May 19-23, 2014

MONDAY - May 19
1. Current Events - Student News
2. Turn in "Stages of Prejudice" worksheet
3. Short Documentary "9066 to 9-11" & worksheet

TUESDAY - May 20
1. Discuss and correct worksheet - Japanese Internment process, connections to treatment of Muslim & Arab Americans after 9-11
2. 1943 Government Propaganda Film (9 minutes) justifying the internment of Japanese-Americans
SELECT HERE FOR LINK TO THE FILM
3. Actual footage (contraband home video) from inside the Japanese Interment Camps 

WEDNESDAY/THURSDAY - May 21/22
1. Small group to large group discussion - prejudice & protection of minority rights
If absent get a copy of the questions from Mrs.K, answer them & turn in
2. Decision to Drop the Bomb - background info, understanding primary source documents & making an ethical decision and defending it with evidence (**For the assignment (if your handout from class is missing) and both of the needed handouts go to the "Class Handouts..." tab and select the "World War II America folder")  DUE TUESDAY, MAY 27

FRIDAY - May 23
1. Trinity & Beyond - actual footage (previously classified government footage) and first person scientist accounts of the creation, testing and use of the atomic bomb - ADD TO YOUR ASSIGNMENT CHART as you watch the clips and interviews
SELECT HERE FOR LINK TO THE VIDEO CLIP This video is free but has commercials.  Just watch the first segments (up to the second commercial break - about 20 minutes)
2. Educational Videos from the 1950's that contains training drills to prepare school children from a nuclear attack (created by the Civil Defense Agency) - ADD TO YOUR ASSIGNMENT CHART as you watch the clips and interviews
SELECT HERE FOR CLIP - drills to prepare children for nuclear attack (tuck & cover)
SELECT HERE FOR  CLIP - nuclear war preparation for housewives - vintage film
SELECT HERE FOR CLIP - bomb shelter from the 1950's in someone's house today
SELECT HERE FOR CLIP - bomb shelter from the 1950's in the basement of a school
SELECT HERE FOR CLIP - gov't educational video on how to build a bomb shelter
SELECT HERE FOR CLIP - Civil Defense film on how to survive a nuclear attack
SELECT HERE FOR CLIP - gov't educational film on the effects of nuclear fallout
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