Lesson Plan 1

by | Jul 21, 2021

Lesson Plan 1: Teaching with Duty to Country This resource guide overviews the key elements of the online exhibit and includes ideas to get your students to explore the exhibit’s contents and make meaning of the larger story of Filipino veterans. The full Duty to...

Lesson Plan 5

by | Jul 21, 2021

Lesson Plan 5: You Decide: Filipino Veterans’ Long Fight for Justice In this lesson, students debate what to do at each of five key turning points in the long fight for veterans’ benefits and recognition. They learn about the different strategies activists employed,...

Lesson Plan 4

by | Jul 21, 2021

Lesson Plan 4: Putting the Rescission Act on Trial In this lesson, students prepare to put the 1946 Rescission Act on trial for unfairly stripping Filipino veterans of the benefits they had earned as members of the U.S. armed forces in World War II. To prepare their...

Lesson Plan 3

by | Jul 20, 2021

Lesson Plan 3: Filling in the Picture: World War II in the Philippines Students trace the course of the war in the Philippines by looking closely at illustrations, primary sources, an online exhibit and eyewitness accounts. Students are asked to “fill in the picture”...

Lesson Plan 2

by | Jul 14, 2021

Lesson Plan 2: Confronting U.S. Imperialism in the Philippines Students watch interview clips with a historian and review primary sources to learn how the U.S. presence shaped life in the Philippines during the colonial era and look for evidence of how Filipinos...