Tasks:
- Determine what the question is asking you to argue:
- Identify the subject, task, and time period
- Subject: American homefront
- Time period: WWII (1941 - 1945)
- Task: Impact - analyze the way the homefront changed as a result of America's participation in the war; social, political and economic change
- Notes on political and economic changes taking place in U.S. as a result of WWII
- Working in small groups, analyze documents to determine the impact of war on different social groups - women, African Americans, Mexican Americans and Japanese.
- Practice working on an extended analysis of the documents by analyzing the point of view of the speaker, the context of the document, the intended audience, or the author's purpose.
- Choose one group, and write an argument in response to the question. Use evidence from the source to support your argument.
- Read the "Atomic Bomb" for tonight, and identify the different arguments historians have made for why the United States dropped the atomic bombs in 1945.
Reminders:
- Test Corrections due March 1 (that is TODAY)
- AP Test Registration is open (money due by March 8)
