Curriculum Archive Scaffold: Your archive should be created within a context of an

activities, lessons, and unitsteachers should have a Topic, Compelling Question

and Culminating Activity in mind as they develop materials for students. Therefore,
you should first brainstorm each of these before you think seriously about creating
your curriculum archive. The scaffold below will help you begin brainstorming
Learners

Topic/ Outcomes

Who are the

learners to whom
you are most likely
to teach this
lesson?

What is a topic that

is rich and
significant enough
to deserve in
depth treatment?

The 1960s were a

time of change in
America. The Civil
Rights Movement
was in full swing
along with many of
the new policies of
the Great Society.
The Vietnam War
was at its height,
and young people
everywhere were
voicing their
opinions like never
before. The
counter culture
was here to stay as
a result of the
events of the
1960s in particular
1968. This lesson
is relevant to
participatory
democracy and
cultural diversity

The desired
outcome is for
students to
understand the
most controversial
year in our modern
history, and to look
at it through the
eyes of the people
who lived it. With
the benefit of Live
footage, we will be
able to watch
these events as
they unfold, and
hear the opinions
as the news broke,
and not through
hindsight. It will
allow students to
develop their own
sense of the
history of 1968.

Compelling
Question
What is a specific
question that
requires students
to make a specific,
evaluative
judgment for which
they will have to
use knowledge
gained from
activities from this
unit of study?
How did the events
of 1968 forever
shape our modern
democracy, and
how were the 3
events tied to one
another?

Culminating
Activity
What will the
students do at the
end of the unit to
answer the units
Compelling
Question?

After completing
the webquest,
students are to
develop a 1968:
year in review
article that shows
not only knowledge
of the major events
of 68, but allows
the student to
think critically and
investigate the
events for
themselves
through multiple
first-hand accounts
and primary
sources.

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Azzam, Mohammad. [Username]. (2014, Jan 4). The Greatest Speech Ever-Robert F Kennedy
Announcing the Death of Martin Luther King. [Video File]. Retrieved from
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Blobaum, D. (2008). Chicago 68. Retrieved from http://chicago68.com/c68chron.html
Heath, Jim. [Username]. (2011, Nov 24). Riots at 68 Democratic Convention. [Video File].
Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9aeNJljuZcI.
NPR Books. (2008, April 3). Echoes of 68. Retrieved from
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=89326670
Texas Tech University Vietnam Center and Archive. (2015). Retrieved from
http://www.vietnam.ttu.edu/resources/tet/.
Tpleines. [Username]. (2010, May 22). Report From Vietnam (1968). [Video File]. Retrieved
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