In this lesson students will enhance their skills to comprehend, analyze, and assess the meaning and significance of historical texts as evidence to support their positions and viewpoints on the invasion of Grenada during the Reagan administration. This lesson is designed to supplement the students' visit to the Reagan Presidential Library and Museum and their participation in the Discovery Center which simulates the invasion. The purpose of this lesson is to augment their understanding of the events from different perspectives to approach a more balanced understanding of the 1983 invasion in the context of the Cold War.
Time required: Since this lesson is online, the students can complete the Guiding Questions for homework over the course of a week, with time each day for short de-briefs woven into the class lessons. One class period is needed for a discussion of the Essential Questions:
1. How does what you read/saw in the primary source materials of this lesson substantiate what you learned in the simulation?
2. How does what you read/saw in the primary source materials contradict what you learned in the simulation?
3. How do you explain these differences?
4. Given this new information, what might be some other reasons for Reagan's decision to invade?
5. What lessons or insights does this give you about the vital role of information? Should it be free or restricted?
Justify your argument.
Time required: Since this lesson is online, the students can complete the Guiding Questions for homework over the course of a week, with time each day for short de-briefs woven into the class lessons. One class period is needed for a discussion of the Essential Questions:
1. How does what you read/saw in the primary source materials of this lesson substantiate what you learned in the simulation?
2. How does what you read/saw in the primary source materials contradict what you learned in the simulation?
3. How do you explain these differences?
4. Given this new information, what might be some other reasons for Reagan's decision to invade?
5. What lessons or insights does this give you about the vital role of information? Should it be free or restricted?
Justify your argument.
[History of Bills, Volume 129 (1983)]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]
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H.J. Res. 406--Joint resolution declaring that the President violated the constitutional prerogative of the Congress to declare war when he ordered U.S. Armed Forces to invade Grenada on October 25, 1983, and requiring the immediate withdrawal of U.S. Armed Forces from Grenada; to the Committee on Foreign Affairs. By Mr. WEISS (for himself and Mr. Crockett) |