Origins of the Vietnam War

Agenda 4/18-22:

1. Students listened to the song Machine Gun by Jimi Hendrix while viewing a series of photos from the Vietnam War. After, they brainstormed key terms that they related to prior knowledge of the Vietnam War.
2. Students read and interpreted The Man I Killed, by Tim O'Brien.
3. Students completed maps of Southeast Asia and began to answer reading questions from the Keylor text.
4. Students watch a clip from the film Vietnam: Televised War - Episode 1 - The Roots of War. I stopped the clip at Ho Chi Minh's Declaration of Vietnamese Independece
5. Students participated in a simulation debating Vietnamese Independence in 1945, between French and Viet Minh representatives.

HOMEWORK:
Vietnam Maps and Keylor Questions