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Lesson Plan: What do you know about the Vietnam War? 

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Lesson Plan: What do you know about the Vietnam War? 

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Frontloading with Images: Now and Then Refugees

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Frontloading with Images: Now and Then Refugees

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Goodbye, Vietnam by Gloria Whelan is an emotional young adult novel that vividly describes the impact of the Vietnam War on a Vietnamese family. Through the eyes of Mai, a 12-year-old Mai, the story explores her struggles, resilience, and search for identity within the turmoil of the war. The story narrative effectively conveys the emotional and physical impact of the war, focusing on the loss of homes and loved ones due to war. Identity is another central theme in the story where the characters, especially Mai, struggle to understand the complexities of their identities as Vietnamese while considering their national identity in times of war.

What makes this book stand out the most is its ability to blend historical context with a personal narrative, allowing readers to both learn about the Vietnam War and empathize with the people who had lived and witnessed the horrors and the suffering of war and the courage they show while trying to survive during those challenging times.

Goodbye, Vietnam will allow students to practice literature elements such as theme and character development. Students will also be able to make connections between the events in the book and the events happening around the world. For example, the civil war happening in South Sudan and the Russian-Ukraine war sympathize with the refugees our city has.

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Throughout the Unit, students will learn about the living conditions of refugees during the Vietnam War and will be able to compare them to the refugees we have in our city. Students will be tasked to create and run a food drive to collect items to take to a refugee site of their choosing. They will have to conduct research to figure out what items they want to collect. This activity will allow students to take leadership and develop skills in relationship building, empathy, and social awareness.

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In this activity, students will analyze several photographs and create connections between the photographs and the novel Goodbye Vietnam. Students will analyze each picture by answering and discussing questions like:

Describe what you see.

What do you think this photograph conveys?

What's happening in the image?

What can you learn from examining this image?

What do you wonder about?

Students will reflect on how the experience of the families in the photographs and the novel informs their understanding of the global refugee crisis.

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I love the way you start the lesson with the picture and ask students what you see, what they think and wonder. I love the photographs in Hinge 1 and connect to the novel. 

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I love the way you start the lesson with the picture and ask students what you see, what they think and wonder. I love the photographs in Hinge 1 and connect to the novel. 

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The idea of having students conduct their own food drive is amazing. Many times schools do the food drive, but leaving that responsibility to students makes them feel great. It is a responsibility that they know can help change lives and allowing them to run it themselves can be empowering.

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I love the idea of having students create posters or fliers to raise awareness to support refugees. I think it takes what students have learned in the unit and extend it into what students can do. Also, with the food drive, it makes students participate in a functional activity that can actually help others and is some sort of aid to refugees similar to the ones they learn about.

-Skylar :)

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Your unit plan is well designed and the novel Goodbye Viet Nam along with the strategies and ideas you have incorporated are sure to engage!

So glad you are tying this to real life and having a food drive.

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Rachida and Sinthia,

Wonderful job on your unit plan. I especially loved your hinge activities as I feel they are meaningful and teach student so much more than just ELA or Social studies skills. Your hinge activities teach students empathy, social justice, leadership, and so forth. Even the way you both connected what happened in Vietnam to what is happening with refugees now is bringing awareness to a global issue and how the past and the present are connected. You are building bridges to students' learning!

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Literacy & social Studies Unit-Historical Fiction.docx