WQTErich

toc =G.R.A.S.P.S= = = ( Feel free to copy and paste what you have on your wiki page for Dr. Grace.) Rubric on Paper: Information Quality, Organization, Mechanics and Grammar, Sources, Amount of Information, Construction of Paragraphs. Rubric on Presentation: Enthusiasm, Preparedness, Staying on Topic, Content, Comprehension, Length. ||
 * Goal || Your goal is to create a news broadcast using iMovie that shows what life was like for American soldiers during the Vietnam War. ||
 * Role || One student will be a young reporter for CBS, whose job is to go to a military camp in Vietnam and interview the other members of the group (who will be playing soldiers in the United States army) about their life in the camp and how they are treated back home in the United States. ||
 * Audience || The audience is the executives for CBS, who will be deciding whether or not your piece is good enough to air in the primetime slot. ||
 * Setting || CBS's ratings are sliding, as more viewers are watching other channels' coverage of the war. They are sending a young, fairly inexperienced reporter to Vietnam, to interview the soldiers stationed at a particular camp. Your bosses want an unbiased report about the soldiers to air in a primetime slot. If your report is good enough, it be shown on the same show as Walter Cronkite, and may even win a Peabody Award! ||
 * Presentation || Your video should be a well researched, quality piece about what soldiers experienced while they were in Vietnam, in their camps, and also what they experienced when they came back home to America. Also, students will hand in a 4-5 page paper that shows their findings. ||
 * Standards || Rubric on Video: Knowledge of Content, Questions and Answers, Cinematography, Interest and Purpose, Length, Costumes and Props, Titles and Credits.

=Introduction= CBS needs your help to reclaim their title as ratings king of primetime news! They are sending you, a young and fairly inexperienced news reporter over to Vietnam to interview several soldiers about their experiences both at war in Vietnam and back home in America. But you have some competition! You are not the only reporter CBS has sent to Vietnam, and CBS only has time to show one piece on the soldiers in their broadcast. They will be choosing the best one to show on their primetime show, which happens to be anchored by the famous Walter Cronkite. So get over to Vietnam and show America what being a soldier in Vietnam is all about!

=Task= CBS's ratings of their primetime news programs are slipping, and they choose a young news reporter to go to Vietnam and interview American soldiers about their experiences both in Vietnam, and their experiences as soldiers back home in the United States. Your bosses want this young reporter to create a quality, unbiased piece about the soldiers, one that will air in their primetime slot, and help win back viewers from their competition. But CBS is also sending other young reporters with the same assignment as you. The executives will choose the best piece, the piece that most accurately portrays the experiences of the soldiers, and that piece will be featured on the same show as the legendary Walter Cronkite. One student in the group will be the news reporter who is interviewing the soldiers, who will be played by the other members of the group. In conjunction with the video, which is to be made using iMovie, students will hand in a paper 4-5 pages in length, that shows their findings. =Conclusion= Now that you know what kinds of experiences the soldiers had in Vietnam, how do you feel about it? How do think the soldiers coped with the things that they saw and/or experienced? Why do you think they were treated the way that they were treated by the American people and in the hospitals? Why do think it was so dangerous in Vietnam? How do think these experiences affected the veterans as they grew older? Think about these things as you study other areas of the Vietnam War, and as you continue to study other areas of history.