Overview                                                        Back to Navigation Bar

Objectives

Students will:

·        Investigate primary sources in the Veterans History Project on the Library of Congress website

·        Analyze female and male Persian Gulf interviews

·        Describe experiences of male and female Persian Gulf veterans by using the LOC interviews

·        Compare and contrast the experiences of male and female Persian Gulf Veterans

Recommended time frame

2 days

Grade level

9-12

Curriculum fit

Social Studies, technology

Materials

Computer access

Interview analysis form

Venn Diagram

NCSS Standards                                            Back to Navigation Bar

*Culture-a,b,d,f/Time, Continuity, & Change-b,c/Individual Development & Identity-c,g,h/Power, Authority, and Goverance-a,b,c,d

Procedures                                                     Back to Navigation Bar

Day One:

*Explain the historical significance of women’s involvement in Persian Gulf War I

*Introduce students to the LOC website

http://www.loc.gov

*Steer students to the Veterans History Project

*Question students as to how the veterans’ interviews are primary sources

*Once on the website, show students how they can get to what they need quickly by checking off specific information (go to “Search the Veterans Collection”).  If students check: all fields together, Persian Gulf War, female, and digital collection, they should be able to hear or read 140 interviews.  They will follow the same procedure for male interviews, but obviously change the gender category.

*Give students remainder of time to read or listen to four female interviews and four male interviews.  It’s up to the individual teacher if they would like to have a variety of different military branches represented.

Day Two:

*Students will begin the description and analysis part of the interviews by way of the Interview Analysis Worksheet.

*Students have to complete one worksheet per veteran interview.

*Once they have completed the worksheet, they are then to compare and contrast their veterans’ experiences with a Venn diagram (templates can be found on www.edhelper.com).

Evaluation                                                      Back to Navigation Bar

*Interview Analysis Worksheet has point value assigned for each question on the worksheet.

*Venn diagram-One way of assessing the diagram is to assign a point value to the two contrast sections and a point value to what they have in common.

Extension                                                        Back to Navigation Bar

*Students could go out into the community and interview local Persian Gulf veterans using questions of their own in combination with the Interview Analysis Worksheet.

*Students could compare the experiences of women Persian Gulf War veterans with women who served in other wars.  The LOC has interviews from WWII to present.