I teach five classes of eighth-grade students from the Twelve Corners Middle School in Brighton, New York. We are currently studying World War II, and we are interested in gaining a global perspective on the war by collaborating with students from other countries that were involved in the war. We have put together a summary of different topics related to World War II and we would like to see what students in other countries are taught about those topics, and how that differs from what we have learned.
We would still appreciate any information that your students could provide about any or all of the topics. We are particularly interested in knowing if we are leaving anything out, and if you find any bias in the information that we have collected.
Our project involves the use of a wiki page. I can give you access to the wiki page so that your students can add content. You can model the information your students provide after the information that my students provide, or have your students write however and/or whatever they want. They can write as much or as little as they would like. Any connection or response would be very meaningful. Your students can add information directly to the wiki page (I’ll provide a username and password), they can send text documents, or they can send information in emails. We will begin entering our information on the wiki page during the week of April 13th.
Please let me know if you would like to participate.
Sincerely,
Chuck Kane
chuck_kane@bcsd.org
Eighth-Grade Social Studies Teacher
Twelve Corners Middle School
Brighton Central School District
Rochester, NY
INFORMATION TO BE COLLECTED BY STUDENTS AT TCMS
I. The War Begins
* Invasion of Poland
* American Neutrality
* The Battle of Britain
* Attack on Pearl Harbor
II. America on the Home Front
* Enlistment/draft
* War Production
* Rationing
* Propaganda
* Opportunities for Women and African Americans
* Japanese Internment
III. The European Theater
* North Africa and Italy Campaigns
* Battle of Stalingrad
* D-Day Invasion
* Battle of the Bulge
* V-E Day
IV. The Pacific Theater
* Midway, Guam, Iwo Jima, Okinawa
* Guadalcanal, Coral Sea
* Island Hopping Strategy
V. The War in the Pacific Ends
* Development of the Atomic Bomb
* Hiroshima, Nagasaki
* V-J Day
VI. The Aftermath
* The Holocaust
* Nuremberg Trials
* The United Nations
* Cold War
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