Social Studies: Domestic Politics and Reform
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8.9c Domestic Politics and Reform:: The Vietnam Era
- Hoping to stop the spread of communism, the United States backed South Vietnam with military aid.
- An expanding war in Vietnam drew a massive commitment of U.S. forces and sharply divided Americans.
- After the United States negotiated a peace and withdrew its forces, all of Vietnam came under Communist rule.
- President Nixon's accomplishments were overshadowed by the Watergate affair, which led to his resignation.
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8.9c Domestic Politics and Reform:: The Vietnam Era
What were the causes and effects of the Vietnam Conflict?
- How did Vietnam become a major battlefield in the war against communism?
- How did the demands of greater involvement in the Vietnam Conflict divide the nation?
- What were the causes and effects of the American withdrawal from Vietnam?
- What successes and failures marked Nixon's presidency?
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SS.8.9 |
DOMESTIC POLITICS AND REFORM: The civil rights movement and the Great Society were attempts by people and the government to address major social, legal, economic, and environmental problems. Subsequent economic recession called for a new economic program. |
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SS.I.1 |
Students will use a variety of intellectual skills to demonstrate their understanding of major ideas, eras, themes, developments, and turning points in the history of the United States and New York. |
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SS.I.2 |
Students will use a variety of intellectual skills to demonstrate their understanding of major ideas, eras, themes, developments, and turning points in world history and examine the broad sweep of history from a variety of perspectives. |
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SS.I.4 |
Students will use a variety of intellectual skills to demonstrate their understanding of how the United States and other societies develop economic systems and associated institutions to allocate scarce resources, how major decision-making units function in the United States and other national economies, and how an economy solves the scarcity problem through market and non-market mechanisms. |
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SS.I.5 |
Students will use a variety of intellectual skills to demonstrate their understanding of the necessity for establishing governments; the governmental system of the United States and other nations; the United States Constitution; the basic civic values of American constitutional democracy; and the roles, rights, and responsibilities of citizenship, including avenues of participation. |
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College, Career, and Civil Life (C3) Skills
Dimension 1: Developing Questions and Planning Inquiries
- D1.5.6-8. Determining the kinds of sources that will be helpful in answering compelling and supporting questions, taking into consideration multiple points of views represented in the sources.
Dimension 2: Applying Disciplinary Concepts and Tools
- Civics D2.Civ.3.6-8 Examine the origins, purposes, and impact of constitutions, laws, treaties, and international agreements.
- Geography D2.Geo.10.6-8. Analyze the ways in which cultural and environmental characteristics vary among various regions of the world.
- History D2.His.6.6-8. Analyze how people's perspectives influenced what information is available in the historical sources they created.
- History D2.His.13.6-8. Evaluate the relevancy and utility of a historical source based on information such as maker, date, place of origin, intended audience, and purpose.
Dimension 3: Evaluating Sources and Using Evidence
- D3.1.6-8. Gather relevant information from multiple sources while using the origin, authority, structure, context, and corroborative value of sources to guide the selection.
Dimension 4: Communicating Conclusion & Taking Informed Action
- D4.2.6-8. Construct explanations using reasoning, correct sequence, examples, and details with relevant information and data, while acknowledging the strengths and weaknesses of the explanations.
NCSS Essential Skills for Life
- Use picture, clues and picture captions to aid comprehension
- Read for a variety of purposes: critically, analytically, to predict outcomes, to answer a question, to form an opinon, to skim for facts
- Write reports and research papers
- Prepare a bibliography
- Use map-and-globe-reading skills
- Place data in tabular form: charts, graphs, illustrations
- Recognize instances in which more than onen interpretation of factual material is valid
- Examine critically relationships between and among elements of a topic
- Combine critical concepts inot a statement of conclusions based on information
- Prepare a research paper that requires a creative solution to a problem
- Contribute to the development of a supportive climate in groups
- Participate in persuadiing, compromising, debating, and negotiating in the resolution of conflicts and differences
- Identify situations in which social action is required
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8.9c Domestic Politics and Reform:: The Vietnam Era
- domino theory
- guerrilla
- escalate
- napalm
- hawks
- doves
- conscientious objector
- boat people
- inflation
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- Do Now Questions
- Socrative Entrance/Exit Tickets
- Polls
- Interactive Readings
- Graphic Organizers
- Thinking Maps
- Common Core Protocols
- Comprehension Assessments
- Writing Assessments
- Map Quiz
- Quizzes
- J. Dodge Differentiated Activities
- Marzano Strategies
- Primary Source Documents
- Document Based Questions
- Political Cartoons
- Constructed Response Questions
- Chapter Test
- Research Paper
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- 25 Quick Formative Assessments - Judy Dodge
- America: History of our Nation - Prentice Hall
- OneNote
- Interactive Reading
- PearsonSuccessNet.com
- Common Core State Standards for ELA- Text Exemplar-Olsen, Todd. "The Vietnam War"
- Common Core State Standards for ELA- 8th Grade- Module 1- Lai, Thanhha. Inside Out and Back Again.
- Microsoft MovieMaker
- Toolkit Inquiry: Vietnam
- Quizlet
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