Name of Assignment: World Cuban Crisis Subject: English / World History Facilitator/Teacher: Ms. Terry Please give a summary of the project/assignment/learning experience : In my humanities class, we learned about the Cold War. Before we could understand what is the Cold war, Ms. Terry asked us to talk to the person next to you and ask if they knew anything about the cold war. After we discussed it with each other, we watched a video about the Cold War. The Cold War is a Political Rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union. This Political Rivalry was a battle of power not war. These nations wanted power over one another but not one of the nations made a huge attack but made unfair attacks. One of our in class projects is we did a Cold War Similation where we all worked as a small group of 3 or 4. We played as we were part of the ExComm that stands for Executive National Security Council. This Council job is to make the decisions that could start or end this so called war. We were given a envolepe contained with secert papers. These papers are pictures and letters about the Russian Navy ships that were sailing to Cuba to deliver the nukes to Cuba. Our group made a desision but first we had to the of the positive consequences and the negative consequences .We decided to remove all weapons from the Cuban Territory , but due to the benifits everyone involed can be executed peacefully . Also to hopefully end this crisis , while potentially resolve the conflict with the .U.S.S.R. . We could hopfully entirely save the Civilian lives that couldnt be saved. After making our decision we wrote a memooradun to the president to let him know our decision.
Which 21st Century Skill do you feel this assignment addresses, and why? Global Awareness ness is the 21st century skill I feel this assignment addresses because being aware of what's happening in the world is important , and learning about the cold war and how it started we could be all aware if its happening again . Many parts of the world we should always be aware of.
What are you most proud of from this assignment, and why? I am most proud of working together as a group and using my voice . Im more of a shy type but working with my classmates I was grouped with made me very comfortable. What was most difficult about completing this task? The most difficult part of completing this task is understanding the different types of documents of pictures and letters because for me I couldn't understand what they were trying to do, but working together with my group made me understand that it was about missiles due to the dates on the papers. How could you improve this work? If you could start over, what would you do differently? There isn't anything Id improve on, my group helped me understand the task and explained to me what to do and what to say.