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November 11, 2012

Lesson Plan / Art & Culture
African-American Soldiers After World War I: Had Race Relations Changed?
In this lesson, students view archival photographs, combine their efforts to comb through a database of more than 2,000 archival newspaper accounts about race relations in the United States, and read newspaper articles written from different points of view about post-war riots in Chicago.
Lesson Plan / History & Social Studies
African-American Soldiers in World War I: The 92nd and 93rd Divisions
Late in 1917, the War Department created two all-black infantry divisions. The 93rd Infantry Division received unanimous praise for its performance in combat, fighting as part of France’s 4th Army. In this lesson, students combine their research in a variety of sources, including firsthand accounts, to develop a hypothesis evaluating contradictory statements about the performance of the 92nd Infantry Division in World War I.
Lesson Plan / Art & Culture
Homer's Civil War Veteran: Battlefield to Wheat Field
Students will compare and contrast Winslow Homer's painting The Veteran in a New Field with Timothy O'Sullivan's photograph A Harvest of Death, Gettysburg, 1863. Students will imagine what a returned Civil War veteran might think and remember as he tends his wheat fields back home. Students will read a Civil War soldier's diary excerpt prior to writing and acting out a monologue.

November 11, 1922

Student Resource / History & Social Studies
Launchpad: “Harrison Bergeron,” by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
This Launchpad, adapted from http://www.WhatSoProudlyWeHail.org, provides background materials and discussion questions to enhance your reading and understanding of Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.’s short story “Harrison Bergeron.”

November 11, 1885

Lesson Plan / History & Social Studies
Lesson 2: Turning the Tide in Europe, 1942–1944
Although it was the Japanese who attacked Pearl Harbor in 1941, U.S. military planners decided that Germany, not Japan, was to be the primary target of operations. This lesson plan will focus on the overall strategies pursued by the Americans and their British allies in the initial months of World War II in Europe.