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Here's what teachers across the country are doing in the
classroom with
World War II education.
MICDS WWII curriculum and Wiki-site
www.micds.org
St. Louis, MO
Our 7th grade 20th Century US History classes
have involved themselves in several different
projects during our examination of the WWII
experience and its impact on the American
identity. In January the class took a trip to
the nearby St. Louis Holocaust Museum (http://www.hmlc.org/)
to tour the exhibit and to meet with survivors.
Students were also in touch with students from
the Philippines, Germany, Denmark, Italy, Japan,
and Poland in order to ask about how their
communities select to remember World War II. In
addition to collecting international input, each
student also carried out an interview with
friends and relatives who have remembrances of
the time. International input, pictures, video,
and our interviews were brought together on our
wiki-site for comment, viewing, and
collaboration:
http://fitz-tory.wikispaces.com/. MICDS is
sending a CD-ROM containing these student
interviews for inclusion in The National WWII
Museum Teacher Student Resource Library.
Teacher Profile:
Mike Fitzgerald,
mfitzgerald@micds.org
Mike Fitzgerald has been teaching for 17 years
in independent schools. The last 11years he has
been teaching 6th and 7th grade history in the
middle school at MICDS (Mary Institute and St.
Louis Country Day School). Mr. Fitzgerald is a
graduate of both Gettysburg College and
Accompsett Jr. High in NY.
Teacher Profile:
Patrick Woessner,
pwoessner@micds.org
Patrick Woessner has been with MICDS for 14
years, eight as the Chair of the Middle School
Science Department and for the past six as the
Coordinator of Instructional Technology. He is
a graduate of the University of Minnesota and
Webster University.
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"The Proper Application of Overwhelming Force": The
United States in World War II:
http://edsitement.neh.gov/view_lesson_plan.asp?id=653
In
this curriculum unit students will examine the role
that the United States played in bringing about
victory of the Axis Powers. They will learn about
the strategies that were developed, and how they
played out in reality. They will become familiar
with the two major theaters of the war--Pacific and
European--and how developments in one affected the
course of the fighting in the other. Finally, they
will learn how the various military campaigns--on
land and sea, and in the air--all contributed to the
war's successful conclusion.
Lesson One: Turning the Tide in the Pacific,
1942-1943;
Lesson Two: Turning the Tide in Europe, 1942-1944;
Lesson Three: Victory in Europe, 1944-1945;
Lesson Four: Victory in the Pacific, 1943-1945
Lesson Writers:
John Moser, Associate Professor of History, Ashland
University and
Lori Hahn, Sheffield Middle Senior High School,
Warren, PA
Teacher Profile: John Moser,
jmoser01@zoominternet.net
John Moser is associate professor of history at
Ashland University in Ashland, Ohio. He is author
of three books:
Twisting the Lion's
Tail: Anglophobia in the United States, 1921-48
(Macmillan Press, 1999),
Presidents from
Hoover through Truman, 1929-1953 (Greenwood
Press, 2002), and
Right Turn: John T.
Flynn and the Transformation of American Liberalism
(New York University Press, 2005).
Teacher Profile: Lori Hahn,
lori.hahn@wcsdpa.org
Lori Hahn is currently an American History teacher
at Sheffield Area High School, in the Warren County
School District, Warren, PA. She obtained her
Bachelor’s Degree in History at Messiah College and
is currently enrolled in the Master’s of American
History and Government program at Ashland
University, Ashland OH. She resides in Warren with
her husband and two girls.
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Gahanna Lincoln High School’s WWII Curriculum and
Website:
http://glhswwii.tripod.com
Gahanna, OH
This WWII class website was originally designed and
constructed by a senior as a project 2 years ago.
Teacher Dave Glieco has since taken over the
maintenance of the site. The website is designed to
help students keep current with the WWII course
objectives and includes the course syllabus, project
guidelines, and due dates for projects. In
addition, the website publicizes the upcoming WWII
class events. In the future the site will also be a
resource for interested visitors with maps,
documents, pictures and, hopefully, interviews with
WWII veterans.
Teacher Profile:
Dave Glieco,
gliecod@gjps.org
I
graduated from The Ohio State University in 1996
(finally at age 44) and am in my 12th year at
Gahanna Lincoln High School. I teach US History
also, and proposed and developed the class on World
War II. This is the third year for the semester
class and it is the most popular elective in the
high school. The thing that I like the best about
the class is that it is always changing. Whenever I
find something better to add, I can replace and
subtract things that are not as interesting.
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Suncoast Community High School WWII Seminar,
http://www.palmbeach.k12.fl.us/SuncoastHS/
Riviera Beach, FL
Review of daylong WWII Conference, December
2007:
The enthusiastic response we got from
veterans (and our kids who fund some of
them) was great! During our first panel, we
had a former member of the Hitler Youth
onstage with a Marine who had enlisted in
1937 because he didn't like what he saw
happening in the newsreels. Their comments
about life before Pearl Harbor made a great
opening. We followed them with 4 speakers
who talked about life on the Home Front, and
the ladies onstage stole the show with their
remembrances and anecdotes. One
participant, who was a boy in Massachusetts
during the war, also gave some interesting
comments, as did another veteran who spent
the first half of the war as a civilian
before he was drafted.
Prior to our lunch break, our European war
veterans shared their diverse stories,
ranging from D-Day, to being a commander in
Patton's Army, to being a POW. They had
some amazing stories, and the students hung
on every word. It was with some reluctance
that we had to wrap up the session for
lunch, but we found that when we did so, the
catered lunch we provided offered the
speakers an opportunity to meet each other,
and they peppered each other with questions
and really enjoyed each other- some made
connections they are still apparently
enjoying today. Our last session, following
lunch, covered the Pacific War, and two
speakers truly stood out. The first, a Navy
bomber crewman, was shot down on a remote
island with some of his crew, who then had
to fight off Japanese soldiers before being
rescued by an American submarine weeks
later. Our last speaker of the day was a
survivor of the Bataan Death March and some
brutal captivity in Japanese POW camps. The
students sat in awed silence, and could not
believe what they were hearing. Saving his
story for last was an incredibly lucky way
to end the day, and proved quite
successful.
Overall, we discovered that we had too many
speakers in too little time, and already we
have been asked by our school administration
to do another one next year.
If you or someone you know might be interested
in helping our students learn about this period
in history, please call Mr. David Traill at
(772) 370-5552 or Mr. Steve Walton at (561)
254-2134.
Teacher Profile:
David Traill,
traill@palmbeach.k12.fl.us
David is an IB History teacher at Suncoast
Community High School in Riviera Beach, FL, has
been teaching for 11 years. His interest in
history and World War II came from growing up
with a father in the Air Force. A graduate of
Florida State and Florida Atlantic Universities,
he is writing his first book about World War II
during his spare time. David attended The
National WWII Museum’s first International
Conference on WWII in the fall of 2006.
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