Unit Title: The 1960's

Grade level: 8
Length of unit: 2 weeks
Stage 1 Desired Results
Meaning
Enduring Understandings/Generalizations:

Essential Questions:

The decade of 1960's in US dealt with a lot of change and

turmoil
The US Foreign Policy was not a white dove with an olive
branch

How were the 1960's a time of extreme change and extreme

turmoil?
How did the events of the 1960's shape the American Culture
then and today?
Why was (is) the Vietnam War so important and how did it impact
people at home?

Knowledge & Skills Acquisition

Learning Goals: (e.g., Iowa/Common Core standards.)
Understand the historic reasons for conflicts within specific world regions. (SS.9-12.H.6)
Understand past government policies designed to change a country's population characteristics (SS.9-12.H.6)
Understand processes such as using a variety of sources, providing, validating, and weighing evidence for claims, checking credibility of
sources, and
searching for causality. (SS.9-12.H.7)
Understand relationships between and among significant events. (SS.9-12.H.7)
Understand facts and concepts drawn from history, along with methods of historical inquiry, to inform decision-making about and actiontaking on public issues. (SS.9-12.H.7)
Understand the process of critical historical inquiry to reconstruct and reinterpret the past. (SS.9-12.H.7)

 Understand the significance of important people, their work, and their ideas in the areas of political and intellectual leadership, inventions,
discoveries, and the arts. (SS.9-12.H.4)
Understand the role the values of specific people in history played in influencing history. (SS.9-12.H.4)
Understand the significant religious, philosophical, and social movements and their impacts on society and social reform. (SS.9-12.H.4)
Understand the effect of "chance events" on history. (SS.9-12.H.4)

Students will know

Different civil rights movements
Key civil rights leaders and figures:
MLK Junior
Rosa Parks
Malcolm X

Womens rights
Nation of Islam
Black Panthers
60's Music and Art
Who was JFK
About reforms in Education
Terminology:
Racism
Sexism

Students will be able to

Identify leaders of different civil rights movements

Explain what the civil rights movement were fighting for
Argue to what extent did the civil rights movements and its
participants have influence on government and policies
Identify the causes and effect of the Vietnam War
Make connections between US Foreign Policy, Cold War, and
Vietnam War
Make connections between Liberalism, Civil Rights and
Vietnam War
Analyze how the Vietnam war escalated
Understand how Cold War affected people across the world

Civil Rights
Desegragation
KKK
Cold War
Proxy War
Indo China
Communism
Liberalism
War Hawks
About the Golf of Tonkin Incident
Vietnam War Participants
Who was LBJ
How Vietnam War ended
Woodstock
Sputnik

Resources/Materials:
School History Book (Modern History, Histroy after 1660, American History, etc.)
YouTube Videos (Educational)
Laptop Computers
Computer Labs
Articles for Socratic Seminars
Interviewees

Stage 2 Evidence (Assessment)

Types of assessment: Selected-Response (tests, quizzes); Personal Communication (interview, oral exam, discussion);
Written Response (short constructed response questions, entrance/exit slips, essays); Performance Assessment (role-play,
Simulation, labs, dramatization)
Pre-assessment:
Discussion- I will ask questions at the beginning and figure out how much students already know and how much they are interested.

Formative Assessment:
Students will conduct Quick Writes?
Short Essay
Presentation

Summative Assessment:
Students will hold a debate on Pro- and Anti- Vietnam War.

Stage 3 Learning Plan

WEEK

DAY 1

DAY 2

DAY 3

DAY 4

DAY 5
Wrap up of the Previous
Unit. Unit Exit Test.

PreAssigned reading for the week-Civil rights and

the 1960's

Opening Exercise: What does it mean

to you when you hear the 1960's?
Students will discuss with their
neighbors.

Lecture (PP):
- Civil Rights issues in the
United states in 1960's Civil rights
Movements
Write on board brainstorm ideas of
Segregation in the
students, discuss.
South (Jim Crow),
KKK
Play Video clip of 1960'S. Examples
Women's Rights (pay,
Woodstock, riots in the streets of
voting, jobs, family,
United States, Cold War-Cuban Missile
kids, pregnancy)
Crisies, Vietnam War...
Civil Rights Act of
1960 and 1964
Black panthers,
Introduce Performance Summative
Malcom X, nation of
Assessment:
Islam
JFK and MLK
2 groups: Debate in second week on
pro and against Vietnam war.

Opening of the Lesson

will be a video clip about
the rioting in St. Loius
Missouri, after the
shooting of the unarmed
black teenager by St,
Loius Police that
happened this year.

Lecture (PP): -Era of

Hippies Woodstock
Art
Music (Beatles)
Economics (War
on Poverty)
Idea of Free
Spirit
Second Video is from
Support for
riots in the 1960's,
Gender and
Harlem, Detroit, and other
Racial Equality
places.
Main Question: Why do
people riot? (Critical
thinking, focus on the idea
of discrimination, not
riots)

Computer lab:
-Students (Alone or in
pairs) will find articles and
videos on hippies from the
1960's.

Short Video of MLK Speech

We will discuss the

question in class, students
Group work: What did you
get from the Speech? Why is it will come up with reasons
they think why people
emotional? Would you have
riot. I will write on board.
supported Dr. King?

Students will listen to

music, look up art and
write short essay on what
they found interesting
with being a hippie.

Presentation
Students will present
in front of the class
what they got from
their interview.
Check on progress on
debate

Write down the main idea of

the Speech. What kind
message did the speech carry?

Was discrimination a thing

of the past, or is it still
present?
Quick Write: Why do
people riot? Why did they
do it in the past and
today?
Check on progress for
debate

Get dressed like a hippie

and come Friday to
school!
Informative Assignment:
-Interview someone,
(Neighbor, Relative-aunt,
uncle, grandpa, ma, ) who
lived in the 1960'.
Tomorrow 2-4 minutes
presentation on what they
got from the interview.

Assigned reading: Vietnam War

Short Video on Vietnam War: Fighting

Scenes, Bombardment and Jungle fire
fights. The video will include dropping
of Agent Orange onto the jungle.

II

Learning Centers:
5 different stations will be set
up with 5 different topics. .
Each round will last 8 minutes
and students will rotate, for
Lecture (PP)- Start of Vietnam War and total of 40 minutes
How United States got involved
1) Cold War: Laptop computer Cold War era
short video on what cold war is
Communism vs. Democracy
USA vs. USSSR-Soviet Union and how it affected USA and
its people.
JFK (61-63)
LBJ (63-69) Escalation
2) Socratic Seminar: Topic is
Golf of Tonkin Incident
LBJ and JFK. Students will
North vs. South
read short bio on both and talk
USA Lost war
about + & - on both
Casualties
3) Pictures of weapons used
Short Youtube video on Vietnam War- with short info and damage
Timeline of the War
they did. Example gas-inhale
death
Assignment: Role Play
Students will assume role as Journalist, 4) Information on participants
Soldier, or Nurse. They will write an
for both sides (USA, South
essay on if Journalist-Article, Soldier- Korea etc.)
Letter back home, and Nurse-Personal
Journal.

DEBATE between
Pro- and AntiVietnam war.
( I will guide the
students to include
information that is
tied to the essential
question to use for
arguments)

Debrief Performance. UNIT

ASSESSMENT
RECAP AND
PREPARE FOR THE First part:
UNIT EXIT EXAM 10 selected response
questions.

Second Part:
2 short answer questions

One page.

5) Casualties: Laptop #2 How

the war ended and information
on casualties and outcome
Last 10 minutes Assessment:
3 short answer questions

UNIT EXIT EXAM: The 1960's

Name:
Class:
2 Part Exam: 20 Points Total
1st Part: 10 selected response questions (1 point each)
1) Martin Luther King gave his famous speech called _________________.
2) When was Martin Luther King assassinated? ________________.
3) Women in 1960's fought mainly against discrimination in _______ _______.
4) The Civil Rights Act of 1964 outlawed discrimination based on race, sex, color, religion, or national origin. (True or False)
5) People riot because they don't have anything better to do. (True or False)
6) Hippies in 1960's were supporting the war in Vietnam. (True or False)
7) USA's biggest enemy during the Cold war was _______________.
8) _______________ became President after JFK was assassinated.
9) The USA and the South won the Vietnam War? (True or False)
10) Communism is system of free enterprise and capitalism? (True or False)

2nd Part: 2 Short essay responses (5 points each)

1) Why were the 1960's time of turmoil in the USA and abroad?
2) What was the main reason USA entered into war with Vietnam?

Grading:
13-14 D 15-16 C 17-18 B 19-20 A

Grading criteria for essay response:

5 Points

4 Points

3 Points

2 Points

Student demonstrates
exceptional knowledge on
subject matter and his
response was excellent.

Student answered the

question accurately but
left some important details
out.

Student Showed some

Student struggled to
knowledge on the subject. answer the question.
Many details were left out,
but showed some
knowledge.

1 Point
Student did not show any
sign of knowledge. 1 point
for trying.