Lesson 9: Fighting for the Four Freedoms: WWII Primary Source Lesson
Duration of Days: 1
Lesson Objective
Students will interpret primary source documents using past AP US History tests
What evidence does the editorial offer that Latinos are deserving of equality?
Why does Wesley believer that black Americans are denied the Four Freedoms?
What difference and what commonalities exist between these two claims for greater rights in American society?
Four Freedoms
HS.SS.2C - 2C. Assess options for individual and collective action to address local, regional, and global problems by engaging in self-reflection, strategy identification, and reasoning.
Students will read excerpts from the League of Latin American Citizens, "World War II and Mexican Americans (1945)" and Charles H. Wesley's, "The Negro Has Always Wanted the Four Freedoms" in "What the Negro Wants (1944)" to analyze the goals of two different minority groups during WWII.
Teacher will guide discussion on the documents.
Class discussion
Two readings in Foner