Essay Website: Women's Suffrage and Poster Project

You are to create a poster (8 1/2 by 11) dealing with the issue of women's suffrage at the turn of the century.  Your poster can either be for or against allowing women the right to vote.  The poster is due on Wednesday 1/5   Useful websites:

http://www.42explore2.com/suffrage.htm

http://www.zazzle.com/suffrage+posters


 Use the following website for information to use on your essay.

http://www2.scc.rutgers.edu/njh/womens_suffrage/

Essay for test on Wednesday, November 24th.

Your take home essay question for the unit exam is as follows:

"What three factors had the greatest influence on the Industrial movement in America in the late 1800s?"

Your essay should be 5 paragraphs, stapled, typed, and your corrected rough draft should be included.  It is due on Wednesday, November 24th.  Late essay will NOT be accepted.

Immigration Newsletter

Using Microsoft Publisher, you will create a newsletter that will be distributed to immigrants just entering New York City from Eastern Europe in 1895.  Choose the Publisher program from Microsoft Office, then choose "Publications for Print", then choose "Newsletters" for your template. Your newsletter will have four pages and contain the following information:

What they should expect from their processing at Ellis Island.  There is a good website at http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/immigration/tour/

A housing opportunity at 97 Orchard Street in NYC and tell the immigrants what kind of housing they can expect there.  There is a website dedicated to the building at http://www.tenement.org/

At least three different job opportunities in different fields and let them know the hours they are expected to work in those jobs, the pay, and any dangers they may face doing them.
http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/immigrating.htm


Your newsletter should also contain the following:

At least 3 photographs
At least one political cartoon
At least one advertisement from the time period

Remember that you are writing this newsletter as if you are living in 1895, so remember to use the present tense and not look like you are writing about the past.

Due the Wednesday before Thanksgiving Break.  There will be no late submissions so be sure to get it to me on time.

Period Six Blogsites

In the comments section below, post your blogsite address along with your name.  Your username should be first initial last name so I know who I am grading.  Your first posting should be the address of your Wizard of Oz glog.

Period Four Blogsites

In the comments section below, post your blogsite address along with your name.  Your username should be first initial last name so I know who I am grading.  Your first posting should be the address of your Wizard of Oz glog.

Period Two Blogsites

In the comments section below, post your blogsite address along with your name.  Your username should be first initial last name so I know who I am grading.  Your first posting should be the address of your Wizard of Oz glog.

Period One Blogsites

In the comments section below, post your blogsite address along with your name.  Your username should be first initial last name so I know who I am grading.  Your first posting should be the address of your Wizard of Oz glog.

Wizard of OZ

You are to create a glog site that explains the connection between the Wizard of OZ and the Populist Party. It must touch upon the following features.

The Gold Standard
Silver Coinage
William Jennings Bryan
The Eastern Worker
The Midwestern Farmer
William McKinley
The Banks
The Railroads
The Indians

Glog is due on Friday 11/5

We will be using our standard glog rubric.

Study Guide for Closing of the West

First of all: READ CHAPTER 5!!!

Make sure you know the Terms and Names that are listed at the head of each section.

Printing Glog

Right click on glog.
Choose print.

"Americanizing" the Natives

Glog assignment that touches upon the subject of "Americanizing" the Indians.

You can focus on one aspect of Americanization such as:
A boarding school (i.e. Carlisle School or Tulalip)
A battle (i.e. Little Big Horn or Wounded Knee)
A particular tribe (i.e. Apache or Lakota)
Government actions against Indians (i.e. Dawes Act or US v. Kagama)
Response to "Americanization" (i.e. Helen Hunt Jackson or The Meriam Report of 1928)

or you can talk about Americanization in general.

 We will be presenting on Friday, October 15th.  The rubric can be found at:  http://butlertech.wikispaces.com/file/view/Glogster+Rubric.pdf

Homestead Act Poster

You are to create a poster (8.5 inch by 11 inch) that entices African-Americans to leave the South to move to the town of Zion, Nebraska in the year 1878.  Remember to include the 5 w's in your poster (who, what, when, where, why).  An example of a similar poster can be found at this site: https://wikis.nyu.edu/ek6/modernamerica/uploads/Imperialism.ManifestDestiny/4.jpg

The rubric we will be using can be found at: http://www.flreads.org/contest/ReadingPosterRubric.pdf

Due Tuesday, 10/12

Review for First Test

Bill of Rights
7 Principles of the Constitution
Native Americans Before the Civil War
Women Before the Civil War
African Amaericans Before the Civil War
Dred Scott
John Brown
Civil War
Reconstruction

Reconstruction Glog Project

Visit the following websites for examples of student glogs:

http://edu.glogster.com/new/

http://soteach.edu.glogster.com/constitution-online-resources/

Then create a glog that teaches the story of American Reconstruction in the South.

Projects are due on Tuesday, September 28.

Rubric is as follows:

http://www.scribd.com/doc/18741566/Glog-Rubric

 

 

Civic Change Project

The civic change project is broken down into these three parts:
1. Choosing a topic
2. Responding to the decision
3. Reflecting on the decision and success or failure of implementation

Timeline is as follows:

Decision on topic: Tuesday 9/14

Research and implementation plan: Wednesday and Thursday

Reflection piece: Friday 9/17

Grading breakdown is as follows:
Group grade for decision and implementation 30%
Individual grade for reflection 70%

Reflection piece: Answer the following 3 questions in a full paragraph for each question on a typed paper.

1. What is the most difficult challenge in implementing our plan? 30 points

2. What is the greatest benefit to putting our plan in action? 30 points

3. How would I know if our plan was successful? 10 points

Homework

Practice Exam on Chapter 13 Mon 5/8

Background Essay Questions: Why did Japan Attack Pearl Harbor? Thu 5/5

Japanese Invasion of China on Wed 4/27

Finish document package on causes of WWII for Thu 4/28

Mein Kampf worksheet on Tuesday 4/26

Exam on Great Depression on Wednesday, 4/13

Glog Presentations due Thursday, 4/14