A Young People’s History, Chapter 22, “Resistance”

Quizlet: Videos: No More Nukes, Protest in the 1980s, USA vs USSR, Cesar Chavez,
Gulf War Protests

Introduction:

1. How was resistance different in the late 70s,80s, and 90s from the 1960s?
2. What issues did they organize around?

No More Nukes!

1. Who pioneered the anti-nuclear weapons movement?
2. What did they get arrested for?
3. Who took a leading role against Reagan's bloated military budget and what did they do?
4. What was the largest political demonstration in American history?

Social Issues

1. What happened in Boston 1981?
2. Normal people were linking military policy with what?
3. What were Latinos struggling against and what did they do?

War and Antiwar

1. Explain some of the anti-war voices leading up to Desert Storm
2. How and why did the rhetoric change once the war started?
3. Why did Bush’s Desert Storm launch an “overwhelming force”?
4. Explain patriotic support of the war being very high and falling.

Remembering Columbus

1. What was the significance of 1992?
2. What did Natives do?
3. Why were people upset by the counter-Columbus events?
4. Where does hope in America lie?

ESL Unit 4: Writing in the Past Tense

Let us see how much A class can get done before the Lunar New Year. I am happy that this unit has readings on such humanitarians such as labor organizer Cesar Chaves and author/peace activist Helen Keller.

January 2019

WEEK 1 The SimplePast: Cesar Chavez
Class 1: pg. 100-103
Class 2 pg. 104-105

WEEK 2 Irregular Verbs: Helen Keller
Class 1:pg. 106-109
Class 2: pg.110-112

WEEK 3 Editing
Class 1: pg. 113-114
Class 2 pg. 115-117

WEEK 4 Complex Sentences
Class 1: pg. 119-121
Class 2 pg.  122-127