{"id":4015,"date":"2017-06-15T15:39:09","date_gmt":"2017-06-15T12:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/?p=4015"},"modified":"2017-05-17T15:39:55","modified_gmt":"2017-05-17T12:39:55","slug":"classroom-debate-which-president-achieved-the-most-for-the-usa-and-for-latin-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/uncategorized\/classroom-debate-which-president-achieved-the-most-for-the-usa-and-for-latin-america\/","title":{"rendered":"Classroom debate: Which President achieved the most for the USA and for Latin America?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><a href=\"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/Miscellaneous\/menus\/IB\/americas\/revision.php\">These resources<\/a> are a great way to tie together a study of History of Americas. They specifically cover the period 1945-1980 but the approaches used are easily adaptable for other time periods and regions.<\/h2>\n<h2>Who was the best US President for the Americas?<\/h2>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/main_area\/worksheets\/ib\/revision\/americas\/1a_best_pres_americas.docx\">Classroom debate: Which President achieved the most for the USA and for Latin America?<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>Stage 1: Decide as a class upon the three main themes to look at for domestic policy. Add these as the headings in the right-hand side of the table.<br \/>\nStage 2: Start by completing a chronological-based summary in the row of the table allocated to you. Aim to include around three key points in each cell.<br \/>\nStage 3: go back through and highlight successes \/ failures in different colours.<br \/>\nStage 4: Frame TWO prosecution questions against the President you have been allocated (&#8220;It is not true that&#8230;and my evidence for this is&#8230;&#8221;).<br \/>\nStage 5: Share these questions before the end of the lesson. You will then be given a different president to DEFEND. Prepare your responses over the weekend in preparation for the debate that will take place in a later lesson.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These resources are a great way to tie together a study of History of Americas. They specifically cover the period 1945-1980 but the approaches used are easily adaptable for other time periods and regions. Who was the best US President for the Americas? Classroom debate: Which President achieved the most for the USA and for&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/uncategorized\/classroom-debate-which-president-achieved-the-most-for-the-usa-and-for-latin-america\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[807,531,236,805,530,806,808],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pAq0G-12L","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4015"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4015"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4015\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4016,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4015\/revisions\/4016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}