2012 Reading and Responding Area of Study Starts Here!

Viewing the film of Dear America - Letters Home From Vietnam will complement our study of the written version of the text.

REVISION QUIZ

1. Write down the chapter titles in order. (Without looking at the book)

2. Which chapters have these photographs at their beginning?

• Men saluting coffins draped with American flags.


• Soldier cradling fellow wounded soldier in his arms. (Close up)


• Bare-chested soldier with bullet around his neck.

3. In which American city is the Vietnam Memorial Wall to be found?

4. Give 3/4 reasons as to why writing and receiving letters was so important to the American soldiers.

5. Write down some of the reasons you know the men expressed in their letters for fighting in Vietnam. (Why were they there?)

6. What factors made the Viet Cong such a difficult enemy to fight?

7. The American soldiers were fighting in an 'alien landscape'. What was the fighting landscape like and what were some of the difficult conditions and things the soldiers had to deal with?

8. Write the names of three men who wrote multiple letters in the text.

9. The men who wrote the letters were the authors of the text? What was his role?

10. Look, cover then write these words - soldiers, Saigon, Hanoi, communism, guerilla (warfare), democracy (democratic), patriotic, scared, scarred, unbearable. Did you misspell any? Work to learn them.

Diigo Instructions (Version 1)

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Timeline Powerpoints

Power Point - Vietnam Erinm... by on Scribd

Vietnam War - Timeline

Working in pairs use this timeline activity as a starting point to developing your background knowledge of the conflict in Vietnam. Your PowerPoint responses will be an S/N activity. When complete put them in my electronic pigeonhole and I will figure out how to present them on the blog. It will be interesting to see what the variety of the images are.

Timeline - Vietnam War by on Scribd

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