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=Unit Cover Page=


 * Unit Title: Grade Level(s):** The Pacific Theater of World War Two
 * Subject/Topic Area(s):** Social Studies: History
 * Key Words:** World War Two, WWII, Pacific theater,
 * Designed by: Time Frame:**
 * School District: School:**


 * =Brief Summary of Unit= ||
 * This unit will be all about asking you, the student, to form new connections and new ideas about material related to the Pacific theater of WWII. With such a broad topic, it is only natural that our classroom activities should vary as well, and to that end we will use primary source research, music and audio clips, artwork, literature, firsthand accounts, all in addition to the more traditional resources of writing and textbook reading. In this class you will take on many roles, including Museum (Box) curator, writer, interviewer and/or interviewee, director, actor, and last but not least, historian. Throughout the unit, I want you to continually consider how culture affects war (and how war affects culture), how concerns in the Pacific theater differed from those in the European one, how relationships between the United States and other countries involved in the war changed over time and affected the war in the Pacific. You will be asked to consider the positions of the Japanese, the Americans, the Soviets, communists, anti-communists, war criminals and POWs alike. At the end of our unit, our class will design broad final projects that will allow us to make critical connections between lessons and the real world, and show a truly deep understanding of the Pacific theater of WWII. ||