LESSON PLAN
This is a 12 hour
application of leadership concepts applied to historical examples. The lesson
plans can be taught as 12 sessions or as 6 two-hour lessons. In every lesson,
the students consider the perspectives of (1) why leaders called for war, (2)
who profits from militarism, (3) who loses from militarism, (4) in retrospect
did the leaders do the right thing?
Activities:
1. PARTICIPATE in
learning warm-up activities by watching the above trailer and asking the students to
first write down the five one or two sentence thoughts about the removal of
native Americans from their land.
2. REVIEW Lesson
Objectives
a. Describe the forces
that lead to military outcomes.
b. Evaluate the
messages and justifications for war.
c. Explain why a leader
must have the courage to resist conventional thinking.
d. Derive leadership
lessons from American history.
3. REVIEW Key Words.
Define key words:
Chapter 1 - empire,
expansionist, genocide, manifest destiny, racist, and theories.
Chapter 2 - apartheid,
cold war, colonial, coup,infidel, insurgency, intervention, and mercenary.
Chapter 3 - anthrax,
depleted uranium, economic sanctions, epic, exploit, liberated, money
laundering, new world order, and systematically.
Chapter 4 - covert,
degradation, dictatorial, executive pardon, extradition, humiliation,
infrastructure, provocation, and state-sponsored.
Chapter 5 - enthusiasm,
no-bid contract, overpriced, revolving door, unilaterally, and war profiteer.
Chapter 6 - billion,
civil liberties, endless, groundwater, military aid, million, radioactive,
trillion, and veterans benefits.
Chapter 7 - corporate,
media, military-industrial complex, mortal, sponsored, and unbiased.
Chapter 8 - deserted,
discipline, disgraced, escalated, mutinous, opposition, polarizing, subjugate,
underground, Vietnam Syndrome, and virtual.
4. COMPLETE exercises to
assess understanding of Key Words.
The introduction plus
the final "Next Chapter" section are ten segments. Two of the total of twelve
segments are reserved for small group presentations on a specific conflict.
The class leader to
write the key words for the specific lesson on the board. For the Key Word
discussions, the class leader calls upon
students for the correct definitions. The class leader can also test for understanding
by asking students to use key words in a sentence.
5. PARTICIPATE in a
lecture/discussion of the lesson.
Students participate in
jigsawing and classroom debates to acquire information.
6. COMPLETE practice
exercises to assess understanding lesson concepts.
The following are the
topics of jigsawing activities.
Jigsaw Lesson Topics:
(1) Indian wars and Manifest Destiny, (2) the Vietnam and "Cold War", (3) the
"New World Order", (4) the "War on Terrorism", (5) war profiteering, (6) the
price of militarism, (7) militarism and the media, (8) leaders that resisted
militarism and (9) what student leaders can do to make our world a better one.
