AnnouncementsMemrise is due today. 225 words. Have it pulled up on your computer while you do the vocab for today. Memrise will be due next Monday as well. 250 words. December 14. The last Memrise will be due on January 4th, and that total will be 300 words. We will have a guest speaker on Thursday. We will meet in the Library that day. Book Project Dates: Summary Product -- December 11 Historical Product -- December 18 13 days until Christmas break. Vocabulary Dien Bien Phu -- Most significant victory of the Viet Minh over French colonial forces in 1954; gave the Viet Minh control of northern Vietnam Geneva Accords -- A 1954 peace agreement that divided Vietnam into Communist-controlled North Vietnam and non-Communist South Vietnam until unification elections could be held in 1956 Ngo Dinh Diem -- American ally in South Vietnam from 1954 to 1963; his repressive regime caused the Communist Viet Cong to thrive in the South and required increasing American military aid to stop a Communist takeover. he was killed in a coup in 1963. Vietcong -- A group of Communist guerrillas who, with the help of North Vietnam, fought against the South Vietnamese government in the Vietnam War. Also called the "VC," or "Charlie". Ho Chi Minh Trail -- A network of paths used by North Vietnam to transport supplies to the Vietcong in South Vietnam Gulf of Tonkin -- August 1964: LBJ announced that a North Vietnamese gun boat had carried out an unprovoked attack on two US destroyers in the Gulf of Tonkin of the coast of North Vietnam Gulf of Tonkin Resolution -- 1964 Congressional resolution that authorized President Johnson to commit U.S. troops to South Vietnam and fight a war against North Vietnam without ever going back to Congress for an act of war Operation Rolling Thunder -- bombing campaign over North Vietnam, supposed to weaken enemy's ability and will to fight Notes
When you're done, pull out your notes from our VERY FIRST UNIT! Unit 1 -- The Westward Movement. Then you can go on to the Padlet. The first thing I want everyone to do is create a Padlet account. You can do this by logging in with Google and it will save your login information for every subsequent visit.
Here's how this is going to work. You're going to use this same Padlet for the rest of the semester EVERYDAY for the purpose of practicing your Constructed Response skills. The trick to getting full points on a Constructed Response question is to answer all parts of the question, to the best of your ability. This is the most important part of the test.
Each table will take a different powerpoint (linked below), and you will create a summary of what you most need to know from that one lesson. Your summary must have at least 5 facts, but no more than 10. If you ABSOLUTELY must have more than 10, see if you can combine some facts. This should be in bullet form.
You must post your summary on the discussion board. Include:
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