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Creative Thinking & Making
Historical & Cultural Contexts
History & Memory
Critical Thinking
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Suggested Time Frame:

Review                               5 mins
What Do You
Know Handout:                10 mins
Discussion:                       10 mins
Homework:                       3 nights
Homework Review:           40 mins

Total time:                      2 classes

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Learning Objectives and Cognitive Skills:

Comprehension:
Students will brainstorm and list thoughts about John F. Kennedy
Students will recall and discuss elements of contemporary collective memory

Synthesize and Apply:
Students will reconstruct pre-existing knowledge about JFK and the assassination
Students will form an opinion on the importance of JFK’s assassination in American history
Students will list the images from their memory of JFK and the assassination

PA State Standards:

History:
8.1.12 C Evaluate historical interpretation of events.
• Impact of opinion on the perception of facts.
• Issues and problems in the past.
• Multiple points of view.
• Illustrations of historical stories and sources.

Speaking and Listening:
1.6.11.A Listening to others.

Quality of Writing:
1.5.11.A Write with a sharp, distinct focus.
• Identify topic, task, and audience.
• Establish and maintain a single point of view.

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Lesson 6

Lesson 7


What Do You Know About JFK?
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JfK image from Warhol's collection  

Archival material from Andy Warhol's collection of news clippings from 1963. The Archive of The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh Founding Collection, Contribution The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts

Procedure:

Handouts needed
for Step 2:

The following handouts are
included in the Lesson PDF:

JFK Brainstorm
Handout

Intergenerational
Interview

1. Review the following information with your students:

  • The defining events students listed in Step 1. Collective Memory
  • How collective memory is passed on
  • How collective memory is selective and subject to revision in the retelling of an event over time
  • The role of present-day people—students, historians, and artists alike—who interpret the past based on all the old and new information available to them

2. Brainstorm answers to the questions in the handout JFK Brainstorm.

Jfk brainstorm student sample   JFK brainstorming student sample

3. Discuss what, if anything, has been passed on to your students’ generation as the collective memory of John F. Kennedy.

4. Homework: Intergenerational Interview: Interview a person who lived through and remembers the assassination of JFK (a family member or any person who is approximately 45 years of age or older). Use the Intergenerational Interview Handout.

Alternative: in class play the audio files in this unit to hear a previous generation’s response and collective memory to the assassination of JFK. Discuss the similarities of the accounts.

5. Students should present their interview summaries to the class. Discuss the similarities in the accounts.


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