Lesson 4: The Great Society
Duration of Days: 5
Lesson Objective
SWBAT Identify the ways in which the Federal government attempted to capitalize on economic prosperity to help those excluded from that prosperity.
How successful was Lydon Johnson's Great Society in spreading the economic prosperity of the Golden Age to the lower classes of American society?
INQ 9–12.12, INQ 9–12.12, INQ 9–12.13, INQ 9–12.14, INQ 9–12.15, HIST 9–12.9
Students will conduct an inquiry into the success of the Great Society, which will require significant skills on the DOK 4.
The most basic presentation of understanding will be descriptions of the Great Society programs. The more complex will demonstrate the problems they attempted to solve, with the most advanced students making claims about the success or failure of the programs and their impact on modern American society.