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The 1940s: A Decade of Change Teacher Guide + 1 Year License
Author(s): COLLEGE OF WILLIAM & MARY
Edition: 3
Copyright: 2024
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For grades 7-9, this unit provides an opportunity to look at the historical events and social issues of the 1940s through the literature of the decade, including fiction and nonfiction selections. Numerous opportunities for reading, writing, listening, and speaking are incorporated into the unit. Each student is required to pose a hypothesis and conduct research concerning some issue of significance that arises out of the literature that is studied.
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- Acknowledgments
- The William & Mary Center for Gifted Education Units
- Section 1: Unit Introduction and Curriculum Framework
- Section 2: Teaching Tips for Implementing This Unit
- Section 3: Lesson Plans
- Lessons:
- Lesson 1: Introduction and Preassessment
- Lesson 2: The Concept of Change
- Lesson 3: The 1940s: An Introduction
- Lesson 4: Preparing an Interview and the Power of Picture Books
- Lesson 5: War Poems of Carl Sandburg
- Lesson 6: Persuasive Writing
- Lesson 7: Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl
- Lesson 8: Reasoning
- Lesson 9: Living in Hitler’s Germany and Japanese Americans in the 1940s
- Lesson 10: Introduction to Research
- Lesson 11: “One Friday Morning”
- Lesson 12: American Culture in the 1940s
- Lesson 13: Maus II
- Lesson 14: “Address Unknown”
- Lesson 15: Synthesizing Research
- Lesson 16: Soldiers’ Stories
- Lesson 17: The Sound of Music
- Lesson 18: Fireside Chat: Sharing Stories from Interviews
- Lesson 19: Hiroshima
- Lesson 20: Presentation of Research
- Lesson 21: Preparing for a Panel Discussion
- Lesson 22: An Expert Panel Discussion
- Lesson 23: Closing Discussion of Change over the Decades
- Lesson 24: Postassessment of Literary Interpretation and Persuasive Writing
- Lesson 1: Introduction and Preassessment
- Section 4: Grammar Study
- Section 5: Appendices
COLLEGE OF WILLIAM & MARY
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