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1960s-1980s
Era of Civil Disobedience
Primary Skill
Cause and Effect
Compelling Question
What were the three most significant American events that took place throughout the 1960s and 1970s?
Era of Civil Disobedience
Primary Skill
Cause and Effect
Compelling Question
What were the three most significant American events that took place throughout the 1960s and 1970s?
Essential Lessons
Civil Disobedience
Essential Lessons will help you with specific information about the impacts of Civil Disobedience in America.
We are engaging in this complex thinking of connecting different topics to show our deeper understandings.
We are engaging in this complex thinking of connecting different topics to show our deeper understandings.
Growing Our Vocabulary
Directions: These words need to be added to your personal glossary with definitions.
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escalation
sit-ins counterculture |
marginalization
boycott nuclear family |
Vietnamization
feminism environmentalism |
Add words that you came across throughout these Essential Lessons that you learned and add them to your glossary.
Civil Disobedience
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Racism by Design:
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Pick Two:
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Newsela:
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Newsela:
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Newsela:
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“Tear Down This Wall”
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Pick Two:
Choose Two Topics from Below
These may be articles/videos/podcasts about our topics and there may or may not be specific instructions to do something with them other than read/watch/listen and see how it can add meaning to your understanding.
Culture: Music, Gender Roles, Arts, Propaganda, Culture Wars, Sports, Video Games
Music Festival:
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Music Festival:
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History of Hip Hop |
1960s Television |
Creation of Garfield the Comic Series |
Fire Island Pines Lost Soundtrack |
Gaming It:
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Nintendo Game Boy |
The Story Of 'Sesame Street':
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Sciences: Space, Energy, Medicine
First Artificial Heart
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"Patient Zero": AIDS in America
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40 Years After Three Mile Island, Americans Split on Nuclear Power |
Labor Fights
Howard Zinn:
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Black Panthers:
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Podcast: When Reagan Broke the Unions (1980s) |
Arizona (State Forty-Eight) History
Arizona: Water issues, Goldwater and the Suns (1960s) |
Arizona Memories from PBS
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Arizona: Politicians, scandals & nuclear power (1980s) |
Government: Politics, Laws, Foreign Interactions
Longest US War (until Afghanistan):
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Cuban Missile Crisis
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JFK Assassination
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Mỹ Lai Massacre and Hugh Thompson (1968) |
Democratic National Convention:
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Kent State
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Film - The American Diplomat (53min) |
Watergate Scandal:
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Drinking Age Changed |
Presidents and Legacies
Nixon (37):
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Ford (38):
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Carter (39):
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Reagan(40):
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Major Supreme Court Decisions
Women's Healthcare:
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Funding of Schools:
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Protected Speech - Flag Burning:
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Peoples Fighting against Racism/Exploitation/Oppression
What is Civil Disobedience? |
(Whole Class Activity)
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The Weather Underground Organization (WUO) |
Watts Riots
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COINTELPRO:
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Civil Rights Movement:
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Putting the Movement Back into Civil Rights Teaching |
Gay Liberation Movement:
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Anti-War Movement: Vietnam |
Environmental Movement
More Silent Spring |
Earth Day! |
Lovejoy's Nuclear War |
Dr. Robert Bullard:
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1980s Environment and How the Reagan-Era Shaped the Natural World |
Earth Day 50th anniversary: Exploring the 1980s |
Primary Source Analysis Practice
Additional Sources
- Financial Regulation of the Sixties - Securities and Exchange Commission
- Book (Historical Fiction) The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
- Book (American History Historiography) Lies My Teacher Told Me by James Loewen
- Chapter 9: See No Evil: Choosing Not to Look at the War in Vietnam