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Module 1: Escalating Involvement in the Vietnam War

Activity:	Jigsaw teaching method
Activity:	Probing analogies about the Vietnam War
Team learning module 1:	Escalating involvement in the Vietnam War
Team activity:	Escalating involvement in the Vietnam War

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Module 2: Conflict on the Home Front

Activity:	What songs about the Vietnam War say about support for the war
Activity:	Pro-war and anti-war arguments
Activity:	Historic precedent for civil disobedience
Activity:	Interviewing eyewitnesses to history
Activity:	The historical head, images from the home front
Activity:	Learning log or guided classroom discussion module summary
Activity:	Role of the media in the Vietnam War
Team learning module 2:	Conflict on the home front
Team activity:	Conflict on the home front
Team activity:	Documentary about pro- and anti-war demonstrations
Team activity:	Using primary sources to learn about pro- and anti-war positions
Team activity:	Radio documentary about the war at home

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Module 3: Those Who Served

Activity:	Choosing what to do, learning log assignment
Activity:	Living history, choosing to serve or not to serve
Activity:	Demographics of the draft
Activity:	Letters home
Activity:	Historical head
Activity:	Learning log question
Activity:	The lessons of My Lai
Activity:	The POW experience
Activity:	Poems of the Vietnam War
Team learning module 3:	Those who served
Team activity:	Hollywood goes to war

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Module 4: The Vietnamese and Vietnam

Activity:	Key players in North and South Vietnam
Activity:	Contrasting the official North Vietnamese view with the official U.S. view
Activity:	The legacy of American attitudes toward Asians in previous wars
Activity:	Tthe culture of Vietnam
Activity:	Poem for a child from Hanoi
Activity:	Understanding our allies in South Vietnam
Activity:	The VC and the NVA
Activity:	North Vietnamese POWs
Activity:	The impact of the war on Vietnamese civilians
Activity:	Vietnamese culture and the war
Team learning module 4:	The Vietnamese and Vietnam
Team activity:	The Vietnamese and Vietnam

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Module 5: The Wall as Healer

Activity:	Comparing the veterans' welcome home in World War II to the Vietnam veterans' homecoming
Activity:	The effect of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial
Activity:	Maya Ying Lin and the Vietnam Veterans Memorial
Activity:	Poetry about The Wall
Activity:	Maya Ying Lin
Team learning module 5:	The Wall as healer
Team activity:	Effect of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Module 6: The Legacy of the Vietnam War

Activity:	The experience of the Vietnamese refugee
Activity:	Comparing refugee experiences
Activity:	Probing the analogy of fighting limited wars
Activity:	The Vietnam Syndrome
Activity:	The economic effect of the war on Vietnam and Southeast Asia
Activity:	An American veteran returns to Vietnam
Activity:	Regional cooperation in Southeast Asia
Activity:	The legacy of PTSD
Activity:	The legacy of MIAs
Activity:	The war's deadly legacies
Team learning module 6:	The legacy of the Vietnam War
Team activity:	The Vietnamese boat people
Team activity:	Living history interview
Team activity:	Comparing immigrant experiences
Team activity:	The impact of Agent Orange
Team activity:	A virtual visit to Vietnam
Team activity:	Legacy of peace and courage
Team activity:	Keeping the peace at your school by starting a peer mediation program

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