Jason's+Lesson+Plan

Lesson Plan: Blogging WWII Standard: __[|USH 5.3]__ Objective: Students will identify key leaders and events of World War II >> Leaders: Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry Truman, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, Russia's Joseph Stalin, Germany's Adolf Hitler, Italy's Benito Mussolini, Japan's Tojo Hideki, and Generals Douglas MacArthur and Dwight Eisenhower; Events: Battle of Midway, Stalingrad, D-Day (Invasion of Normandy), Yalta Conference, Potsdam Conference, and dropping of Atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki Activity: Students will add a post to the class blog as a personal journal entry regarding their fictionalized experience along side (1) a historical figure outlined above and (2) at a key event of WWII. These two blog posts will include a link to a reliable source of information regarding the figure or event, and a multimedia resource (picture, video, mp3). Students will then comment on at least one other student post. The goal is to have students edit each other's posts by requiring they comment on each other's posts and helping each other. Assessment: __[|Rubric]__ created at Rubistar. The rubric is not complicated and is intended to help students focus on the basics as they do their first blog activity.  You can see a Google Docs version of this [|here.]
 * Identify and describe key leaders and events during World War II. (Core Standard)