The+Wall-Reinfocing+Activity

The Wall Activity B: Identify rights and responsibilities of citizenship in the United States that are important for preserving democratic government. Part One: Read the book The Wall by Eve Bunting to the class. While reading the book out loud, have the student fill out a graphic organizer. The students will set up the graphic organizer. Hand out a plain piece of paper to the students. At the top of the paper have the students write the title of the book, which is The Wall. Under the title, the students should write everything they know about the Vietnam War. Under these sentences, students should draw a line horizontally. Students are to draw a line down the middle of the page from the line. On the left side of the page, the students should write “I wonder” and on the right the students should write “I think”. As the teacher reads the book out loud and present the pictures from the book, students should write under “I wonder”, questions beginning with “I wonder”. On the right side, the students should write statements that begin with “I think”. After reading the book to the class, discuss the questions and statements have written on their graphic organizers. This is to create curiosity and emotions pertaining to the Vietnam War.

Part Two: Place a large map of Ohio on the bulletin board. Go to // [] //. At this website, scroll down to the search engine and put in the state in which you live and start the search. The list will come up with ten at a time of all the servicemen and women who were killed in the Vietnam War. Type the soldier’s names and city they are from into a list. Split the class into groups and give each group a list of names. Pass out push pins to the groups. Each group goes to the bulletin board with the map of Ohio and have the students put a push pin in for each soldier who lost their life in the Vietnam War. When everyone has place the push pins into the map, have the students take a look at how many soldiers lost their lives from our state alone. Have a class discussion on the responsibilities of protecting rights of other people, including in other countries.