Monday through Friday, April 25-29, 2016.
Oral History Transcripts DUE on Friday, April 29, by the end of the day.
Step-Up Teaching Day on Friday, 4/29 (Bixby will be teaching!).
Day 1, Monday, April 27: The Cold War.
In-class: Review the Cold War and legacies of the Second World War. Read and discuss primary source handouts on Cold War and Decolonization.
Primary source#1: The Truman Doctrine and Marshall Plan, 1947.
Primary source#2: B. N. Ponomaryov, "The Cold War: A Soviet Perspective," 1960.
Homework for Day 2/3: Read “The Twilight of Colonialism,” in The West in the World, eds. Sherman/Salisbury, pp. 752-757.
Also read and SOAPSTONE:
Primary source#3: Declaration of Independent of the Democratic. Republic of Vietnam (9/2/1945).
Primary source#4: Kwame Nkrumah, "I Speak of Freedom" (1961).
Primary source#5: Franz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth.
Key Terms and Persons: Apartheid, decolonization, post-colonialism, Gandhi, Satyagraha, nonviolence, Ho Chi Minh, Dien Bien Phu, Kwame Nkrumah, and proxy wars.
Homework Question#1: What was decolonization? What were the reasons for the end of European colonial rule, and what were some of the arguments made and the strategies used in the struggle over decolonization?
Homework question#2: What role did the United Nations and the Cold War, i.e., the US and USSR, play in this struggle?
Homework question#3: What were the consequences of decolonization and the legacies of colonial rule?
Day 2/3 - Long periods: Independent research.
Meet in library: Use class time for work on the oral history transcripts and capstone projects.
Day 2/3: Decolonization.
In-class: Discuss the readings on the history of post-1945 decolonization.
Homework for Day 4: Work on completing oral history transcripts.
Day 4: Step-Up Teaching Day.
In-class: Mark Bixby will teach classes on this day, to provide a sense of what eleventh grade US history will be like - ENJOY!
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