Tuesday, February 25, 2025

Tuesday, February 25, 2025

New Seats: Going to a party: you were all invited to a party. The host has asked each of you to bring one song you want to hear on the playlist and one appetizer to share with everyone. 

Vocabulary: Cost-Benefit, Return on Investment(ROI), Domino Theory, Soft Power (repeat)

Reading:

Circle: If Hollywood were to make a movie about your life—past, present, or future—what genre would you want it to be: spy-thriller? Rom-com? Adventure? Teen comedy? Drama? Something else?

Formatting: spend 10 minutes making sure your essay is formatted properly:

Paragraphs should all contain a warrant that does the following:  Says-Means-Matters

ID tag

Double spaced

Ariel or Times New Roman, 11- or 12-point font

Unit: Should America send troops to fight around the world? 

Learning Target: By the end of the unit, you will be able use various print and media sources to form an

opinion on a complex issue in order to make a reasoned decision.

Essential Question: What should we understand before we go to war?

Brainstorming: Write 5 lines about reasons you would support a war. What would make it “just”?

Share with your table and report out to the class.

Write another 5 lines about what would be a war you couldn’t support.  What would make it unjust?

Share with your table and report out to the class  

As a table, do so brief research about where there are current armed conflicts in the world. Which ones fit your definition of “just”? Which fit your definition of “unjust”?

Appeasement: Read a brief article (https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/appeasement-and-peace-our-time). Choose 3 quotes which connect to your own perceptions of what make a just or unjust war.

Share your quotes with your table then choose 2 from your whole group to report to the whole class.

Writing: Write at least 10 lines summarizing your ideas about just and unjust wars and what you would be willing to compromise about to avoid war.

Geography Pre-Test: Which Asian countries can you identify?

Class book: The Things They Carried

Vietnam Pre-thinking: