Group Lesson Plan/Activitys

Essential Question: How do the actions of a sovereign state affect its own and others' economy?

Standards: 

7.2.4 Cold War Conflicts – Analyze the causes and consequences of major Cold War conflicts, including the global reconfigurations and restructuring of political and economic relationships in the post-World War II era. 

7.2 World War I, Interwar Period, World War II, Cold War Conflicts, Revolution, Decolonization, Democratization, and Case Studies of Genocide.

Analyze the causes and challenges of continuing and new conflicts by describing:

• The Iron Curtain and Berlin Wall.

• The differences in the civic and political values of the United States and those of the USSR and other countries apart of the Eastern Bloc.

• U.S. vs USSR space race. 

• The advancements made in warfare technology during the Cold War.

7.2.2 Interwar Period – Analyze the transformations that shaped world societies after World War I and World War II, including the economic depression, and the spread of fascism, communism, and nationalism in different world regions. 

8.1 Cold War and the United States 

CG4 Conflict, Cooperation, and Security 

Analyze the causes and challenges of continuing and new conflicts by describing:

• Tensions resulting from ethnic, territorial, religious, and/or political differences. 

• Causes of and responses to the building of the Berlin Wall and Germany.

• Local and global attempts at peacekeeping, security, democratization, and the administration of international justice and human rights. 

• The types of warfare used in these conflicts, including terrorism, private militias, and new technologies. 

-CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RH.9-10.3-Analyze in detail a series of events described in a text; determine whether earlier events caused later ones or simply preceded them.

-CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RH.9-10.4-Compare the point of view of two or more authors for how they treat the same or similar topics, including which details they include and emphasize in their respective accounts.

-CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.WHST.9-10.6-Use technology, including the Internet, to produce, publish, and update individual or shared writing products, taking advantage of technology's capacity to link to other information and to display information flexibly and dynamically.

I Can: Sympathize with the innocent citizens who were separated from their families by the Berlin Wall.

I Can: Identify how separating entire cities from each other can impact a country and society.

I Can: Realize the mistakes of the past by understanding the difficult parts of history and preventing that negativity from occurring again in the future.

Directions for Students: Provide students with background knowledge on each subtopic by presenting some notes on this slideshow.

Hook: How does this image relate to how the Cold War was fought?

Hook/Modeling: Teachers will model the process of examining images and other multimodal sources pertaining to the Cold War.

Independent Practice: In separate groups, students will examine a multimodal source that tells the story of the Iron Curtain/Cold War and its conflicts. 

-Teachers will split students into six groups by numbering them off.

-Together, Students will discuss how the actions of a dictator affected people around the world.

-After some time, teachers will check for understanding in students by asking individuals questions about the multimodal source that they observed.

-To conclude the lesson plan, students will be assigned to draw a picture of what the Berlin Wall looked like and how it caused so much separation.