On March 19-20, students will select the groups they will be working in and the topic for the project.
I need each group to post their topic and their group members in this forum. Please start post with grade and period. (Such as Grade 8, period 5)
8th Grade: "Despite All Odds" biography of a historical person. You are encouraged to select a person who was a member of a marginalized group, such as African American or women who led a movement or made a contribution to America from 1492 to 1920. These are the people who sought to expand the freedom of our country to more people---to include their people to the possibility to be part of the American dream.
Possible people to profile: Poet Phyllis Wheatley (African American woman poet of Revolutionary era), Benjamin Banaeker (African American scientist and almanac writer), Abolitionists Sojourner Truth and Frederick Douglass, conductor of the Underground Railroad Harriett Tubman, Scientist George Washington Carver, Women's Rights advocates Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, woman poet Emily Dickinson, writer Harriet Beecher Stowe. Transcendentalist writers such as Henry David Thoreau and Walt Whitman (who is believed to have been gay) also took on the establishment of their day.
7th Grade: Video to examine any part of Chapter 9 on the ancient Americas, such as: Land Bridge THEORY of Beringia, Olmec, Toltec, Aztec, Maya, Moche or Inca, Voyage of Christopher Columbus, Balboa, Hernan Cortez, Francisco Pizarro, conquest of the Aztec, conqqest of the Inca, or a focused look at particular part of an area such as Mayan astronomy and calendars or human sacrifice or the Mayan ballgame.
For Both Grades
Plan the video using the Documentary Story Board Sheet. Choose 10-15 images and put in a folder. Plan the narration. Create titles, choose appropriate music and record narration.
For iMacs: Use iMovie
For eMacs (old classroom Apple computers) make powerpoint and export to iMovie
For PC's: Use Photo Story 3 and then edit further in Window Movie Maker
