Unit Goals Examples
This page is dedicated to developing and improving my personal goals for particular units in the course material. Ideally I would have a page for each class I would teach and have extensive goals for each unit in the form displayed below. I highlight the important aspects of the unit and would go into further discussion during lectures or discussions in class and ensure that students have mastery or near mastery in each of these topics.
- Early Cold War Society (Truman & Eisenhower)
- Discuss Containment Policy under the Truman Administration
- Discuss the Truman Doctrine
- Discuss the Second Red Scare, Alger Hiss, the Rosenbergs, and McCarthyism
- Discuss Brinkmanship, MAD, and Eisenhower's foreign policy
- Discuss Eisenhower's infrastructure plan
- Discuss the Korean War
- Discuss the creation of the UN and NATO
- Have students practice essay on this unit
- Essay prompts on topics discussed above
- Examine multiple primary source documents
- Eisenhower Farewell Address (Military Industrial Complex)
- NSC-68
- Quiz students on unit
- Ensure students understand the distinction between Truman's Containment policies and Eisenhower's Brinkmanship policies