American History Lesson Plans September6-9
Tuesday: (See Pearson Realize.com for specific assignments by day online)
Objectives:
- Describe efforts of Pres. Truman and the House Un-American Activities Committee to fight communism at home.
- Explain how domestic spy cases intensified fears of communist influence in the U.S. government.
- Analyze the rise and fall of Senator Joseph McCarthy and the methods of McCarthyism.
Connect: Digital Start- Up Activity (Why was the domestic battle also important?)
Flipped Video-Sen. McCarthy
Quick Instruction: Interactive Gallery-Red Scare Culture
- Identify the issue reflected in the gallery and describe its characteristics.
- Which one satirizes that fear?
Interactive Reading Notepad: Students will read “Cold War Tensions Rise at Home” and answer the questions.
Digital Test One: online activity
Summarize: How the fear of communism was reflected in the government
Active Classroom: Group Activity
- Divide class into two groups. One group will take the stand that the fear was an overreaction. One group will take the stand that the fear was legitimate. Students will talk with each other to compare their reasons for their position.
Make generalizations: What adjectives would you use to describe the Red Scare in the U.S. in the 1950s?
Wednesday:
Objective 2
Interactive Reading Notepad: Students read “Domestic Spy Cases Increase Fears” and answer the questions.
Quick Instruction:Analyze images (TM page 555)
Summarize: How the Venona Papers affected our understanding of the Rosenberg Case
Further Instruction: Interpret Venn diagram to note similarities and differences between the espionage cases of Alger Hiss and the Rosenbergs.
Interpret: statement made by Pres. Truman’s Attorney General, J. Howard McGrath
Identify Patterns: How did the Alger Hiss and Rosenberg cases heighten Cold War tensions in the U.S.?
Digital Text Two: online activity
Interactive Reading Notepad: Read “McCarthyism” and answer the questions.
Thursday:
Objective 3
Quick Instruction: Interactive Timeline-Red Scare and the Government (TM page 555)
Identify Central Issues: How would these Cold War tensions help Joseph McCarthy gain fame and power? How did McCarthyism, in turn, intensify Cold War tensions?
Active Classroom: Draw political cartoon with bubble caption to capture the essence of McCarthism in a fictional statement by McCarthy.
Digital Text Three: online activity
Friday:
Interactive Timeline: Red Scare and the Government (Inference Activity)
Interactive Reading Notepad: Go over the remaining questions.
Synthesize: Digital Activity-“Fears of Communism”
Lesson Quiz and Class Discussion Board
Special Project: Students work in groups on this activity.