Learning Goals
Students will be able to formulate and investigate a focused question about how fear, power, and competing ideologies shaped the Cold War and affected people around the world using evidence from multiple primary and secondary sources.
Students will be able to analyze the development of superpower rivalries, alliances, proxy wars, international organizations, decolonization, and migration from 1945–1991 as interconnected causes and consequences of the Cold War.
Students will be able to analyze how Arthur Miller develops complex characters and themes of fear, reputation, authority, conformity, justice, and conscience in The Crucible through dialogue, conflict, choices, and historical context.
Students will be able to compare representations of accusation, loyalty, fear, and conformity in The Crucible, Cold War documents, and propaganda while explaining meaningful parallels and important differences between the Salem witch trials and the Red Scare.
Students will be able to synthesize credible evidence from literature and Cold War sources into explanatory and argumentative writing with accurate claims, relevant quotations or facts, clear reasoning, and source attribution.
Students will be able to collaborate in research discussions and shared design decisions by building on peers' ideas, explaining source-based connections, resolving disagreements, and assuming responsibility for the accuracy of the public wall.
Students will be able to evaluate and improve their research, writing, and learning strategies through exit tickets, peer critique, teacher conferences, rubric check-ins, and midterm and final reflections.
Products
Cold War–Crucible Investigation Portfolio and Four-Brick Set
Each student will submit an investigation portfolio documenting a focused question, source notes, credibility decisions, literary and historical analysis, drafts, feedback, revisions, and reflections, culminating in four polished evidence-based bricks. The set will include timeline, literary analysis, cross-source comparison, and human-impact writing prepared for the public wall.
Color-Coded Cold War and The Crucible Public Brick Wall Exhibition
Teams will synthesize members' research into a 100-brick installation connecting the Cold War timeline, acts of The Crucible, cultural shifts, and global human experiences, with the right side visually progressing from stability to fracture. At the open house, students will serve as docents who explain connections, acknowledge limitations or conflicting evidence, and answer family and community questions.
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