online
-Students will gain verbal literacy
by reading poetry aloud in class and practice critical thinking
skills in analyzing it
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Literacy:
-Students
will gain literacy in reading, paraphrasing, and summarizing primary
source documents, while building vocabulary and familiarity with
sources
-Students will develop interpersonal
skills by role-playing delegates involved in writing these treaties
-Students will build writing skills
by creating their own peace treaties
-Students will build language literacy
by reading each otherâs treaties out loud in class and discussing
them
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