Tuesday 3/5/13

RAP

If you were interned as an “enemy alien” would you want to fight for your country? Why?

Today:

SWBAT describe the involvement of minorities in WWII by taking notes on a video and readings, along with creating a placard for one minority group during WWII.

Presentations

• CE

• Battles

• Arizona Book • Please begin reading on page 226.

• As you read, take notes and respond to the following statement:–Name one way the military changed Arizona.

• Stop reading at the sentence “Seventeen Phoenicians served as WASPs (Women’s Airforce Service Pilots).” on page 228.

• Continue reading on page 228.

• As you read, take notes and respond to the following question:–How did WWII impact the minorities living in

Arizona?

• Please stop reading on page 230 at “The Wartime Economy”.

• Continue reading the section beginning on page 230 titled “The Wartime Economy.”

• As you read, take notes and respond to the following questions:– Name two ways WWII impacted Arizona’s economy.

Which groups benefitted from the changes?

• Stop reading on page 231 at “Social and Political Challenges.”

• Continue reading the section beginning on page 231 titled “Social and Political Challenges.”

• As you read, please respond to the following question:– How did WWII affect the local communities in

Arizona?

• Stop reading on page 233 at the paragraph that begins “The CGC marked…”

• Continue reading on page 233 at the paragraph that begins “The CGC marked…”

• As you read, please respond to the following question:–Name one political group that developed as a

result of WWII. What impact did that group have on Arizona?

• Stop reading at the end of page 235.

Ira Hayes

• Please open your book to page 245– Read about Ira Hayes and add notes to your

minority units in WWII.

• Please compose a 1 paragraph summary of the important points from the reading. Keep the paragraph in your notes, as it will be checked during the note-check on Friday.

Minority poster• Each group will get one reading on a unit, group of

people, etc. from WWII that they will present to class through a poster on Friday.– Take notes on the reading

• Be able to explain to class:– Who they are– Why they are important– Significance in WWII

– Create a poster to present to class on Friday.• Title• Who• Why important during WWII• Other important or interesting information• Find pictures online or create your own illustration

Minority Units in WWII• Today you will read, take notes on, watch, and create

a poster on one group reading. – As you watch the video on Minority Units please take notes

on the following:• Tuskegee Airmen• 332nd – Red tail Fighter group• Dorie Miller –Pearl Harbor—(Cuba Gooding Jr.)• Alcan Highway • Normandy Invasion –Red Ball Express• 6888th Postal Battalion—women• 92nd Infantry—Italian Campaign• Japanese Americans- 100th Infantry• 442nd Combat Unit• Military Intelligence – Pacific Theater• Navajo Code Talkers• Ira Hayes

Friday 3/8/13

• RAP– What was the Double V campaign?– How would you have felt fighting in WWII if

you were a minority? Explain.

• Today:

• --Navajo Code Talkers activity

Minority groups WWII• 442nd Regiment –Japanese Americans

– Most decorated unit of WWII• Hispanic Americans —most decorated minority group during WWII• 761st Tank Division— black tank division who helped push Patton’s 4th

infantry through Belgium into Germany—first to meet up with Russians (Ukraine)

• Tuskegee Airmen – protected military on the ground…instrumental in many getting through tough areas.

• Double V campaign- Victory in WWII and Victory at home.• Navajo Code Talkers- created a code that was unbroken by the Japanese

during WWII. Code was classified until 1968; they did not receive the congressional medal of honor until 1992—over 50 years after service.

• WAC, WAVES– women who were part of the army and navy during WWII. Worked in administrative fields.

• WASP – service pilots—took targets, equipment to bases. Were not acknowledged as part of the military.

• Please pick one minority group that we have discussed and create a placard honoring them.

• There are notes on the front table to help you.

• I will give extra credit to the best one of each group. (20 minutes)

• Read Ch. 16 and answer questions on the note sheet.