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