Learning Objectives
Through the activities and resources of this lesson, students will
- IDENTIFY key figures and events relating to Watergate and EXPLAIN their significance
- ANALYZE and EXPLAIN the impact of Watergate on journalism history
- DEFEND the role of journalism to pursue these types of stories and the ethics behind them
- CREATE an instructional product (timeline) to share your findings with the group
Vocabulary
- Watergate
- Deep Throat
- President Nixon
- Pentagon Papers
- DNC
- John Mitchell
- Washington Post
- G. Gordon Liddy
- James W. McCord
- H.R. Haldeman
- John Ehrlichman
- Saturday Night Massacre
- Bob Woodward
- Carl Berstein
- Ben Bradlee