The Anticipation Guide
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The Anticipation Guide provides students with preliminary information
about an upcoming topic, some of which is true. Main ideas of the
upcoming lesson are listed. Then, a mixture of true and false statements as well
as some nonessential, but true statements about details pertaining to each of
the main ideas are listed on the graphic. Students analyze the information
and, using their background knowledge about the topic, code each of the details
on the graphic as either true and essential to know(TE) true, but trivia(Tt) thus
not essential to know, or false (F).
Step 1: Provide pairs or teams of students are given copies of the completed
Anticipation Guide depicting topic, main ideas, and assorted true and
false statements listed as details.
JFK & the Cuban Missile Crisis
is about a political crisis that nearly led to nuclear war with USSR
Castro comes to power
in Cuba
Bay of Pigs Invasion
The existing government was
overthrown by Castro's
followers because it was so
unfair to the poor man.
The Bay of Pigs was a CIA (USA)
planned invasion of Cuba
by Cuban exiles living in the US.
After taking over the
government, Castro turned to the
US for support, but didn't get it.
JFK strongly supported the
invasion & sent the US Air
Force to back it up.
When Castro took over, US
owned businesses were
nationalized.
During the evening of the invasion,
JFK entertained dinner guests in the
White House.
One of Castro's favorite things
is to smoke good Cuban cigars.
20,000 of Castro's troops
overwhelmingly beat the 1,400
Cuban (US) exiles.
Castro planned on making Cuba
communist from the beginning of
his revolution.
Castro discouraged USSR from
sending over weapons to repel
future US invasions.
Nuclear "face-off" with
USSR
The US wanted Cuba as a state,
but so did USSR, so they almost
went to war.
The US spy plane that spotted the
missile sites in Cuba could fly higher
than any plane.
JFK told USSR to remove nuclear
missiles or US would invade Cuba.
JFK blockaded Cuba to prevent
more USSR ships & supplies from
arriving.
USSR agreed to remove missiles,
and US agreed never to invade
Cuba.
USSR & Castro may have planned
the whole thing to get JFK to
promise not to invade.
Big Idea: Because Cuba is so close to the US, JFK should have tried to make it a state.
Step 2: Ask students to analyze each statement using only their personal
background knowledge and guess whether the statement is true,
essential information, false information, or true, but trivia (nonessential).
In light pencil, they code their guesses for each detail. If students
indicate that they have no idea whatsoever, encourage them to guess
and to note one of the three codes.
JFK & the Cuban Missile Crisis
is about a political crisis that nearly led to nuclear war with USSR
Castro comes to power
in Cuba
Bay of Pigs Invasion
The existing government was
overthrown by Castro's
followers because it was so
unfair to the poor man.
The Bay of Pigs was a CIA (USA)
planned invasion of Cuba
by Cuban exiles living in the US.
After taking over the
government, Castro turned to the
US for support, but didn't get it.
JFK strongly supported the
invasion & sent the US Air
Force to back it up.
When Castro took over, US
owned businesses were
nationalized.
During the evening of the invasion,
JFK entertained dinner guests in the
White House.
One of Castro's favorite things
is to smoke good Cuban cigars.
20,000 of Castro's troops
overwhelmingly beat the 1,400
Cuban (US) exiles.
Castro planned on making Cuba
communist from the beginning of
his revolution.
Castro discouraged USSR from
sending over weapons to repel
future US invasions.
Nuclear "face-off" with
USSR
The US wanted Cuba as a state,
but so did USSR, so they almost
went to war.
The US spy plane that spotted the
missile sites in Cuba could fly higher
than any plane.
JFK told USSR to remove nuclear
missiles or US would invade Cuba.
JFK blockaded Cuba to prevent
more USSR ships & supplies from
arriving.
USSR agreed to remove missiles,
and US agreed never to invade
Cuba.
USSR & Castro may have planned
the whole thing to get JFK to
promise not to invade.
Big Idea: Because Cuba is so close to the US, JFK should have tried to make it a state.
Step 3: Have students update their codes for each item listed on the
Anticipation Guide. After specific aspects of the lesson have been
addressed during class as the content is explored, cue students
to revisit their Anticipation Guide and review the original codes
they had indicated for a specific item. Encourage them to change their
response as appropriate. For example, if the statement was true, and
essential, but they originally recorded it as false, have them change their
answer.
A particularly useful point of discussion that periodically occurs is
debating whether a true fact represented a true essential item of
information, or a true, but trivial item. These can be very useful debates
because it helps students learn to evaluate information and become
better note takers.
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