Presentations for Blocks E, F, and H

For those of you that are in blocks E, F, and H, your presentations will be on Friday of this week.  However, if you would like to present before then, you are welcome to come into my advisory period on Tuesday, Wednesday, or Thursday and do your presentations.  If you have any questions, please feel free to come see me. 

• You MUST bring your presentation on a USB drive.  I do not want to run into the problem of people having to sign into their email account or Prezi account.  It takes TOO much time and we don't have it.
• Also, in the past we have run into the problem of people forgetting their passwords.  
•  BE PREPARED!!!!

Presentation Video and PPT

As promised, please find the example of both the presentation and the powerpoint that I used.  As I created my own presentation, I realized that the three minute window was too short.  Therefore, you will have a five minute window to do your presentation.  You will also have a 30 second buffer, if you are running over the time limit.  However, if you go into this buffer time, you will be marked down.  As you can see with my video, I ran into the buffer time and would have lost points for this.  After five minutes and thirty seconds, you will be cut off.

Keep checking the blog of the weekend for when your class will be presenting.

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me via school email or posting a comment here on the blog.  Have a good weekend, go outside and play, eat lots of vegetables, and don't drink soda!

Journal and Presentation Rubrics

Please find below the rubrics for what I will be grading on and what is expected of you for both the journal and the presentation portion of this project. 

Look over both rubrics carefully and come to me with questions at the start of this week.  Remember, all five of your journal entries are due on Friday the 23rd. 

Missouri Compromise Review

Define the Missouri Compromise

Which states were involved?

Name the specific individuals involved in the compromise.

What is the Tallmadge Amendment?

What is a compromise?

What is the 36" 30' line?

What does secession mean?

Cat Tien Packing List

Research Tools - Good starting points

Use this site to help find key words, their meaning, and visuals from large bodies of text:

http://www.wordsift.com/

Below are some links that will be good starting points for research on your journals.   I will be adding to this post on a regular basis, please continue to check back to view additional sources.

Primary Source Documents for American History:

http://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/ourdocs/PrimDocsHome.html 

http://www.ourdocuments.gov/

Before, During, and After the Civil War Primary source documents:

http://valley.lib.virginia.edu/VoS/choosepart.html 

http://www.newsinhistory.com/feature/newspaper-articles-about-slavery-precursor-civil-war

Slave Narratives:

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/snhtml/snhome.html

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/slavery/teachers/primary-source.html

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/slavery/resources/online.html 

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/title.html

Homework for Blocks E,F, and H over the Weekend of 2/10-2/14

In class today we discussed and alayzed the question:

Is it possible to compromise on an ethical issue like slavery?

This is the essential question for this unit.  At first it may appear to be a simple question with a simple answer, but after a bit of discussion, and some challenging ideas, we came to realize that there is nothing simple about it.  Continue to think about this question over the weekend and come into class with some questions that you have for me about it. 

Also, choose a charcter from the list below that you would like to  keep a journal for.  Remember, you will be telling a story from this persons perspective about what life was like during the 1800's.  You will be required to find primary and secondary sources of information to include facts from history in order to more accurately tell this story.  Here are some things you will have to consider when developing this character:

Who is speaking?
Consider your character – what is/are their background, social status, language abilities, gender, feelings, desires?
To whom is the speaker speaking?
Is the character writing for themself or hoping someone else will read their journal?
Where is the speaker speaking?
Where is the specific locale, what country, what city, what place within the city?
When is the speaker speaking.
Consider the mood of the times – what sense of mood would need to be communicated
How is the speaker speaking?
Consider the way they speak – what is their pace, tone, pronunciation, volume?
Why is the speaker speaking?
What is the overall message they want to communicate to their audience?

Then commence the thinking about CHARACTERIZATION that will allow you to fully develop your character in the audience’s eyes by analyzing and describing the character you are trying to create:

What are their physical characteristics?

What are their social characteristics?

What are their psychological characteristics?

What are their moral characteristics?

What is the general nature of the character’s personality?

What is the character’s life history and habits?

What is the character’s attitude toward life?

How does the character behave?

How does the character’s behavior make us respond?

List of possible characters (if you have a character in mind that is not on this list, please come see me):

Slave

Slave owner

Emancipated Slave

Child Slave

Run Away Slave

Abolitionist

Secessionist

Child of a Slave owner

Northern Politician 

Southern Politician

Plantation Owner

Factory Owner

Factory Worker

Christian Pastor

Abolitionist Newspaper Editor

Union Solider

Confederate Solider