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 #6 Documents and directions:
- Who Owns History document set
- Podcast on "The Great Textbook War" from WV Public Radio
- Loewen 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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Evicted extension: nyti.ms/2GDGfwd
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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.