Week 1
Lesson 1
Women During WWII
After learning about women's roles during the war, learners will work on a worksheet that will be provided before class. This activity has the learners examine two cartoons from WWII and analyze what message the cartoon was trying to send, who it impacted, and how it makes them feel today. After working on this activity, learners will share their answers with the class.
Lesson 2
WWII Rationing
After learning about rations, students will get a chance to try their hand at planning a menu with a ration book. I will provide the resource they will need to print out ahead of time and will explain to students how ration books worked and how they will use their ration points to plan a menu. They will then spend some time planning out a week's menu for a family of four, before sharing with the class what decisions they made about which foods to choose and why. 
Lesson 3
Japanese Internment During WWII
This is a reading heavy class, meaning that there will be several readings for the students to go through before completing the activity. Unlike other classes where I have a lecture first, I will instead give them a very brief overview of the internment camps before they start the readings. The purpose of the readings is to give them primary documents from the time period and let them view the documents as citizens would at the time, so that they can see how opinions on the camps could have been
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Lesson 4
Comic Books During WWII
After learning about the growing popularity of the comic books during WWII, students will be shown several comic book covers and we'll discuss how to analyze them. Each student will have access to a pdf prior to class so that they can print the worksheet for this activity. Students will spend some time analyzing the comic covers and filling out the worksheet they've printed before sharing their analysis with the class.
Lesson 5
Analyzing WWII Propaganda and Poster Project part 1
This class focuses on World War II propaganda and how it was used both in America and abroad. The lecture portion of the class will cover the history of WWII propaganda, terms/types of propaganda, an analysis of who the propaganda was geared towards and what messages they wanted to get across, plus lots and lots of pictures of propaganda. 

After learning about propaganda posters, learners will be given an assignment to create their own poster
Lesson 6
Analyzing WWII Propaganda and Poster Project part 2
In part two, we will briefly discuss how pictures could be used in newspapers with different titles to skew opinions and then students will work on an assignment to create titles for several pictures. Posters are due this week and will be shared on the classroom wall.