Rhetoric & Space Race | Knowitall.org

Lesson Overview

Students will engage in a debate over whether the United States should enter the Space Race using rhetoric and historical information.

Duration

1-2 hours

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Traditional Lesson

Essential Question

Should the US enter the Space Race?

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5, 9, 10, 11

Social Studies

Students could use flipgrid to complete virtual debates with one another.

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5-5 The student will demonstrate an understanding of the social, economic and political events that influenced the United States during the Cold War era.
- The post–World War II period was dominated by a power conflict that pitted former allies against each other over economic and political differences. This Cold War affected all aspects of American life at home and abroad. To understand the impact...
  - 5-5.2 Summarize the social, cultural, and economic developments that took place in the United States during the Cold War, including consumerism, mass media, the growth of suburbs, expanding educational opportunities, new technologies, the expanding job...
MWH-5 The student will demonstrate an understanding of the influence of ideas and technology on the development of nation-states and empires in the sixteenth through the nineteenth centuries.
- New ideas and technological developments during this period led to changes in how people viewed the world and how people, in turn, changed their social, economic, and political circumstances. To understand how ideas and technology led to the developme...
  - MWH-5.3 Identify the major technological and social characteristics of the Industrial Revolution.
Grade 1: Orally produce single-syllable words by blending sounds including consonant blends in spoken words.
- Grade 2: Use a base word to determine the meaning of an unknown word with the same base.
  - RI.LCS.10 Analyze and provide evidence of how the author’s choice of purpose and perspective shapes content, meaning, and style.
Grade 2: Read irregularly spelled two-syllable words and words with common prefixes and suffixes.
- Grade 2: Use a base word to determine the meaning of an unknown word with the same base.
  - RI.LCS.10 Analyze and provide evidence of how the author’s choice of purpose and perspective shapes content, meaning, and style.
    - RI.LCS.10.1 Determine an author’s point of view or purpose in a text and analyze how an author uses rhetoric to advance that point of view or purpose.

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Lesson Created By: Cameron Cook