Daily Lessons for Teaching Bloods: An Oral History of the Vietnam War by Black Veterans

Daily Lessons

This section contains 30 daily lessons. Each one has a specific objective and offers at least three (often more) ways to teach that objective. Lessons include classroom discussions, group and partner activities, in-class handouts, individual writing assignments, at least one homework assignment, class participation exercises and other ways to teach students about the text in a classroom setting. Use some or all of the suggestions provided to work with your students in the classroom and help them understand the text.

Lesson 1

Objective: In the introduction, the reader learns that in 1967 while working at the Washington bureau of Time magazine, Wallace Terry was asked to report a story about the role of the black soldier in the Vietnam war. The objective of this lesson is to discuss Wallace Terry and why he wrote the book.

1) 1) Class discussion: Why was Vietnam and the black soldier a compelling...
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