Intergenerational Communication and Memory
HSS 11.11, RI.11-12.1, RI.11-12.9Students will be able to explain the impacts of intergenerational communication by observing oral history testimonies and engaging in a silent discussion.
Grade 12
Issues in Vietnamese American Education: Future of Refugee History, Language, and Culture
HSS 11.11, RI.11-12.7, W.11-12.2, SL.11-12.4Students will summarize the education conditions for first, 1.5, and second generation Vietnamese Americans and then determine recommendations to create conditions for a more inclusive school setting today.
Debunking the Good Refugee: Vietnamese American Resistance
HSS 12.8, RI.11-12.7, W.11-12.9Students 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.
Deportation & Community Resistance
HSS 11.11, RI.11-12.7, W.11-12.6Students will trace the relationships and make connections between refugee trauma, criminalization, community organizing, and collective healing by critically evaluating narratives of assimilation or the model minority and engaging with primary source materials to create an infographic.
Fighting A New War: Marginalization and Criminalization of Vietnamese Refugee Youth in the US
HSS 11.11, RI.11-12.7, W.11-12.2Students will be able to explain how Vietnamese refugees experienced intersecting systems of oppression upon their arrival to the US by interacting with primary sources to create a fictional newspaper article.
Mental Health in the Vietnamese American Community
HSS 11.8, RI.11-12.2, WL.CM5.I: Receptive Structures in Service of Communication, WL.CN1.A: Connections to Other DisciplinesStudents will be able to identify and describe the effects of the Vietnam War on the mental health of first generation Vietnamese Americans by engaging in a gallery walk activity to analyze various excerpts of “House of Sticks: A Memoir.”
Introduction to Mental Health in Vietnamese American Resettlement
HSS 11.9, RI.11-12.2, W.11-12.9Students 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.
Genealogy of Stereotypes and Place-Making in Gangs
HSS 11.8, RI.11-12.7, W.11-12.3Students will be able to trace the genealogy of the stereotypes to gang influence and other socio-cultural environmental factors that Vietnamese American youth in the postwar generation faced (in the late 1990s through early 2000s) by analyzing various multimedia sources and drawing connections with their own identity and experiences in a personal free verse reflection.
LGBTQ+ Communities and Organizing
HSS 11.10, RI.11-12.7, SL.11-12.1Students will explore various LGBTQ+ Vietnamese American experiences, intersectionalities of their identities, and legislation against LGBTQ+ communities in the US by analyzing oral history interviews and creating a video reflection.
Vietnamese and the Nail Industry
HSS 11.8, HSS 11.11, RI.11-12.7, W.11-12.8Students will identify key factors that fostered Vietnamese refugees’ participation in the nail industry by analyzing segments of media clips and creating a zine.