Students will be able to analyze how anti-war resistance in Vietnamese America redefines the politics of Vietnamese America by evaluating stories of 1970s and 1980s anti-war resistance and primary source documents to complete a reflection.
Students will analyze and reflect on the different types of traumas and challenges that Vietnamese civilians and soldiers experienced during the war and ways they rebuilt and coped with trauma by connecting Post Traumatic Stress Disorder symptoms to subjects and completing an exit ticket.
Students will evaluate the depiction of American history regarding the Vietnamese in popular culture and media by completing a venn diagram and a reflection.
Students will be able to connect anti-Vietnamese attitudes surrounding the passage of the Refugee Act of 1980 and the Orderly Departure Program with anti-immigrant and anti-refugee attitudes that continue to persist in American society today by creating a poster.
Students will identify reasons prompting Vietnamese refugees to risk their lives to flee their homeland by interacting with various sources and creating a reflective medium of choice.
Students will be able to describe the challenges and hardships experienced by the Vietnamese people trying to escape by boat by interacting with a variety of sources in a jigsaw activity and completing a reflection.
Students will compare and contrast the various refugee camps in Asia (Malaysia, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Thailand, Philippines, Macau, Singapore, and Japan) by gathering notes from a variety of sources and sharing their understanding in a medium of choice.
Students will be able to reflect on and summarize the experiences of the boat journey for the second wave of Vietnamese refugees by participating in a graffiti activity and producing an exit ticket.
Students will synthesize resettlement patterns of Vietnamese refugees from 1980–1990 by analyzing reports and completing a written reflection and participating in a peer discussion.
Students will be able to identify the shifting attitudes and emotional experiences of Vietnamese people during the Vietnam War by analyzing various historical events, films, and artistic expressions to create a poster.
