American Vocabulary - Investigating Words of Meaning

As the new age of warfare is shaped by the world around us, it becomes far too easy for our world to become detached from the experiences of soldiers occurring overseas.  This lesson seeks to help students create connections with “over there” through word association: terms they have heard and perhaps used over the course of their life but might be further explored through a combination of self-reflection and  exposure to unique perspectives of those who have experienced twenty-first century combat first hand.