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Teacher Directions and Questions for Students
The evening before using this lesson go to
antiwar.com/casualties
for an up-to-date number of American dead and wounded.
This number will be needed in card 9. As of May 14, 2005
the count was 1622 dead and 12,350 wounded.
Photographs may be displayed in one of two ways.
Either connect the computer to a
TV monitor or download the image and
make a transparency on a Xerox machine.
Students read cards 1, 2.
Then the teacher asks questions such as:
- Have any of you played America's
Army or newer military computer games like
Special Forces? Describe your experience?
- Has anyone seen an advertisement of TV/MTV for
joining a branch of the military? Describe it.
- What do these games and ads say life in the military is like?
How do they make the military sound inviting as a career?
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Display overhead of WWI poster – "I Want You." (A)
Student reads card 3.
Then teacher asks questions such as:-
Who is the YOU that Uncle Sam wants?
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Is it fair that the working class but few of the
well-to-do serve in the military?
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Display overhead of Two Marine Recruiters. (B)
Students read cards 4, 5, 6.
Then teacher asks questions such as:
- What do you see in this AP photo?
- How might the increased number of recruiters affect you?
- What are the main points the recruiters are trying to get across?
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Display overhead of SF Chronicle cartoon by Tom Meyer "War is a Hoot". (C)
Student reads card 7.
Then teacher asks questions such as:
- What is the main point the General is trying to get across?
- Why do you think the recruiters and the General
are telling young people these things?
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Display overhead of Flag-Draped Coffins Arriving in the U.S. (D)
Student reads card 8.
Then the teacher asks questions such as:
- Why do you think the U.S. Government did not want Americans
to see photos of flag-draped coffins arriving in the U.S.?
Display overhead of Nick Anderson's Cartoon. (E)
Then the teacher asks questions such as:
- What does this cartoon with President Bush and VP Cheney mean?
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Display the illustration of the buses. (F)
Students read cards 9, 10, 11.
Then the teacher asks questions such as:
- What is the message of these readings?
- Note: In March 2006 we tried to find out how many more children had lost a parent.
We contacted Lisa Hoffman, the Newsweek article author, and the
Brookings Institute only to find out no one is collecting this data.
Why do you think the government is not collecting this information?
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Display overhead of New England Journal of Medicine photograph (G).
Student reads card 12.
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Display overhead of New England Journal of Medicine photograph (H).
Students read card 13, 14, 15.
Then the teacher says: "These pictures and the personal accounts are very difficult
to see and hear."
Then the teacher asks questions such as:
- What concerns or questions do these pictures and accounts raise for you?
- Do you think a soldier or marine who is an amputee would be offered the job of
military recruiter? Why or why not? What is the image the recruiter wants to convey?
- What's the difference between violence on TV or in computer games and violence in war?
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Is "war a hoot"?
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Have student read card 16.
Then display photographs of Iraqi civilian dead and injured
(I) (J) (K) (L) as a student reads card 17, which explains each photo as you show it.
Then the teacher asks questions such as:
- Why did the U.S. Government not estimate the number of Iraqi military and
civilian dead during the war?
- Why do you see pictures of Iraqi dead and injured caused by the
insurgents and not those caused by American and Coalition forces during the war?
- How does the number of civilian deaths compare
with the number of military deaths in modern war?
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Display Stephanie Sinclair's photos of American military personnel
(M) (N) (O) (P) as a student reads card 18,
which explains each photo as you show it.
Students then read cards 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24,
all of which concern psychological injuries.
Teacher reminds students that combat pay is $7.50 a day extra.
Then teacher asks questions such as:
- What do you find most disturbing about these personal accounts?
Display Department of Defense Estimate of 250,000 homeless veterans. (Q)
Then teacher asks questions such as:
- What's the connection between the readings about PTSD and the fact
that there are approximately 250,000 homeless veterans?
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Students read cards 25, 26, and 27.
Then teacher asks questions such as:
- What does the decision of the 9th Circuit
Federal Court in the Santiago case mean?
- What is the only guarantee when a
person signs a military contract?
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Display overhead of Two Marine Recruiters. (B)
Student reads card 28.
Then teacher asks a question such as:
- How do you feel about the Pentagon
having your number and more?
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