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Data
Darkest Hour (1939-1941) (American Chronicles).
AIMS Multimedia, 1992 (Videodisc, CD-ROM,
Mac, Video).
Segments describe: Hitler's invasion in Europe,
the leadership of Roosevelt and
Churchill, and Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor.
Smithsonian radio broadcasts of the past are
available through bookstores such as Waldenbooks or Barnes and Noble.
HardTravelin'.
Guthrie,Woody.
ASCH Recording,
Vol. 3 (CD, Tape).
U.S.A. ( (Road to War). Coronet/MTI
Film and Video,
1989 ( (Video).
We Interrupt This Broadcast.
Garner,Joe.
Sourcebooks, Inc., 1938.
World War ll (United States History)
Schlessinger Media, 1996. Segments describe:
the upheaval in Europe and Asia, Pearl Harbor, industrial mobilization,
rationing, internment of Japanese Americans, the beginnings of the Atomic
Age.
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1.) Each student will record a two minute report
on one of the following topics related to W.W.II:
The Smithsonian's "Enola Gay" exhibit in 1995
Aftermath of bombing of Hiroshima
Hiroshima (based on John Hersey's Hiroshima)
"Insider information" on possible bombing of Nagasaki
Prisoners of war kept in U.S.
Internment of American citizens
Marshall Plan
Fictional Marshall Plan (based on Peter Sellers'
"Mouse That Roared")
Discovery of German concentration camps
General Eisenhower
Women in the war effort
Rationing of goods in the U.S.
German army's winter in russia
War in northern Africa
Germany's invasion of Poland
Germany's march into Paris
Japan's attack on China
Hitting the beach at Normandy
Firebombing of Dresden (based on Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse
Five)
Battle of Iwo Jima
The Nuremberg Trials
Bombing of Pearl Harbor
Swiss banks' involvement with Germany
V-E Day
V-J Day
2.) Students will present their "radio broadcast"
to the class.
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Teacher will provide each student with grading
sheets to use while listening to the student broadcasts.
Both the teacher and students will assess the
group using the student-developed criteria.
Students will share orally the strengths of
the presentation.
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