Lesson 3D – US enters Vietnam
Essential Question
Why did the US send soldiers into
Vietnam?
Learning Outcomes - Students will:
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Review – Why enter Vietnam
Learn about the Great Society
Begin writing your essay
Success Criteria
 I can write a mini-essay about the
Americanization of the Vietnam War
Review
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Why do you think LBJ
decided to Americanize
the war in Vietnam?
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Write down your reasons
This will act as your outline
Vocab
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Great Society
What was the Great Society?
Great Society
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“War on Poverty” to eliminate
the troubles of the poor
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Civil Rights Act - banned
discrimination based on race and
gender in employment and
ending segregation in all public
facilities.
Medicare – gov’t will help pay for
medical drugs
End discrimination quotas in
immigration
Volunteering in lower privilege
areas
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Mini-Essay Topic
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Why did the US enter Vietnam?
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What if LBJ didn’t decide to
enter Vietnam?
Choose 1 reason
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Spread of Communism
Relations with the US and its
allies
Great Society
If LBJ decided not to enter
Vietnam, explain the shortterm (main body paragraph 1)
and long-term (MB Paragraph
2) impact
Thesis
2 main body paragraphs
 Referencing
Don’t make the same mistakes
 Use facts to support your
claims
 Ex. Johnson’s Great Society
focused on the poor.
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What you need?
 Intro and Concluding
Paragraph
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Do you have a strong fact?
For example, the Civil Rights Act
focused on ending discrimination in
employment for African-Americans.
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Mini-Essay Topic
Scoring
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7 – All requirements + clearly
connects STRONG facts to
argument with vocab +
persuasive (STRONG balanced
argument with facts)
6 – All requirements +
clearly connects STRONG
facts to argument with
vocab + persuasive
(balanced argument)
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Requirements
 Intro and Concluding
Paragraph
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Thesis
2 main body paragraphs
Total – 4 paragraphs
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5~9 sentences = 1 paragraph
Referencing
5 – All requirements + uses facts to Don’t make the same mistakes
support argument + attempts to
 Use facts to support your
persuade
claims
4 – All requirements + narrative
3 – All written requirements but  Ex. Johnson’s Great Society
referenced incorrectly
focused on the poor.
1~2 – Missing requirements
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Thesis?
Topic and Concluding Sentences?
5~9 sentences paragraph?
Short-term and Long-term?
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Do you have a strong fact?
For example, the Civil Rights Act
focused on ending discrimination in
employment for African-Americans.
Let’s Look at our book
What type of
punctuation is
used?
Fiehn, Terry, et al., The USA Between the Wars 1919-1941:
in Depth. London: Hodder Education, 2013. Print.
Who is the Author/s?
2. What is the Title?
Where
3.did IWhere was it published?
leave(City)
a
space?
4. Who is the publishing
company?
5. When was it published?
6. Print or Website?
AStudy
1.
What is in
different
font?
Let’s Look at our book
Demarco, Neil, Vietnam 1939-75 2nd Edition. London:
Hodder Education, 2013. Print.
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
Who is the Author/s?
What is the Title?
Where was it published?
(City)
Who is the publishing
company?
When was it published?
Print or Website?
Where
did I
leave a
space?
Let’s
What type of
What is in
punctuation is
different
Look at the Internet
used?
font?
Ushistory.org, Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society,
www.ushistory.org/. 2015. Web. 3 April 2015.
Website
1. Who is the Author/s?
2. What is the Title?
3. Where was it published? (City)
4. Who is the publishing company?
5. When was it published?
6. Print or Website?
7. When did you see it?
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Your turn. Choose a
history website
(computer, phone)
and source it.
Help – Purdue Owl
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Link - MLA
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Bibliography - Books
Lastname, Firstname. Title of Book. City of Publication:
Publisher,Year of Publication. Medium of
1 author
Publication.
Example
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Gleick, James. Chaos: Making a New Science. New York: Penguin, 1987.
2 authors
Print.
Gillespie, Paula, and Neal Lerner. The Allyn and Bacon Guide to Peer
3 or
Tutoring. Boston: Allyn, 2000. Print.
more
Wysocki, Anne Frances, et al. Writing New Media:Theory and
no
Applications for Expanding the Teaching of Composition.
Logan:
author
Utah State UP, 2004. Print.
Encyclopedia of Indiana. New York: Somerset, 1993. Print.
Foucault, Michel. Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the
Age of Reason. Trans. Richard Howard. New York:VintageTranslation
Random House, 1988. Print.
Bibliography - Websites
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Editor, author, or compiler name (if available). Name of Site.
Version number. Name of institution/organization affiliated with
the site (sponsor or publisher), date of resource creation (if
available). Medium of publication. Date of access.
Picture
Example
form Web
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Goya, Francisco. The Family of Charles IV. 1800. Museo Nacional del Prado,
Madrid. Museo National del Prado. Web. 22 May 2006.
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Wheelis, Mark. "Investigating Disease Outbreaks Under a Protocol to the Biological
andToxin Weapons Convention." Emerging Infectious Diseases 6.6 (2000): 595- 600.
Web. 8 Feb. 2009
Author’s Name or Poster’s Username. “Title of Image or Video.”
Media Type Text. Name of Website. Name of Website’s Publisher,
date of posting. Medium. date retrieved.
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Shimabukuro, Jake. "Ukulele Weeps by Jake Shimabukuro." Online video clip.
YouTube. YouTube, 22 Apr. 2006. Web. 9 Sept. 2010
Journal
Bibliography - Videos
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Film
The Usual Suspects. Dir. Bryan Singer. Perf. Kevin Spacey,
Gabriel Byrne, Chazz Palminteri, Stephen Baldwin, and
Benecio del Toro. Polygram, 1995. Film.
Interviews
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Gaitskill, Mary. Interview with Charles Bock. Mississippi
Review 27.3 (1999): 129-50. Print.
Amis, Kingsley. “Mimic and Moralist.” Interviews with
Britain’s Angry Young Men. By Dale Salwak. San
Bernardino: Borgo, 1984. Print.