VIETNAM WAR

Objective

Students will analyze video footage, memoirs, and photographs in order to understand the conditions that soldiers faced in Vietnam both in combat and during their downtime and how that would affect moral.

Warm Up: What do the Photos below illustrate about the conditions of soldier in Vietnam?

Newsfootage

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3zNJ9yTdJY

Memoire

You have been given the memoire “Serving with Hawk Missiles” by Max Whittington.

You will read this and then write short response illustrating what this memoire can tell you about the average soldier’s experience in Vietnam. This should be 2-3 paragraphs and WILL collected today.

Feelings Check

Did we achieve our objective?Students will analyze video footage,

memoirs, and photographs in order to understand the conditions that soldiers faced in Vietnam both in combat and during their downtime.

Homework

Write a timeline of the events of Vietnam. There should be at least 13 important occurrences due 4/29!

Chapter 39 Quiz will be Monday! If you haven’t turned in the ARGO

Permission Slip the last day it will be accepted is Monday. If I don’t have it I’m assuming you don’t have permission and you will do the alternate assignment.