It is a shorter week this week! Next week also. This week we have school Monday-Thursday. We are off Friday and Monday for Memorial Day and Eid. I hope you all have a fantastic Eid! Eid Mubarak!
We will meet this week at our usual times on iLearn. I hope to see you all there!
Announcements: Food distribution at the schools will be Monday and Wednesday this week. Read all about the changes here. Note the later times this week due to Ramadan.
If you have items in your hallway or gym locker that you want to pick up, click on this link and fill out the form: https://forms.gle/V8YJweLi19jPGVxk7.
Complete it by this Friday, May 22!
The scheduled “pick-up” of the items is on June 1st from 10 am-12 pm. *If the form is not filled out, the lock will be taken off (in the gym lockers) and the items in the locker will be discarded. Thank you!
Chapter 22: The Vietnam Years
Directions: Read each of the four articles below about topics from Chapters 22. Choose one article and answer the questions on the Weekly Reflection Activity template below. Please share your Google Doc with connore@dearbornschools.org by 11:59pm on Sunday, May 24th, 2020. You may share it earlier if you complete it sooner. We will discuss these articles during our online class meetings on Google Meet. Please try to read them before our meeting.
Weekly Reflection Activity Template (Save on your Google Drive!)
Review the Vietnam War Timeline by History.com Editors
https://www.history.com/topics/vietnam-war/vietnam-war-timeline
Article 1: ‘Who is the Enemy Here?’ The Vietnam War Picures That Moved Them Most from Time Magazine
https://time.com/vietnam-photos/
Article 2: Kent State Shooting by History.com Editors
https://www.history.com/topics/vietnam-war/kent-state-shooting
Article 3: Vietnam War: Vietnam War: Gulf of Tonkin Incident-How It Helped Lead to Greater American Involvement in Vietnam by Kennedy Hickman
https://www.thoughtco.com/vietnam-war-gulf-of-tonkin-incident-2361345
Article 4: How Nixon’s Invasion of Cambodia Triggered a Check on Presidential Power by Jessica Pearce Rotondi
https://www.history.com/news/nixon-war-powers-act-vietnam-war-cambodia
Additional articles you may be interested in:
A Protestor Remembers the Kent State Shootings voice recording from NPR
Kent State and the War That Never Ended
Ghosts of the Vietnam War video from BBC News
Vietnam Stories from people who were there
Chapter 22: The Vietnam Years Vocabulary (Part II)
- silent majority: an unspecified large group of people in a country or group who do not express their opinions publicly. The term was popularized by United States President Richard Nixon in a November 3, 1969.
- Tet Offensive: a series of attacks staged by North Vietnamese forces beginning in the early hours of January 31, 1968. They consisted of simultaneous attacks by some 85,000 troops under the direction of the North Vietnamese government.
- Tonkin Gulf Resolution: a resolution authorized President Lyndon Johnson to “take all necessary measures to repel any armed attack against the forces of the United States and to prevent further aggression” by the communist government of North Vietnam.
- Vietnamization: one of President Nixon’s policies aimed at ending America’s involvement in the Vietnam War training and equipping South Vietnam’s forces against North Vietnam.
- War Powers Act: a federal law intended to check the president’s power to commit the United States to an armed conflict without the consent of the U.S. Congress.