Cold War Conflicts Essential Question: How do the Olympic Games symbolize competitions between countries ideologies more

than just an athletic competition? Learning Goals: Students can analyze specific Olympic Games and understand how the victories and losses meant more than just winning a medal. Students will understand how the Olympics is often more than just an athletic competition. Learning Targets: I can explain how Cold War conflicts were entwined in the Olympic Games. I can understand how the 1980 Hockey rivalry between the USA and USSR represented larger Cold War conflicts. I can understand why it was so important to Americans to beat the USSR. CCSS: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RH.11-12.2 Determine the central ideas or information of a primary or secondary source; provide an accurate summary that makes clear the relationships among the key details and ideas. Agenda: 1. Review: (10 minutes) Discuss essential question, where I have already learned about it? 2. Lecture: (10-15 minutes) More about what the Cold War was about. 3. USA vs USSR: (5-10 minutes) What do students already know, go over what they dont know yet. 4. Video: (5-10 minutes) Watch clip from Miracle on Ice, watch interviews with players and spectators 5. Reflect: (10 minutes) What did winning it really mean win the USA beat the USSR in hockey in 1980? Assessment: Collect and review reflections, classroom participation Use of Literacy: Written reflection. Materials/ Technology: Use of video clips, Smart Board for lecture notes