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'One thing worries me...will people...want to forget the whole thing happened?' Lt. J.G. Richard Strandberg


Landing Zone Pick Up


Dear America is the novel you will use for your Reading and Responding outcome. You will need to complete a variety of S/N activities and write a text response essay to complete this unit. Keep in mind that you might choose Dear America as the text you focus on for your exam.


This blogspace has been set up to enhance your study of the text and develop your language and writing skills. It is a collaborative space where you can share and discuss your learning. Perhaps most importantly, this allows you to conference and comment on each others' writing to improve your prowess as we get closer and closer to exam time. You can access the VCAA website for detailed assessment and exam information to build your knowledge of what is required in text response essays.





Thursday, May 31, 2012

Dear America - American Involvement in the Vietnam War

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Vietnam - Flags and Maps


Click here to view annotated maps of the Vietnam War. They provide information about particular places and locations that help to put the circumstances into context.

Using the information on the web maps note the following on your handouts:

- Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon - Paris of South East Asia – French imperialist/colonist influence – lost 1954)
_ Hanoi
_ Ho Chi Minh Trail
- note 3 points about the TET offensive
- Quang Tri and significance
- note what happened to Saigon on April 30, 1975
- the north-south demarcation line

Access map templates at:

http://www.eduplace.com/ss/maps/pdf/world_pacific.pdf
http://www.worldatlas.com/webimage/countrys/as.htm
http://d-maps.com/m/vietnam/vietnam35.pdf
http://www.wadsworth.com/history_d/templates/student_resources/0534264638_murrin/maps/swfs/mur29_1.html



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