HS+Social+Studies

=World History=


 * Africa Poetry Project - Jeff Womack**

Create a two page poem based on an assigned region and the major conflicts going on within that region in Africa or the Middle East. Poems will have at least 7 footnotes that explain, in further detail, the context behind the phrases. Along with their oral presentation of the poem, students must setup and show a Google Docs presentation on the class DLP projector, linked to the Edmodo assignment, while they read their poem. This will create a visual and auditory story of events for students. Minimum requirement of 4 credible online sources and a submitted bibliography (must be approved by Mr. Womack and in MLA format before presentation day). Students used EasyBib or NoodleBib to create works cited pages.

Resources:
 * [|Google Docs]
 * [|www.edmodo.com]
 * [|www.easybib.com]
 * [|NoodleBib.com]
 * [] - Access to Edmodo public page

=American History=


 * Campaign Commercials - Brian McKenna**

The project is a terrific lesson, but was hampered this year by technology issues. The project was to create a presidential election commercial for one of the past elections in 1960, 1964, or 1968. We viewed presidential commercials at the Living Room Candidate. The site also hosts Admaker, a video production tool. Students were frustrated with the video production program offered at the website for our project. I felt some of my students did not have enough experience in this area and gave up too easily when a road block emerged. I also felt that some better explanation/direction could be provided. I only gave them one day to work on it in the library. I felt that was adequate and this did suffice for many. For the future I do need to test the website out to see if it has improved for even I had problems saving work at the site.

Project Guidelines:

Length Scenes
 * Working by yourself: 10 seconds 2
 * Working with 1 partner: 20 seconds 4
 * Working with 2 partners: 30 seconds 6

Candidates
 * 1960 Kennedy Nixon
 * 1964 Johnson Goldwater
 * 1968 Humphrey Nixon Wallace
 * 1972 McGovern Nixon

Resources
 * Use the Living Room Candidate Admaker at [] . You will need to register at the site. Make sure you and your partners write down your username and password.
 * To easily download videos that have a distinct web address (like at Youtube) copy and paste the URL into [].

Questions to be answered and turned in before your presentation: 
 * 1) What issue(s) will be the focus of your advertisement?
 * 2) <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">What are the strengths your candidate has on this issue(s)? (You will want to list facts, which can include support of previous bills regarding this issue.)
 * 3) <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Describe the criticisms the opposition is making of your candidate on this issue. Is there evidence to back any of the criticisms?
 * 4) <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Describe the criticisms your candidate is making of the opposition on this issue. Is there evidence to back any of the criticisms?
 * 5) <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">What emotions will you try to obtain from the viewer and what is the purpose of your commercial?
 * 6) <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">What form(s) of propaganda devices will you use in your advertisement? (You must use at least one.)

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