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Topic: World War II lesson plans
Posted By: Reb Cpl
Subject: World War II lesson plans
Date Posted: 14 November 2005 at 9:45pm
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I'm in something of a bind. I need to come up with 10 lesson plans for teaching a unit on WWII. anyone have any ideas? I've got a couple of image analysis plans, a timeline, an internet reserach project and a 'letter home' activity. I need at least 3 more.....did any of your teachers out there do anything interesting when you learned about WWII? Anything at all that Reb could steal? Its not VITAL, I could come up with a few more on my own, but I figured I'd draw on you guys for a while. ------------- ? |
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Posted By: hoginds24
Date Posted: 14 November 2005 at 9:48pm
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Hmm, what about a looking to the future activity or somehting? Give examples of key events that could have gone either way, and ask how it would affect us and the world now. Or you could go more radical. I always found relating to students works the best to teach.... I find Brothers in Arms gives a good WWII environment depiction. Maybe show them some of the gameplay and explain all the different elements. ------------- [IMG]http://img299.imageshack.us/img299/6924/willproducsv6.jpg"> |
Posted By: Reb Cpl
Date Posted: 14 November 2005 at 9:49pm
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I know alot about it too, but I'm strapped for ideas on how to TEACH it. ------------- ? |
Posted By: redneckdeerhntr
Date Posted: 14 November 2005 at 9:50pm
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we watched a vidieo in the 5th grade on it.And this other time we did this thing where are teacher split us into groups and we came up with ideas on what things might have stopped the USA from moving faster in the war. BTW what grade are you teaching
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Posted By: Clark Kent
Date Posted: 14 November 2005 at 9:50pm
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German Nazis = very bad Italian Nazis = pretty bad French = cowards British = stiff upper lip Jews = dead Japanese = not understanding "master race" concept Polish = taking "cavalry" too seriously Russians = cold Americans = leaving their wives back home with the milkman |
Posted By: Reb Cpl
Date Posted: 14 November 2005 at 9:51pm
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I think I'm gearing this toward 8th grade. It's alot easier to come up with plans for them as opposed to 11th grade where you have to do more analysis stuff. ------------- ? |
Posted By: evillepaintball
Date Posted: 14 November 2005 at 9:54pm
| videos, videos and video worksheets |
Posted By: Reb Cpl
Date Posted: 14 November 2005 at 9:56pm
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^^not a bad idea, but I dont want to rely on videos too much. I'm thinking of showing a clip from band of brothers....haven't decided yet. ------------- ? |
Posted By: hoginds24
Date Posted: 14 November 2005 at 9:57pm
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Band of Brothers is a great example. You can get the environmental aspect across but not the brotherhood thing. ------------- [IMG]http://img299.imageshack.us/img299/6924/willproducsv6.jpg"> |
Posted By: Reb Cpl
Date Posted: 14 November 2005 at 10:00pm
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I was going to use scenes from it to demonstrate combat environment. I thought about the opening scene from Saving Private Ryan, but I dont know if I'd get clearance to do that with 8th graders. ------------- ? |
Posted By: mbro
Date Posted: 14 November 2005 at 10:01pm
I took WWII history last year and my professor was just so retarded that I can't even help you. ------------- 
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hoginds24 wrote:Posted By: NotDaveEllis
Date Posted: 14 November 2005 at 10:01pm
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Effects on life at home
Showing the attitude of the people at home, since these 8th graders are probably just seeing negative reactions to the war in Iraq now, etc WW2 Living conditions (Make them go outside and dig a foxhole) Photos of the Aftermath Give kids a chance to find a WW2 vet and interview them if they're willing. Extra props if they're were a German or something. |
Posted By: Reb Cpl
Date Posted: 14 November 2005 at 10:05pm
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^^ Now THAT I like. dave. It's been incorporated into my project. thanks. I need ONE more good one. ------------- ? |
Posted By: bravecoward
Date Posted: 14 November 2005 at 10:08pm
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i wish you were my teacher. what we're learning about wwII is everything i know about.
stupid history channel. |
Posted By: Boss_DJ
Date Posted: 14 November 2005 at 10:08pm
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Posted By: NotDaveEllis
Date Posted: 14 November 2005 at 10:12pm
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Oh and one last one
The usually untaught lesson How Chuck Norris won WW2 by himself |
Posted By: Clark Kent
Date Posted: 14 November 2005 at 10:14pm
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Did Dave just make several useful and entirely non-sarcastic comments? |
Posted By: Reb Cpl
Date Posted: 14 November 2005 at 10:25pm
Yes....and don't bring it to his attention, I need his brain. If you bring it up, he might just lose focus.
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Posted By: reifidom
Date Posted: 14 November 2005 at 10:28pm
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I tried, but didn't get a spot on the roster, to interview WWII vets for my history class last year. I was really looking forward to it too. The interview of a vet will drive home the human element more than anything else, and we won't have that resource for much longer.
In middle school we had a Jewish survivor of the holocaust come and speak to us. Seeing his number tatoo was sobering, and hearing his personal account was facinating. See if you can find a group of survivors in your area to come and speak to the class. You might set up a lesson where you give the students the situation surrounding the dropping of the atomic bomb and let them decide whether or not they would make the same choice. I might be able to come up with more, but I have to step away for a minute. ------------- 
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Posted By: amishman89
Date Posted: 14 November 2005 at 10:34pm
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The Saving Privaye Ryan idea is very good one. Id say let them do a interview with a vet. Maybe each kid writes the vets story(there experinces,etc) down and type it up. Put them all together and make a book and print it out and give it to each of the kids so they have a whole mini book of war stories. Each story about 2 pages. Maybe print the book out and the kids give them back to the vets they intervewed. Every one benifits. ------------- Only Hugh can prevent florist friars. |
Posted By: oldsoldier
Date Posted: 14 November 2005 at 11:00pm
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Would suggest seeing the war from both sides of the soldiers/sailors/airman not the politics. Saving Private Ryan/Band Of Brothers for American view, Das Boot/Cross of Iron for German view. Each shows the soldiers/sailors views and futility of war. The landing scene in Private Ryan, the load up before the Normandie drop in BoB, the tanker on fire with survivors running and jumping scene from Das Boot with U-Boat deck crew in tears, and the initial Russian front trench life scene from Cross of Iron.
Political views would be to contraversal, but seeing the serviceman from both sides seeing fighting for country, illregardless of cause is of interest. ------------- 
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Posted By: Clark Kent
Date Posted: 14 November 2005 at 11:27pm
| Or, to step off the beaten path, you could show The Downfall, and assign Mein Kampf as reading. |
Posted By: Strife_17
Date Posted: 14 November 2005 at 11:36pm
| In the history courses i have taken that have dealt with WWII they all seem to underplay the Holocaust itself. I am currently taking a course on the holocaust and it offers alot of insight on not only the war itself but some of the backround of why it started and with of course the horrible persecutuion in Europe during the time. While the holocaust may not be directly tied into American History(based on some of the previous statements and what i took in 8th grade i assume we are talking about American History) It certainly was the reason why Europe fell int othe state of war. Im sure your student would also be very surprised at soem of the Antisemitism during the time in American and that Henry Ford actually favored Hitler and Help With the Designs of the Volkswagon. |
Posted By: Clark Kent
Date Posted: 14 November 2005 at 11:41pm
| There's one - schedule a field trip to the Holocaust Museum. Just a quick bus ride away for you, Reb... |
Posted By: Strife_17
Date Posted: 14 November 2005 at 11:47pm
| Although i have never been there from what i have heard it can be quite a moving place. it would probably be nearly impossible ot get through even a quarter of it on a filed trip in a short period of time ... perhaps offer extra credit to those who go if you do teach in a nearby area. |
Posted By: NotDaveEllis
Date Posted: 14 November 2005 at 11:58pm
I don't remember 8th grade much, but Downfall was definitely a pretty heavy movie, good at that. I think they would be able to pull some from that |
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Date Posted: 15 November 2005 at 12:29am
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Posted By: oldsoldier
Date Posted: 15 November 2005 at 8:58am
Clark...History lesson Italians were Facists, not National Socialists jeeze, thought you were perfect -------------
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Posted By: Snake6
Date Posted: 15 November 2005 at 9:03am
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He was a 1st LT not a Sargent.... ------------- 
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Posted By: ShortyBP
Date Posted: 15 November 2005 at 9:04am
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Posted By: Snake6
Date Posted: 15 November 2005 at 9:21am
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ditto -------------
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Posted By: impulse!
Date Posted: 15 November 2005 at 10:13am
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Rise and fall of 3rd reich. How Hitler came to power. Military stratagies both sides had. Effect of all of europe. France being destroyed, Britain being destroyed. End the unit with the bombing Nagasaki and Hiroshima. And tell your students the A-bomb does not explode on impact, it exploded give or take a mile above to it would act like an umbrella to cause more destruction. But explain it had to be used because if we invaded we would of lost 1 million soldiers. Interment camps in the US. Everyone talks about concentration but forgets about what the US did. If you really want to go into how the Jews were treated tell the students the methods the Nazis used. Like Zyclom(s) B was the main poison used. More than 4 million non-jews but infeary races were also killed.
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Posted By: Cacowroth
Date Posted: 15 November 2005 at 10:21am
I'd plan out the basics, and why events occured. Then tack on interesting details. Use humor. That will keep the class awake. Be ready for any questions, have a list of possible questions they might ask even if they don't ask them. If you come up with a question whose subject can be used to teach them, tack it onto the teaching. I'd make it like a story. ------------- My name is Geoduck. Password: "dsvbgfnmmngbzvbgnhjkj" Penis was here tom was here |
Posted By: jmac3
Date Posted: 15 November 2005 at 10:24am
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And it was Foy not Carentan.......
But that was amazing...I wanted to know if that really happened, but it wasn't in the book. They could have added it even though I think the living members of Easy company would have been mad.
I wish I could help, but all we did to learn about WW2 was watch movies. I don't like that. ------------- Que pasa? 
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Posted By: Snake6
Date Posted: 15 November 2005 at 11:00am
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You are right, that wasnt in the book. I am assuming it is real though, being as the show was reviewed by the Men of Easy Company before it was aired... -------------
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Posted By: amishman89
Date Posted: 15 November 2005 at 8:10pm
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Band of Brothers is probably one of my favorite war movie(s). I think it would be cool to show the whole thing but you probably dont have enough time to show it all. too bad. ------------- Only Hugh can prevent florist friars. |
Posted By: bluemunky
Date Posted: 15 November 2005 at 8:11pm
The administrators probably wouldn't approve, but I loved that stuff when I was in 8th grade. -------------  
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Posted By: cdacda13
Date Posted: 15 November 2005 at 8:26pm
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Damn, I wish I didn't ditch my history notes from last year. Please try to get the Pacific battles involed into the lesson plan. I noticed that A LOT of teachers dont focus on them as much as they do on the european battles. Good research question. Why did America, after taking over and destorying Japen, did we rebuild the country? |
Posted By: bluemunky
Date Posted: 15 November 2005 at 9:00pm
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Because we're America, everyone knows that.
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Posted By: Klaus
Date Posted: 15 November 2005 at 10:31pm
And I quote from the book sitting in front of me, page 211, thrid paragraph... Standing at the site in 1991 with Winters and Malarkey, Lipton remembered Speirs's dash. He also recalled that when they got to the outbuildings of Foy, Speirs wanted to know where I Company was. "So he just kept on running right through the German line, came out the other side, conferred with the I Company C.O., and ran back. Damn, that was impressive" Don't knock MBro, he's got back-up... |
Posted By: Badsmitty
Date Posted: 15 November 2005 at 10:51pm
| I did something like what you are doing, but it was on the Korean War. I used letters from my Uncle to my Grandmother. I read four letters from him about how he enjoyed the cookies that she sent and how he missed home. His letters were very well written and you could tell that he was trying to put her at ease. In the next to last letter that I read to the class, he told her that "something big was happening tomorrow and I may not get to write for a little while." The final letter was from General McArthur sending his condolences to my Grandmother. When I read that last letter, the adults and kids had this weird collective sigh that just kind of moved through the room. |
Posted By: brihard
Date Posted: 15 November 2005 at 11:08pm
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How about a photo essay- make them research and print off X number of photos (whatever's appropriate for the age level; I'll use ten as an example) with a brief explanation fo the significance of each. For instance, say two photos of the home front, 2 of the soldiers' lives, 3 of the European front and 3 of the Pacific front. Not a aprticularly difficult assignment, but you'll get a lot of very interesting variety form different students.
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Date Posted: 18 November 2005 at 11:51pm
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Posted By: lester98c
Date Posted: 18 November 2005 at 11:59pm
| i have a power point on wolrdwar 2 if you want it, its my moms who is a history teacher |
Posted By: ninety8freak
Date Posted: 19 November 2005 at 12:01am
show them the first few scenes of full metal jacket.
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Posted By: Strife_17
Date Posted: 19 November 2005 at 10:08am
| Thats vietnam... |
Posted By: Da Hui
Date Posted: 19 November 2005 at 10:38am
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bring in food, that allways gets attention ------------- 
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Posted By: oreomann33
Date Posted: 19 November 2005 at 12:25pm
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Just tell the kids to put there head down.
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Posted By: WUNgUN
Date Posted: 19 November 2005 at 12:45pm
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Posted By: bluemunky
Date Posted: 19 November 2005 at 1:16pm
You're 20 some years off there. -------------
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Posted By: Homer J
Date Posted: 19 November 2005 at 1:19pm
Bring them some C-rations. |
Posted By: Snake6
Date Posted: 19 November 2005 at 1:35pm
lol Im sure that would go over well...
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