Instruction

World War II Fronts
Pacific Front, Home Front, European Front

Additional Information

The group task handout included the following material:

Group Research and Work Groups
Slide Show
Most important things to cover: Story board; collect ideas, pictures, sounds, & movies input in stages
Newspaper
Time to cover connect early to late papers
Main stories lesser stories Pictures Maps Charts
input on computer movies/sounds
Résumé
Main persons influences on life events of importance
intention philosophy
Content Creativity Presentation
Résumé is best Biography is Ok
Research information - keep Bibliography
Book, Author/Editor, pages (must)
Publisher, city, date (nice)

example
Fisher Files, Fisher, H.M., cc
(Pedagogue Ink, Austin, 1995)

One handout gave the students their group assignments and listed the People, Places, Events, Concepts, etc. their group would need to be sure to research and to present in some way.

It included:

 Pacific Front People

Blamey, Thomas
Chiang Kai-shek
Doolittle, Jimmy
Halsey, William
Hirohito
MacArthur, Douglas
Mao Tse-tung
Mountbatton, Lewis
Nimitz, Chester
Spruance, Raymond
Stilwell, Joseph
Tojo, Heideki
War Lords
Yamamoto, Isoruku

 Home Front People

Brown, Joe E.
Cochran, Jackie
Einstein, Albert
Fermi, Enrico
Hersey, Lewis
Hobby, Oveta
Hope, Bob
Hull, Cordell
Japanese Interns
LaGuardia, Fiorello
Love, Nancy
McAfee, Mildred
Oppenheimer, Robert
Randolph, A. Phillip
Roosevelt, Eleanor
Roosevelt, Franklin
Rosie the Riveter
Stratton, Dorothy
Truman, Harry
Wallace, Henry
Winnie the Welder

 European Front People

Borman, Martin
Bradley, Omar
Churchill, Winston
Clark, Mark
DeGaulle, Charles
Demsey, Miles
Eisenhower, Dwight
Goebbels, Heinrich
Goering, Hermann
Hitler, Adolf
Konev, Ivan
Leclerc, J.
Marshall, George
Montgomery, Bernard
Mussolini, Benito
Rommel, Erwin
Stalin, Joseph
Zhukov, Georgi

 Pacific Front Places/Topics

Bataan
Burma Road
Coral Sea
Corregidor
Gilberts
Guadalcanal
Hiroshima
Iwo Jima
Leyte Gulf
Marianas
Marshals
Midway
Nagasaki
New Guinea
Okinawa
Pearl Harbor
Solomons
Tokyo Raids
USS Missouri

 Home Front Places/Topics

Censorship
Civilian Defense
Detroit, Michigan
Hanaford, Washington
Lend Lease
Los Alamos, New Mexico
New Orleans, Louisiana
New York City
Norfolk, Virginia
Oak Ridge, Tennessee
Office of Price Admin.
San Antonio, Texas
San Diego, California
San Francisco, California
Selective Service
V-Mail
War Bonds
War Production Board
Washington, D.C.

European Front Places/Topics

Anzio
Atlantic
Barbarosa
Berlin
Bulge/Ardennes
Dunkirk
El Alamein
Leningrad
London Blitz
Moscow
Normandy/Overlord
North Africa/Torch
Paris
Rainbow Five
Rome
Rotterdam
Salerno
Sea Lion
Sicily/Husky
Stalingrad

Group Individual Roles and Tasks

Leader=General
Newspaper=Publisher
Slide Show=Producer
Résumé/Bio=Public Relations
Computer=Admiral
Group Progress=Reporter
Research Leader=Librarian
Scanner=Photographer
Internet=Colonel
Enrichment=Commodore

Everyone will:

Keep Journal of daily plans/activities
Work on part of the three projects
Slide Show/ Newspaper/ Résumé

Contributors:
Harley Max Fisher
David Crockett High School off site  
Austin