DIRECTIONS:

1. Pair the students up in groups of 3 to 4 and have them read primary source
documents that has information on the home front and the Vietnam Front. They will do
this for about 20 minutes.
2. After the 20 minutes are up, the students will come back together and share their
findings with the class.
3. After they share, they will fill out a chart and answer the 3 questions on the Google
docs.
4. When finished, they will submit it to me by the end of the class period.

Students will be able to:

1. demonstrate their understanding on the issues of US foreign policy on the Vietnam
front and also how it was on the home front.
2. generate verbal or written responses by using academic and content vocabulary
3. explain their reasoning when filling out the chart and the 3 questions.

Needs Developing/Almost Proficient/Meets the

improvement(1 there(2 points) Criteria(3 points)
point)

knowledge Student does not Student does use Student does use
use knowledge knowledge from knowledge from
from primary primary sources in primary sources in
sources in order to order to answer order to answer
answer questions questions and to fill questions and to fill
and to fill out chart. out chart however out chart and does
They need more they are missing it well that shows
practice on trying to 1-2 key details that they met the
find the key details criteria.
of
readings/assignme
nts.

Academic Student does not Student does use Student does use
content/language use academic or academic or academic or
content vocabulary content vocabulary content vocabulary
correctly in the correctly in the correctly in the
written responses. written responses written responses
but needs to build and are meeting
more in order to the criteria.
show they are
meeting the criteria.

rationale Student does not Student attempts to Student explains their

 explain their rationale explain their rationale in a clear
clearly or it is hard to rationale, but shows and concise way that
follow. some confusion in is easy to
their explanation. understand.

GRAPHIC ORGANIZER
Home Front Vietnam Front

1 arguments on whether it
was right or wrong to enter
the war

2 how each side felt about

the war

3 how each side reacted

towards the war

4 which side “won” more?

Answer these questions to deepen understanding of the Content Standard.

1. Do you think it was right for the US to enter Vietnam? Why or Why not?
2. How do you think both sides felt on the topic of the war?

EXAMPLE

This is the complete assignment to provide you with an example of how the document
should be filled out. Please understand that your answers will be different from mine
and that is okay!

GRAPHIC ORGANIZER
Home Front Vietnam Front

1 arguments on whether it
was right or wrong to enter
the war
It was right to enter the war
at first but as time
progressed, they felt the
war was not winnable.
It was right to enter the war
at first because they are
trying to stop communism
and it was going to be
another war they were
going to win.

2 how each side felt about Hopeful at first but later Hopeful at first but did not
the war dreaded the war. want to stay and wanted to
go home.
3 how each side reacted Hated the war towards the
towards the war end and wanted the troops
to come home
They felt they were winning
but later in the war, they
wanted to go home since
many lives are being
sacrificed.

4 which side “won” more? This side can be said to This side wants to say it’s
have won more since the winning but history shows
protests worked and the it wasn’t winning.
troops are coming home.

Answer these questions to deepen understanding of the Content Standard.

1. Do you think it was right for the US to enter Vietnam? Why or Why not?
- People can argue that it was right for the US to enter Vietnam since they were
under the concept of the Domino Theory where if one country falls to
communism, the other countries will also; so, in order to prevent that, the US
sent troops into Vietnam and thus began the Vietnam(ese) War.

2. How do you think both sides felt on the topic of the war?
- Both sides were okay with it in the beginning since they believed it was just
another war that they were going to win(being the US was basically a giant at
that time and Vietnam was just a “little pebble” to the US.) As time progressed,
both sides were starting to get antsy and the people on the homefront wanted out
of the war and wanted the troops to come home. In order to achieve this, they did
many protests during the war. The troops also wanted to go home but they, at the
same time, did not want to go home.