Wed. Sept 22 - PERIOD 4

Objectives:

Students will be introduced to key concepts of 'primary sources' and 'historical research process'.

Students will be introduced to a variety of topics suitable for NHD

Do Now: Examine this site on US choices for diplomacy and war. ON YOUR BLOG, list 3-5 things you learned.

Classwork:

• Read What is a Primary Source

• Students will discuss with classmates: What is HISTORICAL RESEARCH?
• Students will examine and discuss several examples of NHD theme Debate and Diplomacy: Successes, Failures and Consequences
• Students will brainstorm ideas for further research and email mirandagt2014@gmail.com
  

Examples

What successful debates helped the American Revolution?

• Thomas Paine

What failures of diplomacy caused the American Revolution?

• Ben Franklin in England

The Decision to drop the Atomic Bomb
(Hiroshima, Nagasaki)

Origins of the Immigration Debate

Debates in framing the Constitution:

• 3/5th compromise
• States rights vs Federal Rights
• What is the debate over the 2nd Amendment? What are consequences?

Debates about civil liberties

• Censorship
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Consequences of reform movements

• Temperance/Rise of Organized Crime
• Temperance/Women winning Right to Vote (19th amendment)

Supreme Court Debates

• Brown v Board
  

!!!TOPIC MADNESS!!!

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