1. Lesson Title: The Red Scare
  1. Grade/Age Level: 11th grade
  1. Subject Area: AP US History
  2. Time allotted for the lesson: 1 60 minute class period for discussion of the Red Scare and showing how to use Glogster.com, 1 60 minute class period to create the glog, and 1 60 minute period to share glogs and discuss each topic.
  1. Short description of lesson:
  2. In this lesson, the learners will learn about the pivotal events of the Red Scare and what it was. They will take that information and create a glog using Glogster.com of their own.
  1. Idaho State Curriculum Standards met in this lesson:
  2. 9-12.USH2.5.1.1: Compare competing belief systems of the 20thcentury, including communism, totalitarianism, isolationism, and internationalism.
  3. 9-12.USH2.1.1.2 Discuss the causes and effects of various conflicts in American history.
  1. Instructional Objectives:
  2. Assess the rise, significance, and consequences of McCarthyism (e.g., HUAC, the Loyalty Review Board, effect on civil liberties, how McCarthyism changed people’s lives, reasons for its fall).
  3. Analyze the social changes of the postwar period, 1945-1960.
  1. Instructional Procedures:
  2. Lesson Set
  3. Students will be shown the image of important figures of the Red Scare and the teacher will ask if anyone knows anything about any of the people on the screen and how they might be connected.
  1. Techniques and activities
  2. After a discussion of these figures, the teacher will show students how the buttons bring up videos that explain each of the pictures. The teacher will show one of the short clip of the HUAC hearing and explain what they didand how their investigations sparked the Red Scare in the United States in the 1950s.
  3. Students will then be shown the website and the teacher will explain that students will create a similar image (also known as aglog) on their choice of the following topics:
  4. Joseph McCarthy
  5. Red Scare Propaganda
  6. Rosenberg Trial
  7. The Hollywood Black List
  8. Edward R. Murrow
  9. Alger Hiss
  10. J. Edgar Hoover and the role of the FBI
  11. The effect of the Cold War on television and movies in the 1950s
  1. Lesson Closure: After the glogs are created, students will come back together as a class and discuss each of these eight topics with students sharing what they learned about how their topic affected the spread of the Red Scare.
  1. Adaptations for special learners:
  2. Students that need accommodations would be able to express their knowledge as a graphic organizer that is teacher created rather than a glog.
  1. Supplemental Activities:
  2. To link with what students are discussing in their English classes, they could also include a short summary of how the Red Scare of the 1950s lead Arthur Miller to write the play The Crucible about the Salem Witch Trials in the 1600s.
  3. A class discussion would take place where students could also compare and contrast this Red Scare to the earlier Red Scare in the 1920s.
  1. Assessment/Evaluation:
  2. The grade for this project would be determined by their glog as well as their participation in the discussion in class after they create it. Glogs would be graded on if they were factual or not and if they put thought into how they put it together so that the information they are trying to convey is easily accessible.
  1. Learner Product:
  2. The product that students will produce is their glog on their chosen event during the Red Scare.