The Sixties: Volume Two: Teacher's Edition (Reading Through History)($29.99Value)

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Reading Through History is pleased to present The Sixties: Volume Two . It includes 194 pages of student activities related to the major figures and events of American history throughout the turbulent decade of the 1960s, as well as the early ‘70s. Volume Two of the 1960s places an emphasis on the Vietnam Conflict and the Counterculture movement, as well as focusing on cultural topics such as sports and music. This is the go-to resource for any teacher in need of information or student reading activities in a U.S. History or World History course. This resource manual is sure to be a perfect fit for any classroom, whether it be elementary school, middle school, high school, or homeschool environment. There are 43 reading lessons in all, and each has several pages of student activities to accompany the reading, including multiple-choice questions, fill-in-the-blank guided reading activities, vocabulary exercises, and student response essay questions. Topics in this volume include: Causes of the Vietnam Conflict, the Gulf of Tonkin Incident, the Tet Offensive, the Viet Cong, atrocities of the Vietnam Conflict, and the aftermath & legacy of the Conflict. Counterculture topics include: hippies, the Summer of Love, Woodstock, draft avoidance, the Yippies, the Kent State Massacre, and Weather Underground. There are also lessons related to the presidential election of 1968, the British Invasion, the Beatles, the Super Bowl, To Kill a Mockingbird, and One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. This volume also includes brief biographies for: Robert F. Kennedy, Ho Chi Minh, George Wallace, Bob Dylan, Johnny Unitas, Wilt Chamberlain, Bill Russell, Muhammad Ali, and Jimi Hendrix.