z+Vietnam+War

Vietnam Links
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 * [|Vietnam Timeline]
 * [|The My Lai Cases]
 * [|American Experience -Reflections on a War]
 * [|American Experience- Who's Who]
 * [|Vietnam Online | PBS]
 * [|Vietnam War-Battlefield]
 * [|Vietnam War - Women Who Served]
 * [|Vietnam War-Maps | PBS]
 * [|Vietnam War-Primary Sources | PBS]
 * [|Vietnam War - In the Trenches]

=Assignment=


 * 1) 1. **Vietnam War Reflection** - After completing the textbook reading and looking through the links above, do you see any times when the United States could have changed its policies in ways that would have produced better results over the long term? Explain your findings in a post (in the discussion tab above) . This is an individual reflection.

#2. **The War in Music** - Find the lyrics to a song **from the Vietnam era** that refer to the War. You can look through the book to find artist names, or ask your parents/grandparents, and then search on the internet for song titles and lyrics. **One song per person**.
 * Create a "new page" in **this** Wikispace (Actions on the left, New Page)
 * Title it **z the name of the song,**
 * Paste in the lyrics to your song.
 * Under the lyrics,
 * Explain why you chose this song.
 * Describe the song's message.
 * Do the lyrics simply express an opinion about the war, or does it also provoke listeners to take some action?
 * What sorts of reactions might different people (such as a young person eligible to be drafted, a soldier serving in Vietnam, or the parent of such a soldier) have to the song?

When you have completed the requirements for #2,
 * go to the bottom of your lyrics and type "back to "Songs of the Vietnam Era" ",
 * highlight it,
 * click on the link button,
 * go to choose an existing page, choose "z Vietnam War".

If you have done this correctly, when you click on the "Songs of the Vietnam Era", it should bring you back to this page and your song should be listed in the table below.

FIRST LINK MADE GETS THE SONG - NO REPEATS.

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