Students will identify ways in which traditional media and textbooks may have skewed or rendered invisible the voices of Vietnamese refugees by critically analyzing sources from US media and educational textbooks, and construct an excerpt to add to the US history textbook.
Students will compare and contrast the identities of Vietnamese women from the past to present by analyzing sources and creating visual representations. In doing so, they will find how some gender roles have evolved, while other factors have remained consistent.
Students will analyze the role of religion in shaping Vietnamese American communities, specifically focusing on its impact on community activism, cultural preservation, and intergenerational relationships, by interacting with various text and video sources and creating a poster.
Students will be able to define anti-communism and diaspora nationalism and describe its influence on the Vietnamese American community as a political ideology as well as a cultural phenomenon, by creating a poster presentation.
Students will be able to trace the motivations of Vietnamese refugee migration to Texas and the Gulf Coast, identify the local responses to refugee resettlement in Seadrift, Seabrook, Rockport, and other small coastal communities in Texas and impacts of racial conflict by answering text dependent questions and creating a medium of choice.
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 evaluate the impacts of departure and resettlement experiences on Vietnamese Amerasians post-war by analyzing various sources and constructing proposed amendments.
Students will be able to connect themes of emotion to the separation and loss experienced by the Vietnamese refugee community through an analysis of music and a short response.
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 be able to identify difficulties and obstacles faced by refugees at the refugee camps by analyzing sources and creating a medium of choice.
