Digital Unit Plan Template

Unit Title: Yay or Nay, US heading to another World War Name: Mckenzie Jackson
Content Area: Social Studies and Creative Writing Grade Level: 11th grade
CA Content Standard(s)/Common Core Standard(s):
11.7 Students analyze America's participation in World War II.

1. Examine the origins of American involvement in the war, with an emphasis on the events that precipitated the attack on Pearl Harbor.
Big Ideas/Unit Goals:
Essential question: Just because we can, should we?
Unit Question: Was America joining World War 2 the right decision? Was the attack on Pearl Harbor enough justification for the United States to declare war?
Content Question: What were the reasons the United States decided to enter World War Two?

Unit Summary:

Students will go back in time from 1939-1941 when America was split between staying in isolation and participating in World War 2. During this section students will
research about America’s decision to enter World War Two leading up to Pearl Harbor. Students will be provided several articles and teacher lecture to come to the
conclusion of if they are anti-war or pro-war during this time. Students will write a summary of why they believe what they do in their journals using exampled from the
provided material. Students will come back to class knowing if they are pro-war or anti-war. They will split into two groups and all given poster paper to create protest
signs. By following the protest sign criteria page students will use their creative skills to come up with unique signs that show why they picked the side they are on.
Students will also be given the class period to create a group debate to try and convince the other group they are right. The Final day kids will have the first half of the
class to finish getting debate presentations finished by following the debate presentations guidelines provided to them. The second part of class will be used to present
presentations with an Q&A section at the end of each presentation.

Assessment Plan:
Entry-Level: Formative: Summative:
KWL Chart World War Two Overview Lecture My World War Two Experience Speech
What is World War Two Survey Guided Notes for Lecture Summary of World War Two Essay
Protesting World War Two iPad Lesson
Quiz

Lesson 1 (Teacher Lecture)

Student Learning Objective: Acceptable Evidence Lesson Activities:
Students will learn a more (Assessments):
in depth story of World Notes taken during lecture
War II through lectures and Proof of active reading on Students will listen, take notes, and patriciate in class lecture and questions. Throughout the lecture they
discussion question. provided articles. will fill out guided notes that will help them write out how they feel about every event and be a reference
Student Journaling on they can refer back to for the rest of the unit.
thoughts about entering
the war
Lesson 2 (Webercise/ iPad Lesson)
Student Learning Objective: Acceptable Evidence: Lesson Activities:
Students will split into two Gives reason for position
groups depending and if Use entire page to create Students will split into two groups, anti-war and pro-war, to create a protest sign. By following the
they think America should poster protest sign criteria page students will use their creative skills to come up with unique sign that shows
or should not enter the war Has creative and why they picked the side they are on. Students will also be given the class period to create a group
and create pro-war and educational saying presentation with the goal of trying to convince the other group they are right.
anti-war posters along with Has a picture relating to
a presentation. World War two
Lesson 3 (Graphic Organizer)
Student Learning Objective: Acceptable Evidence: Lesson Activities:
Students will complete the Follow group debate
KWL chart before further in guideline page Students will do half of the assignment in class and the last portion at home. This chart is a transition
depth lectures to spark Each person in the group from the overview into World War II into the more in depth lectures that are to come in class. This chart’s
interest in the topic for says something goal is to spark interest in students about World War II and prove that they have read the required
students. Provides evidence from chapters.
lecture and articles
Unit Resources:
Olson, Lynne. Those Angry Days: Roosevelt, Lindbergh, and America's Fight over World War II, 1939-1941. 1st ed. New York: Random House, 2013.
Art, Robert J. "The United States, The Balance of Power, and World War II: Was Spykman Right?" Security Studies 14, no. 3 (2005): 365-406.

Useful Websites:
https://www.gilderlehrman.org/history-now/great-depression-and-world-war-ii-1929-1945
https://www.theworldwar.org/explore/centennial-commemoration/us-enters-war/unrestricted-u-boat-warfare
https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/153296
http://www.debate.org/opinions/should-the-united-states-have-entered-world-war-ii
https://visitpearlharbor.org/didnt-american-initially-join-war/
http://www.worldwar2history.info/in/USA.html