Welcome !

Please pick up a textbook, a piece of white paper, and have out your green

essential questions page

Today’s goalsRecognize the dilemma that European

countries had in dealing with Hitler, Stalin, and Mussolini

Understand three essential question associated with World War 2

Name the event that brings the USA into World War 2

Use a text tagging strategy in order to define ways the USA’s homefront helped the war

effort

Dilemma

• I am going to read a dilemma to you that could take place in any school in the US.

• As you listen to this story, I want you to predict what will happen next.

• How does this story connect to the rise of dictators and the start of WW2?

Go visual poster with your 9 o clock partner – 15 minutes

• Pick one essential question/statement

• State it at the top of your paper

• Create a visual representation of the facts that support your answer for it.

Dr. Suess Political CartoonWhat is the connection between this and what we are

learned ?

Turning essential questions into statements

Instruction on turning questions into statements.

Turn to your elbow partner and answer verbally how you would make this

question a statement:How did countries in Europe appease

Hitler prior to World War 2?

Essential Questions – World War 2

Section 1 – How did dictators acquire and expand power in Europe in the 1930s?

In the Graphic Organizer, list (2) facts for each dictator and Restate the question as a statement.

Section 2 – How did peaceful nations confront foreign aggressors in World War 2?

In the boxes, complete the statements started. Provide specific details.

American enters World War 2

Pearl Harbor

• What do you know about Pearl Harbor?• Share with the person next to you what

you think you know.

• Hear responses from your classmates.

• Listen while I offer a short reminder of that attack

• (see notes in bottom of powerpoint)

Text tagging – The American Homefront

• With the reading provided you are going to text tag on the paper provided.

• Read the entire article.• Pick 3 “Passages” in bold letters• Please turn in your text tagging sheet when done for

evidence of your learning today.• “Passages” are the headings in the article in bold• Why it is important is a “ summary”• Evidence is what line in the paragraph did you get your

information.

Share a few responses

• The home front• The high price of mobilization• Doctor – win the war• The underbelly of mobilization• Women and the workplace• Japanese-American Internment• African-Americans and the homefront• Riots of 1943

Closure

• Share with your elbow partner what are some ways that US helped on the homefront for the war effort ?

• What evidence do you have that this is accurate information ?