WWII+Second+Lesson+Plan

-1.) After the anticipatory set, I will ask the students to recap what they remember about Japan, who was Commodore Matthew Perry, why Japan was trying to take over China, how did the United States and other countries respond to that?

-2.) I will ask the students what you think it was like to be there at that time. I would then play real footage of the attack, then clips from the movie Pearl Harbor. I believe the clips from the movie could the students connect more to the students because it is in color and more contemporary.

I will go into detail of the day and play a video of people who were there that day of the attack on Pearl Harbor. The students will get a new KWL chart and will fill that out. I will show the students the number of losses at Pearl Harbor, both Americans and Japanese.

-3.) Play President Roosevelt’s Speech made after Pearl Harbor on YouTube. The students will be given a hardcopy of the speech to follow along. I will mention how many people believe President Roosevelt knew of the planned Japanese attack on Pearl and did nothing about it. I will tell the students to keep that in mind.

-4.) Students will read exerts of eyewitness and survivor accounts of the attack on Pearl Harbor.

-5.) Students will be split up into four groups with an activity:  · __Group__ 1- What might have happened if the Japanese had followed up their attack on Pearl Harbor with a land invasion of the Hawaiian Islands?  · __Group 2__ -Some people believe President Franklin D. Roosevelt knew of the planned Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, but he did nothing to prevent. They claim that the president wanted to bring America in to the war to assist Great Britain, and that increased war production would help lift the American economy. Would a president have sacrificed several thousand lives to achieve this?  · __Group 3-__ How do the tragic events on December 7, 1941 and September 11, 2001 similar and differ from each other?  · __Group 4-__ Students will look at the eyewitness accounts and act as a reporter who is about to interview eyewitnesses of Pearl Harbor. Students will create their own questions that were not asked in the exerts.