Teaching the Vietnam War
By John J. Fitzgerald (2007)
The material for "Teaching the Vietnam War" comes from a number of presentations that I have done over the past ten years to different teacher groups. Most often I have done it at the Social Studies Conference in Boston. It has always gotten a favorable response. I usually do a run through in about 2 hours time.
There are a number of easily adapted lesson plans in it and it gathers in one place a lot of valuable information for teachers. (I have a tape recording of the music unit that is quite useful. I can make copies of it for teachers at a cost of cassette basis.) I encourage teachers to buy the original tape cassettes or CDs to make their own classroom copies. I am not trying to cheat the artists of their royalties.
The divisions of the piece were done to allow me to send it over the web.
- Part 1: Some suggested lesson plans and approaches
- Part 2: A Brief Chronology of Vietnam, the United States and their Relations
- Part 3: Documents
- Part 4: Music of the Vietnam War Era
- Part 5: Six Myths of the Vietnam War
- Part 6: Lesson plans and suggestions
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