S1+Scheffler+Erich

=Stage 1 Identify Desired Results= E1. Historical Knowledge, Concepts, Themes, and Patterns 9-Diploma "The Vietnam War in the United States 1960-1975" b. Analyze and critique major historical eras, major enduring themes, turning points, events, consequences, and people in the history of the United States and world and the implications for the present and future. ||
 * **Establish Goals:** **(G)** ||
 * E. History

//What understandings are desired?//
• Student activism played a huge role in ending the war. • Media coverage of the war, especially on television, increased heavily during the Vietnam War, as opposed to that during World War II. ||
 * //Students will understand that:// **(U)** ||
 * • The Vietnam War changed America forever, both politically and culturally.

//What essential questions will be considered?//
• Why did the students protest the war? • In what ways did media coverage expand during the Vietnam War over other wars?||
 * **Essential Questions:** **(Q)** ||
 * • How did the Vietnam War change America?

//What key knowledge and skills will students acquire as a result of this unit?//
• Important Events and People: Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, Tet Offensive, Lyndon B. Johnson, Ho Chi Minh, etc. • Key Factual Information: Students will learn exactly what happened during the Vietnam War. || • Explain: Students will be able to explain the events of the Vietnam War. • Interpret: Students will interpret and critique various events in the war and viewpoints of major players. • Apply: Students will be able to apply what they learn to better understand other areas of history, and to current events. • Perspective: Students will analyze the opinions of the multiple sides of the war, and why each side did the things they did. • Empathy: Students will consider each side of the war, and why each side wanted to accomplish what they wanted to accomplish in the war. • Self-Knowledge: Students will recognize how their own lives were affected by the Vietnam War, although they were born a while after the war ended. ||
 * //Students will know:// **(K)** || //Students will be able to:// **(S)** ||
 * • Sequence and Timelines: Students will be taught a timeline of events during the Vietnam War in both Vietnam and America, and how those events linked to future events.

//**2004 ASCD and** **Grant Wiggins and JayMcTighe**//