Period 9: 1980-Present - Technology, Terror and Post-Cold War Challenges
Content Block Activity Files
Click on the links below to download and complete activities:
- Reaganomics Activities:
- Iran-Contra Documents
- Debates over the First Gulf War: George Bush Arthur Schlesinger
- Clinton Impeachment Background Link 1 Link 2
- Debates over the War on Terror: George W. Bush Joyce Neu
- Congressional Debates over Authorizing the War in Iraq Documents
- Uses of September 11 Documents
- Scored Discussion #5 Documents and directions:
- Who Owns History document set
- Podcast on "The Great Textbook War" from WV Public Radio
- Loewen reading (Please note, this PDF was apparently generated with scanning software which seems to have mis-read some of the words and replicated them incorrectly. Therefore you will find some misspellings and word substitutions that were not in the original work. Please take this into account while you are reading.)
- Directions: For this discussion, you should take time to explore each of the sources in the three items above and reflect on your own educational experiences in preparation. The pre-write this time should only include the following: 1) A personal reaction to each of the three items above, 2) 2-3 questions you would ask of the authors or the people involved in each of the three items above, and 3) 4-5 questions you can bring to class for the discussion.
- Contextualization listening: Backstory Radio
Skills Activity Files
| kyoto_protocol_student_materials.pdf |
| nafta_student_materials.pdf |
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Document Recitation Block Files
| reagan_cartoons.pdf |
Targeted Standards
POL-1.0 Explain how and why political ideas, beliefs, institutions, party systems, and alignments have developed and changed.
CUL-1.0 Explain how religious groups and ideas have affected American society and political life.
WOR-1.0 Explain how cultural interaction, cooperation, competition, and conflict between empires, nations, and peoples have influenced political, economic, and social developments in North America.
CUL-1.0 Explain how religious groups and ideas have affected American society and political life.
WOR-1.0 Explain how cultural interaction, cooperation, competition, and conflict between empires, nations, and peoples have influenced political, economic, and social developments in North America.