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 * What was life like for the grunts in country, humping the boonies? Using the various resources in and out of class, your task is to give a voice to a Vietnam soldier. Your soldier will be in the form of a** [|**voicethread**] **that will be embedded in your Unit 8 notebook. You may work with up to two other people on the assignment, as long as you all work together! The expectations are …**
 * You have a **voicethread with images of soldiers** from Vietnam. You should have no more than four images or four slides on your voicethread. Please identify the source of each image.
 * Your annotations should all be completed in **first person** and should contain **detail and historical fact**.
 * Your annotations must cover the following topics:
 * One annotation about the **challenges** you faced in guerilla warfare
 * One annotation describing **the enemy** (the Viet Cong and/or NVA)
 * One annotation describing **the tunnels**
 * One annotation describing the **use of chemicals** by the military
 * One annotation describing **search and destroy missions**
 * One annotation describing the **Tet Offensive**
 * One annotation describing **escalation**
 * One annotation describing **the draft**
 * One annotation describing **your feelings** as a soldier
 * One annotation that is an actual meaningful quote from a soldier who served in Vietnam
 * Two to three of your annotations **should be spoken**

Use our class activities and video, Creating America (pp 840-845) and some of the links below for information. Looking for primary sources? Check out [|Vietnam Oral History Project from Texas Tech], [|The Vietnam War - Oral histories], [|Letters from Vietnam]
 * Vietnam - Combat sources
 * From ABC-CLIO - [|Tet Offensive], [|Agent Orange], [|tunnel rats], [|napalm]
 * [|Guerilla Warfare in Vietnam]
 * [|The Tet Offensive]
 * [|Vietnam Era Lottery Results]
 * animations - [|war in Southeast Asia], [|tunnels], [|Tet Offensive]
 * video - [|Underground Tunnels] and [|The Tet Offensive]

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Images of soldiers from the Vietnam conflict
 * [|www.**vietnamsoldier**.com]
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**VOICETHREAD INSTRUCTIONS - READ CAREFULLY!!!!!**

When you create your [|voicethread] and and your annotations and comments, click on "**PUBLISHING OPTIONS**" on the bottom of the screen and make sure you "**ALLOW ANYONE TO VIEW**" the voicethread. If you want a partner to comment on it, allow "**ANYONE TO COMMENT**". Embed your voicethread on a new page in your Unt 8 notebook by clicking on "**EMBED**" on the bottom of the voicethread, copying the code, clicking "Embed Widget" in wikispaces (the little TV set), and paste the code in the "Other HTML" section. Easy stuff.

While reading reading the newspaper I found out that to try to make the US want to make a treaty like they did with other countries Vietnam tried to escalate the war. Escalation did help immediately helped the southern part. This gave the communist control over the southern part that they liberated. The governments in those cities fell to the army and also the viet con or the citizens that fought. President Johnson had permission "to take all necessary measures to repel any armed attack against the forces of the United States and to prevent further aggression."

On tv the draft was being shown. The draft was very hard for individuals and their families to go through. They would pick dates and if your birthday was on that birthday they had picked then you would be drafted. The first 200 were for sure, the second 200 could go either way and the last 200 did not have to care because they would not go. No one wanted to go to war because the type of fighting that they did was gorilla war fair in which they had underground tunnels that they could go through.

http://voicethread.com/#u266880.b1177023.i6345537 also on duncans and sams wiki: http://unit8sambduncanb10.wikispaces.com/