May 28

Social 33

Today we finished watching the video that we had started last week on the Vietnam War. This video should have given you a nice overview of the key events and key characteristics of how this war was waged. Clearly, the United States had the firepower and technological advantage throughout most of this war, and yet they ultimately lost the war. Key to the American defeat was their inability to win support of the south Vietnamese villagers who increasingly became alienated by the American troops due to their actions. Additional reasons for the American defeat in Vietnam were the guerrilla warfare waged by the Vietcong, and the ever stronger anti-war movement back in the US that was putting pressure on the government to pull out of Vietnam. We also watched a segment of the movie "Born on the Fourth of July", which covered a young man's journey to enlisting in the Marines, and ultimately being wounded in action in Vietnam.

Social 10

For the vast majority of the period, you wrote your Rights and Responsibilities unit final in class today. I am sending you a very important e-mail document today, it is the Final Exam blueprint. You MUST print it off and bring it to class tomorrow, as I will be talking about the Social Studies 10 Final Exam blueprint in tomorrow's class.