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The Texas Capitol Vietnam Veterans Monument J The Texas Capitol Vietnam Veterans Monument J Texas and the Vietnam War A Living History _______________ Curriculum for Secondary Students DEAR TEACHER, When we were not much older than your students, our nation called us to military service in a war in Vietnam. Some of us enlisted. Some of us were drafted. Many of us took our first airplane ride to Southeast Asia, where we were dropped into a difficult and bloody war. More than 58,000 of us – 3,417 from Texas – would never come back. Many more returned with wounds, seen and unseen. Our war was controversial and divisive, and while we were fighting for each other and our lives, our country was turning against both the war and those of us who had been sent to fight it. In the shadow of our war’s controversy and the social and political turmoil of the United States in the 1960s and 70’s, there was no homecoming celebration for our generation of war veterans. It would be forty years before the hundreds of thousands of Texans who served in Vietnam would finally be recognized for their service. The young kids who’d slugged through the jungles of Vietnam were gray-haired grandfathers when the Texas Capitol Vietnam Veterans Monument was dedicated in their honor on March 29, 2014. Some 5,000 of us gathered on that sunny morning, exactly 42 years after the last U.S. combat troops left Vietnam, for that long overdue “Welcome Home.” As the Vietnam veterans who served on the monument committee, we know that the men and women we served with in Vietnam served with every bit as much skill and courage as American troops have demonstrated in any war, and we are proud of the tribute the Texas Capitol Vietnam Veterans Monument brings to our statehouse grounds. But we also want our monument to be a “Living Monument” that furthers the tribute to Texas Vietnam veterans by bringing their stories to life online. With the help of teachers like you, we have created this curriculum so that your students can learn about the Vietnam War through the personal stories of Texans who lived it, and, most exciting of all, so that they can be active participants in the preservation of its history. We hope your students will become historians who help build our online “Living Monument,” where the stories of Texans affected by the Vietnam War can be told, studied, and, most of all, never forgotten. THANK YOU FOR HELPING US ACCOMPLISH THIS. Robert Floyd, Chairman Texas Capitol Vietnam Veterans Monument Committee This curriculum is made possible through the generosity of the Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation. TEXAS CAPITOL VIETNAM VETERANS MONUMENT COMMITTEE Lady Bird Johnson, First Lady, Honorary Chair (1912-2007) Senator Juan “Chuy” Hinojosa, Texas Legislative Co-Chairman, USMC Vietnam Representative Wayne Smith, Texas Legislative Co-Chairman, USA Vietnam The Texas Capitol EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Vietnam Veterans Robert Floyd, Chairman, USA Vietnam John Miterko, Treasurer, USA Vietnam Monument Terry Burkett (1946-2015), USN Vietnam Don Dorsey, USMC Vietnam Alan Erwin, USN Vietnam Kinnan Golemon, USMC Vietnam The Texas Capitol Vietnam Veterans Richard McBride, USA Vietnam Monument is located on the northeast Patrick Nugent, USAF Vietnam grounds of the Texas State Capitol to honor Kerry Orr, USA Vietnam Phil Price, USA Vietnam Texans who served in the U.S. Armed Forces Michael Wright, USA Vietnam during the Vietnam War. TEXAS CAPITOL VIETNAM VETERANS MONUMENT VIRTUAL TOUR The monument was approved by the 79th http://tour.tcvvm.org Texas Legislature in 2005 and dedicated TEXAS CAPITOL VIETNAM VETERANS March 29, 2014. MONUMENT WEBSITE http://tcvvm.org TEXAS CAPITOL VIETNAM VETERANS MONUMENT COMMUNITY https://www.facebook.com/Texas-Capitol- Vietnam-Monument-108759622478715/ http://tour.tcvvm.org Scan to take an online tour of the Texas Capitol Vietnam Veterans Monument. DEAR TEACHER, From Like you, we are always looking for opportunities to bring history and English to life for our students, and to make “real world” connections in the Teachers the classroom. Rarely do we find such exciting opportunities as this to engage students in a project in which they are both learning and producing who worked information with authentic value to our society. The Texas Capitol Vietnam Veterans Monument Living History on this project Curriculum invites all of us to participate in contributing to the preservation of the stories of Texans who served in the Vietnam War. Though few may realize that one of the first serviceman killed in the conflict – and one of the last killed in what had by then become a full-blown war – were Texans, we all know that Lyndon B. Johnson, who served as President of the United States during a portion of the war, was a native Texan – and that is only the beginning of a very large story of the role of hundreds of thousands of Texans in Vietnam. The citizens of our state have a long history of rising to the challenge when asked to serve and defend our country, and the war in Vietnam was no different. It is fitting that we honor them by guiding our students to understand and help preserve their individual stories. This curriculum provides a menu of engaging, student-centered English III and U.S. History TEKS-aligned activities to help your students learn about the Vietnam War and connect with veterans in your community as they read, write, listen, watch, interview, research, incorporate technology, and ultimately create projects as personal historians. It is designed so that you may use parts of it or the entire unit for your classroom. It contains both English/Language Arts lessons and Social Studies lessons for high school students. Many of these lessons can be used in either course, or as part of a cross-curricular unit, and the components are easily implemented for individual or collaborative work and moldable to the needs of your students. We hope you will find these activities useful as you educate today’syouth about Texans who answered their country’s call of duty. Rebecka Stucky, English Teacher, Westlake High School Kristy Robins, English Teacher, Westlake High School Cathy Cluck, History Teacher, Westlake High School PRODUCTION TEAM Cheryl Fries, Instructional Designer/Producer Cheryl Fries is an award-winning former teacher and documentary filmmaker who has written and produced the Vietnam War documentary filmsIn the Shadow of the Blade, An Ocean Away, A Touch of Home: The Vietnam War’s Red Cross Girls, and When I Have Your Wounded. As communications consultant for the Texas Capitol Vietnam Veterans Monument, she has overseen the effort’s branding, fundraising materials, websites, and special events, and wrote and produced its video components. As a teacher, she co-developed and taught an interdisciplinary World History/World Literature curriculum and piloted her district’s first academic inclusion classroom. Rebecka Stucky, Educational Consultant/Writer Rebecka Stucky is currently in her 39th year of teaching, having taught high school students in Kansas and Texas. Currently, she teaches AP Junior English and serves as English Department Chair at Westlake High School in Austin, Texas. A dedicated teacher, Ms. Stucky has won numerous awards for her efforts in the classroom. Among her other achievements, she has worked as a reader for the AP English Language exam and developed an acclaimed “Virtual Wall” Vietnam War project for high school juniors. For the past fifteen years, Ms. Stucky has been a College Board consultant for the Southwest Region and a consultant for NMSI. She has led many seminars and summer institutes in Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Colorado, Hawaii, and Washington D.C. Kristy Robins, Educational Consultant/Writer Kristy Robins currently teaches AP Language and Composition at Westlake High School. She began her career in a rural Texas district, where she wrote English I, English II, and English II pre-AP curricula, and helped her students obtain a 98% TAAS passing rate. She then taught and developed curriculum, including credit recovery, at Harlingen South High School where she also sponsored Student Council. Her diverse teaching career working with students of all abilities in language arts spans 14 years. Cathy Cluck, Educational Consultant/Writer Cathy Cluck has taught history for 22 years, including the last 15 at Westlake High School. She has won several awards for teaching excellence in the classroom, and has served as an AP Reader for the AP European History exam. Ms. Cluck has co-written curricula for U.S. and European history, and worked as a consultant on several U.S. History textbooks. Website Design: Curriculum Video: Landers Brannon Graphics: Arrowhead Digital Design and Strategy Lisa Kirkpatrick Films PRINT DESIGN This product produced by the Texas Capitol Vietnam Veterans Monument Committee with major funding by In memory of Terry B. Burkett, USN Vietnam Veteran, TCVVM Committee © Copyright TCVVM 2015. This curriculum may be reproduced for non-profit educational purposes only with credit to TCVVM.org. All other rights reserved. Contents n RATIONALE AND OBJECTIVES l PAGE 7 TEKS l PAGE 9 Scope and Sequence l PAGE 13 n SETTING THE STAGE l PAGE 14 Get Your Groovy On, Rock the Sixties and more l PAGE 15 The Draft Game l PAGE 16 Activate Prior Knowledge l PAGE 20 Flash Presentations: Welcome to Vietnam! l PAGE 21 Learning from Documentary l PAGE 23 Geography of the Vietnam War l PAGE 26 Materiel of the Vietnam War l PAGE 28 Vietnam War Timeline l PAGE 30 n READINGS l PAGE 32 Texans in the Vietnam War l PAGE 33 Agent Orange l PAGE 39 Formative Assessment l PAGE 41 Stories
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