Unit 7 Extra Credit Project

This extra credit activity is related to the people, places, events, and equipment of the Spanish-American War, World War I, World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War.

You will design, research, and produce a Modern American War ABCs book designed for an elementary school-level student. This book is worth 200 points.

• You are assuming the role of a teacher.
• Your book should be at least 26 pages long (one page per letter) and must be illustrated with student-created art. This can include drawings, sketches, collages, and paintings. Example: A is for Allies, B is for Battleship…
• Each page must contain simple explanatory text (it may be rhyming text). You must use your own words.
• The book should be bound with cardstock or other material, with an illustrated cover.
• A list of possible vocabulary words follows. You may want to conduct research to choose your own vocabulary words.

If you cheat in any way – using another person's words or images as your own – you will receive a zero for this project. Incomplete books without all 26 letters represented will not be accepted.

Your project must be submitted on or before 4:15pm Tuesday, January 13.



Possible Vocabulary Words for The ABCs of Modern American War

Allies, Auschwitz
Bombardment, beaches, Britain, battleship, Blitzkrieg
Churchill, courage, Canadians, camaraderie, Coral Sea
D-Day, Dunkirk, Doolittle, de Gaulle
Eisenhower, El Alamein
Foxhole, fortification, flame-thrower, Free French
Germans, G.I., Guadalcanal, Guam
Higgins boat, hedgehog, hedgerow, home front, helmet, Halsey, Hiroshima
Invasion, incoming, Iwo Jima, island hopping, Italy
Juno Beach, jump zone, June 6th, jeep
Kriegsmarine, K-ration, kamikaze
Landing craft, Luftwaffe, land mine, lend-lease, Leyte, Los Alamos, London
Medic, minesweeper, Manhattan Project, Midway, Moscow
Normandy, Navy, New Orleans, Nagasaki, North Africa, Nuremberg Trials
Overlord, Omaha, OSS, Okinawa
Paratrooper, Panzer, Paris, Patton, Pearl Harbor
Quisling, Quebec Conference, queasy, quiet, quick
Rommel, radar, Roosevelt, Rangers, rationing, Resistance
Submarine, Stalin, Second Front
Teamwork, tank, Tojo, Tokyo, Truman
Utah Beach, U-boat, uniform, USO
Victory, V-1 rocket, V-mail
World War II, Wake Island, WAC, WAVES, war bonds
X-ray, XX Committee, X-craft
Yalta Conference, Yank, Yamamoto
Zero, Operation Zeppelin, Zhukov

These are only suggestions. You may research your own words.