Unit+9

__Readings__: - Text: Chapters 27-29 - Video: //In the Spirit of Crazy Horse// (AIM Movement) - Book Excerpts: //A People’s History of the Vietnam War// - Video: //Letters Home from Vietnam// __Themes__: 1. Cycle of economy before, during, & after war 2. When teenagers got their own money & the market trends since then 3. How TV changed politics, war, and everything else 4. Vietnam, JFK’s assassination, 1968, & Watergate: America loses its innocence 5. “All men are created equal”: Women and minorities continue the struggle 6. The legacy of the Vietnam War & what America’s enemies have learned 7. Power of the people to influence politicians __Content__: · Development of Youth Culture & its economic power · Foreign policy under Eisenhower · John F. Kennedy & his New Frontier · Civil Rights Movement · Martin Luther King · Vietnam War: escalation è pull out · “The Sixties Generation” and the antiwar movement · Johnson’s War on Poverty · America’s forgotten minorities speak out (Black Power, Sisterhood, Gay rights, Chicanos, American Indian Movement, & Asian American Movement) · 1968  ·  Nixon & Watergate __Projects__: Students must watch a specific amount of TV for 1 week and record evidence of the teenage perspective on commercials and shows. Students should see how shows and commercials cater to teen viewers and consumers by such things as making kids smarter than the parents (i.e. Simpsons, South Park, etc). __Document Based Questions__: 1. By the end of the 1960s American society had undergone many major changes. Using the documents and your knowledge of the time period 1950-1970, discuss these changes in relation to race, gender, and economic condition. 2. Using the documents and your knowledge of the period, analyze the extent to which the Vietnam War was the cause of the social and political upheaval of the 1960s. __Discussions__: 1. Has it been a “good” thing for teenagers to have so much economic power? 2. The great contradiction: America refused to allow free elections in Vietnam, because they believed if communists won power, they wouldn’t allow free elections. 3. Gulf of Tonkin: When conspiracy theories prove true 4. Are most people skeptical about the govt.? If so, what could change that? 5. Can Americans overcome their fear of another Vietnam War? If so, how? 6.  Affirm. Action & Political Correctness: MLK’s dream or goodwill gone wrong?
 * Unit 9: 1950s ****è ** ** 1970s (3 weeks) **
 * Teen Perspective on TV: **

__Movies__: **[|Born on the Fourth of July]** - The biography of Ron Kovic. Paralyzed in Vietnam, he became an anti-war and pro


 * [|American Graffiti]****- A couple of high school grads spend one final night cruising the strip with their buddies before they go off to college.**


 * [|Thirteen Days]**- Set during the two-week Cuban missile crisis in October of 1962, this film centers on how JFK, Robert Kennedy, and others handled the explosive situation.


 * [|The Right Stuff]****- The Mercury 7 astronauts and the beginning of the space program.**


 * Amazing Grace & Chuck****- After touring a nuclear silo, a boy decides to protest until nuclear weapons are disarmed. The movement that follows makes the world listen.**

[|Malcolm X] - The biography of the controversial and influential Black Nationalist leader. **
 * [|Red Dawn]**- It is the dawn of World War III. In mid-western America, a group of teenagers bands together to defend their town, and their country, from invading Soviet forces.
 * [|Mississippi Burning]****-FBI investigates the disappearance of civil rights activists in MS.**


 * [|Forrest Gump]****– One simple man’s journey through some of history’s most pivotal moments and his personal struggle to win his true love.**


 * [|We Were Soldiers]**- The first major battle of the American phase of the Vietnam War and the soldiers on both sides that fought it.


 * [|Full Metal Jacket]**- A Marine observes the dehumanizing effects the Vietnam War has on his fellow recruits, from their brutal basic training to the bloody street fighting set in 1968.


 * [|Platoon]** **- A young recruit in Vietnam faces a moral crisis when confronted with the horrors of war and the dual nature of man.**


 * [|Apocalypse Now]****– In Vietnam, a captain is sent on a mission into Cambodia to assassinate a renegade Green Beret, who has set himself up as a God among a local tribe.**


 * [|The Deer Hunter]**– A look at the way Vietnam affected the lives of people in a small, industrial town and the veterans who came home.


 * Woodstock** – A documentary chronicle of the legendary 1969 music festival.


 * [|Hair] (musical)-** human rights activist after feeling betrayed by the U.S. government.


 * [|Bobby] -** A re-telling of the assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy at the Ambassador Hotel in 1968.


 * [|Nixon]** - A biographical story of U.S. president Richard Nixon, from his days as a young boy to his eventual presidency, which ended in shame.


 * [|All the President’s Men]****- Reporters Woodward and Bernstein uncover the details of the Watergate scandal that led to President Nixon's resignation.**


 * [|Milk] –** The story of California’s first openly gay elected official, Harvey Milk.


 * [|Frost/Nixon]** - When disgraced President Richard Nixon agreed to an interview with David Frost, he thought he’d save his tarnished legacy. But Frost became one of Nixon’s most formidable adversaries and engaged him in a battle of wits that changed politics forever.

[|Charlie Wilson’s War] **- Based on the true story of playboy congressman Wilson's efforts to fund Afghanistan's defense against the Soviet invasion of the 1980s
 * [|Jacknife]** - A conflict develops between a troubled Vietnam veteran and the sister he lives with when she becomes romantically involved with an army buddy, who reminds him of the tragic battle they both survived.
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