Vocabulary Builder Course 7

Lesson 19:

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Introduction
Students have read about architect Maya Lin’s work on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

Lesson Description
Students will visit the Vietnam Veterans Memorial home page and use information they find there to answer four short-answer questions.

Instructional Objectives

1. Students will explore the Vietnam Veterans Memorial home page.
2. Students will use their understanding of vocabulary words to answer four short-answer questions about the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

Web Quest Activity Answers

1. Answers may vary. All answers should explain how the memorial gives solace, and any material quoted from the Web site should be enclosed in quotation marks. One appropriate sentence is “The memorial grew out of a need to heal the nation's wounds as America struggled to reconcile different moral and political points of view.”
2. The height of the letters incised in the wall is 0.53 inches (1.35 centimeters).
3. Some felt that Lin’s design “did not appropriately honor the veterans of Vietnam.” As a result of this imbroglio, two additional components were added to the Memorial: the Three Servicemen Statue by Frederick Hart and The Vietnam Women’s Memorial, designed by Glenda Goodacre.
4. Jan Scruggs thinks that the Memorial has a didactic message: "I think it will make people feel the price of war...it will make them understand that the price has to be paid in human lives."

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