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    This document outlines the schedule and topics for a history unit on World War II, the postwar Baby Boom era, and the rise of modernism in America. The unit will cover the rise of fascism leading up to Pearl Harbor, wartime diplomacy and key battles like D-Day, postwar strategies like containment and the Red Scare, cultural trends of the 1950s like rock music and suburban life, and the emergence of modernist and postmodernist literature and art in the 1940s and 50s. It will culminate in a test on April 10 to assess students' understanding of this pivotal time period in American history and culture.

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    This document outlines the schedule and topics for a history unit on World War II, the postwar Baby Boom era, and the rise of modernism in America. The unit will cover the rise of fascism leading up to Pearl Harbor, wartime diplomacy and key battles like D-Day, postwar strategies like containment and the Red Scare, cultural trends of the 1950s like rock music and suburban life, and the emergence of modernist and postmodernist literature and art in the 1940s and 50s. It will culminate in a test on April 10 to assess students' understanding of this pivotal time period in American history and culture.

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    Unit Nine: World War II, the "Baby Boom," and the Birth of a (Post) Modern Nation

    March 18: Preview the unit and World War II; rise of global fascism, neutrality, and Pearl Harbor

    March 19: Satire with W.H. Auden; Humor with Thurber, Dorothy Parker, and E.B. White

    March 20: Frost and the American home front (not really related…we are just going to study
    them on the same day)

    March 21: Research Essay Work Day

    March 22: Junior Ring Celebration

    March 25: Wartime diplomacy, D-Day, introduction to “atomic diplomacy,” prep work for
    Monday’s discussion

    March 26: Debating the atomic bombs; Hersey

    March 27: Postmodernism: Faulkner’s Nobel acceptance speech; “The Lottery”; Marxism
    review

    March 28-April 1 Easter Break

    April 2 : “Containment” strategies and Red Scare

    April 3: Southern Gothic: “A Rose for Emily” and “A Good Man is Hard to Find”

    April 4: The Baby Boom and 1950s conformity

    April 5: New Historicism review; The Beats and the Beat Generation

    April 8: Elvis and Rock ’n ’Roll; Walker’s “1955”

    April 9: Review

    April 10: Unit 9 Test

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