Digital Unit Plan Template Unit Title: World at War: An Examination of WWII Content Area: History/Social Studies

CA Content Standard(s)/Common Core Standard(s):

Name: Zach Bennett Grade Level: 11th

Students analyze the causes and consequences of World War II. 1. Compare the German, Italian, and Japanese drives for empire in the 1930s, including the 1937 Rape of Nanking, other atrocities in China, and the Stalin-Hitler Pact of 1939. 2. Understand the role of appeasement, nonintervention (isolationism), and the domes tic distractions in Europe and the United States prior to the outbreak of World War II. 3. Identify and locate the Allied and Axis powers on a map and discuss the major turning points of the war, the principal theaters of conflict, key strategic decisions, and the resulting war conferences and political resolutions, with emphasis on the importance of geographic factors. 4. Describe the political, diplomatic, and military leaders during the war (e.g., Winston Churchill, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Emperor Hirohito, Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, Joseph Stalin, Douglas MacArthur, Dwight Eisenhower). 5. Analyze the Nazi policy of pursuing racial purity, especially against the European Jews; its transformation into the Final Solution; and the Holocaust that resulted in the murder of six million Jewish civilians. 6. Discuss the human costs of the war, with particular attention to the civilian and military losses in Russia, Germany, Britain, the United States, China, and Japan.
Big Ideas:

- World War I created conditions that led to World War II. Germans felt like victims of Treaty while Allies reluctant to hit (appeasement) after WWI. - The difference between Communism and Fascism and how both led to Totalitarianism - The Holocaust is based on long seated prejudices against the Jewish people, and the Nazis racial purity projects. - The Impact of Pearl Harbor on the war, US involvement and reluctance to get involved after WWI and Great Depression. Isolationism popular. - Hitler and Stalin, non-aggression pact, and importance of Soviet Union to the allies and defeating the Nazis. - War of Attrition in the Pacific, Japans refusal to surrender and the dropping of the atomic bombs.

Unit Goals and Objectives:

- Understand the causes of World War II, identify the Allied and Axis powers. - Understand the Nazis idea of racial purity, and identify the causes of The Holocaust. - Describe the war in the Pacific and how this led to the dropping of the Atomic Bomb on Japanese cities
Unit Summary:

In this unit students will examine World War II, the causes, how it was fought and who fought it and the aftermath of the war. Students will demonstrate a working knowledge of the causes of the War and its players, the ideas behind the holocaust, the War in the Pacific and the dropping of the Atomic Bomb. Students will watch archival footage of events, view propaganda and media from the era, and debate the merits and morality of main events of the war. Students will accomplish and complete 2 in class essays and a graded debate where each student must present their position and defend it.
Assessment Plan: Entry-Level: Students fill out a pre-lesson questionnaire, followed by a pre-lesson discussion on their knowledge. This is a non-graded assignment, and is used to assess students knowledge on the topic coming into the lesson. Lesson 1 Student Learning Objective: Understand who were victims of genocide, with a focus on victims humanity and students ability to relate to victims. Lesson 2 Student Learning Objective: Understand the causes and events of the Holocaust. Lesson 3 Student Learning Objective: Identify and demonstrate a working knowledge of the causes of World Acceptable Evidence: Students demonstrate the ability to link cause and effects leading up to the Second World War. Instructional Strategies: Communication Collection Collaboration Presentation Organization
Lesson Activities: In pairs, students explore the World War II history website, and then create a flowchart detailing the causes and events which led to World War II. Students must show a link between events, in a cause and effect format, which details the circumstances which led to the war.

Formative: Students answer Questions of the Day, which assess their knowledge and feelings on the topic.

Summative: Students create a flow chart on the causes of WWI, showing an events cause and effect, all leading up to the war. Assessment is based on students ability to connect ideas and events in a chronological fashion, demonstrating their knowledge on the subject.

Acceptable Evidence: Student demonstrates working knowledge of the Holocaust by answering Questions of the Day.

Instructional Strategies: Communication Collection Collaboration Presentation Organization Interaction

Lesson Activities: Lesson involves a Teacher guided Lecture on the Holocaust, through the use of a slide rocket presentation, and answering Questions of the Day, which are given during the presentation. Questions of the Day involve provide students an opportunity to relate to victims and express their feelings on the subject. Lesson is meant to demonstrate compassion for victims and understand how they became victims.

Acceptable Evidence: Student demonstrates a working knowledge of the Holocausts causes and events through a worksheet assignment.

Instructional Strategies: Communication Collection Collaboration Presentation Organization Interaction

Lesson Activities: Students explore the Holocaust Memorial Museum website, and answer a questionnaire using the information gained from the website. Student questionnaire focus on historical events of the Holocaust.

War II in Europe Unit Resources:

Interaction

Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler (excerpts) The Diary of Anne Frank (excerpts) With the Old Breed by E.B. Sledge (excerpts)

Useful Websites: Useful Websites:

http://www.calvin.edu/academic/cas/gpa/ww2era.htm#Posters - Nazi Propaganda Media http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005274 - Nazi Propaganda Media II http://www.neok12.com/php/watch.php?v=zX5a496c1840514f7a6f547b&t=World-War-II - Policy of Appeasement Video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwSGhyI7mVg - Archival Newsreel of Liberation of Death Camps http://www.mapsofworld.com/world-maps/world-war-ii-map.html - Maps of World War II http://www.neok12.com/php/watch.php?v=zX76016c79547a536f544559&t=World-War-II - World War II Europe Map video http://www.ushmm.org - Holocaust Memorial Museum http://www.ww2history.com - World War II History site