SUSIE & TYLER’S CURRENT EVENTS November 19, 2013

THE BASICS Topic JFK: 50 years after the assassination

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/13/clinton-jfk-photo_n_3748638.html

Articles

• “JFK: His ambition and legacy” http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-3445_162-57612556/jfk-his-ambition-and-legacy/

• “Fifty years after his assassination, what is JFK’s legacy?” http://metro.co.uk/2013/11/06/50-years-after-his-assassination-what-is-jfks-legacy-4173429/ (Great visuals!)

• “Obamas, Clintons to visit JFK gravesite Wednesday” http://www.boston.com/2013/11/16/obamas-clintons-visit-jfk-gravesite-wednesday/OcONgzmkIAzQW0jbBqsNFN/story.html

• “Five myths about John F. Kennedy” http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/five-myths-about-john-f-kennedy/2013/11/13/bf1d1442-4b1a-11e3-be6b-d3d28122e6d4_story.html

• “How John F. Kennedy’s Assassination Changed Television Forever” http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2013/11/14/how-john-f-kennedy-assassination-changed-television-forever?s_cid=related-links:TOP

• “JFK’s undelivered speech gave vision of where he wanted to lead U.S.” http://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/latest-columns/20131112-jfks-undelivered-speech-gave-vision-of-where-he-wanted-to-lead-u.s..ece?&nclick_check=1

• “JFK’s warnings about television, money, and politics ring true today” http://blog.constitutioncenter.org/2013/11/jfks-warnings-about-television-money-and-politics-ring-true-today/?utm_source=Constitution+Daily&utm_campaign=4381711d85-

• “Dallas LOVE Project envelops the city as JFK 50th anniversary nears” http://dallas.culturemap.com/news/arts/11-17-13-dallas-love-project-29-pieces-jfk-assassination-50th-anniversary/

• “JFK’s back brace may have cost him his life, doctor says” http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-18563_162-57612884/jfks-back-brace-may-have-cost-him-his-life-doctor-says/

Questions to Consider • Who was John Fitzgerald Kennedy? • Why has the JFK legacy been so powerful? What was and is the role of the media

reporting on JFK? • Was John Fitzgerald Kennedy a “profile in courage”? How did he demonstrate his

courage? • What was the meaning of the “Ask not” quote in Kennedy’s Inaugural Address? What

does it mean today?

THE EXTRAS Pre-teaching, Extensions & Further Reading • “The world changes as President John F. Kennedy is assassinated by Lee Harvey

Oswald – and pain carries on 50 years later” http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/jfk-assassination-article-1.1515624

• “John F. Kennedy Assassination Flight – What Happened on the Flight from Dallas” http://www.esquire.com/features/flight-from-dallas-1013

• “Kennedy Assassination” http://www.ushistory.org/us/56d.asp • “JFK 50 Years: Celebrate the past to awaken the future” http://www.jfk50.org/ • “President John F. Kennedy – Life, Death, Legacy”

http://www.c-spanclassroom.org/Lesson/1296/President+John+F+Kennedy+Life+Death+Legacy.aspx • “Footage of Kennedy assassination used as teaching tool in Oklahoma City high school”

http://newsok.com/footage-of-kennedy-assassination-used-as-teaching-tool-in-oklahoma-city-high-school/article/3905763

• “Historian Daniel Czitrom: JFK far more complicated than Camelot” http://www.masslive.com/news/index.ssf/2013/11/local_historian_jfk_far_more_c.html

• Lesson Plans: o John F. Kennedy Presidential Library & Museum

http://www.jfklibrary.org/Education/Teachers.aspx

What’s the connection? Constitution • “Religious Freedom in the Constitution”

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/primary-resources/jfk-firstamendment/ • “Qualifications for the Office of President of the United States”

http://www.presidentsusa.net/qualifications.html Students • “Obama to honor JFK legacy this week” (Lesson idea: Ask students to write a draft of

what the President will say.) http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2013/11/16/obama-to-honor-jfk-legacy-this-week/

• Profile in Courage Essay Contest http://www.jfklibrary.org/Education/Profile-in-Courage-Essay-Contest.aspx

Oregon • “ Pete Mark shares presidential artifacts, from Founding Fathers to JFK, at Oregon

History Museum” http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2013/06/pete_mark_shares_presidential.html

Questions to Consider continued… • Why are there still questions about what happened on November 22, 1963? • What does the 50th anniversary of the assassination mean for the United States of

America? • How did Kennedy’s assassination change the country? How did it change politics, the

press, legislation (especially civil rights), the city of Dallas, security for the president, our faith in the rule of law?

• Two other assassinations followed: Martin Luther King, Jr. on April 4, 1968, and Robert Francis Kennedy on June 5, 1968. How did they change American life?

• November 22, 1963, has been called the end of an era. How did the events following the assassination change the way the United States was viewed by the world? (Vietnam, Civil Rights movement, etc.)

• What were the successes and failures of the JFK presidency? Was he a tragic hero, flawed leader, or both?

• What place will JFK have in United States history? Why? • How did the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Civil Rights Movement, the Vietnam War, the

creation of the Peace Corps, the space flights affect our view of the Kennedy presidency? • How did the transition to Lyndon Baines Johnson as President demonstrate the resiliency

of the USA? • What does it mean that “America lost her innocence” on the day JFK was killed? • How did the fact that JFK was Catholic affect his role as a candidate for the Presidency?

Why was the issue of religion significant for the country?

We the People Lesson Connections Middle School, Level 2

• Unit 3, Lesson 16: How much power should be given to the executive and judicial branches?

High School, Level 3

• Unit 4, Lesson 23: What is the role of the president in the American Constitutional System?

Oregon State Social Science Standards/CCSS HS.35. Examine the pluralistic realities of society (e.g., race, poverty, gender, and age), recognizing issues of equity, and evaluating need for change. 6-8.RH.2 Determine the central ideas or information of a primary or secondary source; provide an accurate summary of the source distinct from prior knowledge or opinions. 6-8.RH.8 Distinguish among fact, opinion, and reasoned judgment in a text. 9-10.RH.2 Determine the central ideas or information of a primary or secondary source; provide an accurate summary of how key events or ideas develop over the course of the text. 11-12.RH.2 Determine the central ideas or information of a primary or secondary source; provide an accurate summary that makes clear the relationships among the key details and ideas.