About This Lesson
ESSENTIAL QUESTION:
WHY IS IT SO DIFFICULT TO SECURE THE BLESSINGS OF LIBERTY AS PRESCRIBED IN THE PREAMBLE TO THE CONSTITUTION?
Objectives:
SWBAT analyze, evaluate, source and annotate excerpted primary and secondary sources regarding ‘Truth and Liberty’ toward skill building for the AP United States History exam.
BOOKS:
Brookhiser, Richard (2019) Give Me Liberty. NEW YORK: Basic Books (Hachette). (Pgs. 257-262)
Hochschild, Adam (2019) Orwell on Truth. NEW YORK: Houghton Mifflin (Pgs. 106-109; 117-118; 130-139; 169-177; 185-188; 189-197)
VIDEO CLIP: “What You’re Seeing . . . Is Not What’s Happening”
https://times.com/5347737/trump-quote-george-orwell-vfw-speech
HOMEWORK:
How Deepfakes and Other Reality Distorting AI Can Actually Help Us – Extreme Tech (July 2019)
Inside Mark Zuckerberg’s Lost Notebook – Wired – February 12, 2020
https://www.wired.com/story/facebook-mark-zuckerberg-lost-notebook/
