Do Now 9/24/14
• Please take out binder p. 14 = Three threes in
a row.
• You can also get out the index card work from
yesterday.
Agenda 9/24/14
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Do Now & Agenda
Learning Targets
Images Vietnam War
Three Threes in a Row – Finish up
Quick Write 5 – Interactive Cards –strong
evidence evaluation, class discussion– to
hand in for classwork credit
Learning Targets
1. Determine the central idea of a text and
analyze its development over the course of
the text, including its relationship to
supporting ideas.
2. I can participate in discussions about the text
with a partner, small group, and the whole
class.
3. I can make inferences to deepen my
understanding of Inside Out & Back Again.
Three Threes in a Row
1. In the first paragraph 2. The text says that President Diem managed to
of this section, what
does it mean that the
Americans cringed at
the thought of a
Communist Vietnam?
“alienate everyone.” Based on context clues in this
sentence and the surrounding text, what do you
think alienate means? What specifically did
President Diem do to alienate the people in the
South?
4. Review: What is a
5. The text says that the Viet Cong “operated
peace accord?
stealthily under cover of the jungle.” In this context,
the word operated means “acted” or “functioned.”
Who were the Viet Cong? How did they fight? Using
context clues, what might it mean that the Viet
Cong were an elusive enemy?
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Review: Why did the
Americans back Ngo
Dinh Diem in South
Vietnam?
Explain this sentence in the final paragraph:
“Two years later, on April 30, 1975, columns of
North Vietnamese soldiers entered Saigon, meeting
little resistance from the demoralized South
Vietnamese army.” What happened?
Look at the photograph with a car in the background. What is this photograph
showing? Why might the author have chosen to include this photograph?
How does it help us understand important ideas in this text?
In this June 11, 1963 file photo, Quang Duc, a Buddhist monk, burns himself to death
on a Saigon street to protest alleged persecution of Buddhists by the South
Vietnamese government. The war ended on April 30, 1975, with the fall of Saigon,
now known as Ho Chi Minh City, to communist troops from the north.
Look at the photograph with a flag with the star and the caption next to it. What is this
photograph showing? Why might the author have chosen to include this photograph?
How does it help us understand important ideas in this text?
Look at the photograph with the helicopter and the caption next to it. What is this
photograph showing? Why might the author have chosen to include this photograph?
How does it help us understand important ideas in this text?
Images…
In this March 1965 file photo, hovering U.S. Army helicopters pour machine gun fire
into a tree line to cover the advance of South Vietnamese ground troops in an attack
on a Viet Cong camp 18 miles north of Tay Ninh, northwest of Saigon near the
Cambodian border, in Vietnam.
In this April 29, 1975 file photo, a South Vietnamese mother and her three children are shown on the deck of
an amphibious command ship being plucked out of Saigon by U.S. Marine helicopters in Vietnam. AP / file
Read more here: http://blogs.sacbee.com/photos/2010/04/looking-back-at-the-vietnamwa.html#storylink=cpy
This May 1970 file photo shows demonstrators showing their sign of protest as ROTC cadets
parade at Ohio State University during a ceremony in Columbus, Ohio during the Vietnam War.
Denied a graduation ceremony because of student unrest in 1970, graduates of several
universities are finally getting a commencement in special ceremonies this spring. AP / file
In this 1966 file photo, Pfc. Lacey Skinner of Birmingham, Ala., crawls through the mud
of a rice paddy avoiding heavy Viet Cong fire near An Thi in South Vietnam, as troops
of the U.S. 1st Cavalry Division fight a fierce 24-hour battle along the central coast.
In this June 15, 1967 file photo, American infantrymen crowd into a mud-filled bomb
crater and look up at tall jungle trees seeking out Viet Cong snipers firing at them
during a battle in Phuoc Vinh, north-Northeast of Saigon in Vietnam's War Zone D.
In this Sept. 25, 1965 file photo, paratroopers of the U.S. 2nd Battalion, 173rd
Airborne Brigade hold their automatic weapons above water as they cross a river in
the rain during a search for Viet Cong positions in the jungle area of Ben Cat, South
Vietnam. The war ended on April 30, 1975, with the fall of Saigon, now known as Ho
Chi Minh City, to communist troops from the north.
Photo citation:
http://blogs.sacbee.com/photos/2010/04/looking-back-at-thevietnam-wa.html