APUSH-DEcades Project
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  • Decades
    • 1960's
    • 1970's
    • 1980's
    • 1990's
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The Product: 

Your group will submit the final products altogether in ONE Google
folder with all individual assignments inside (labeled with title and student names who completed them).
 
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SHARED folder (NOT a shared drive) name example: 6th hour 60's

1)  A webquest OR hyperdoc:
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  • Shows distinct themes or movements during this period that has interactive elements (links, videos, etc.) that have questions the class must answer.
  • This interactive assignment can include activities, notes, fill in the blanks, written sections, but needs to have a plethora of elements about the decade.
                      
              *Examples of templates you can use HYPERDOC, WEBQUEST


       Ideas to include in this interactive assignment: 
  • Maps/questions
  • Chart/graph/questions 
  • Videos (authentic footage) *This can include, but should not be limited to "The Best of," Crash Course or historical videos
  • Pictures/questions
  • Music, movies, fashion, popular culture that help exemplify the "feeling" of decade
  • This assignment should include elements from each of the following categories:
  • Social-lifestyles, trends, religious issues, education etc. American Diversity, Identity, Reform (women’s rights, public health, etc.)
  • Economic- business, inventions, price of good (gas, food), Environment, Globalization
  • Political-domestic and foreign policy issues​

2)  A TIMELINE activity (or several) that helps students learn the of the events for your decade- 
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  • You will use wordwall.net to create any of the following types of timeline practice assignments that will be assigned to the class
    • Use the game: Rank Order to create
    • wordwall.net     username:nun005653     password: Trinity1  
    • Instructional video on how to use wordwall.net
    • must include (but doesn't need to be limited to) all of the elements on the "decades" page you have been assigned
    • the file should be titled your decade and placed in the Wordwall.net folder for your class period
    • share this assignment (copy and paste the shareable link on a google doc to go in your shared drive (doc titled "timeline" with members initials)

3)  2 separate primary source readings that can be used for seminar
      
  • Format them to fit no more than 2 PAGES-cut and paste is ok-as long as it make sense. (Small margins, font 12)
  • needs to cover 2 separate controversial events that occurred from your decade (should be broad topics)
                  *Examples: presidential speech, newspaper article, letter, proclamation, etc.  
  • See Nunn for help on this (she needs to sign off on these)
  • Included with the reading 10 questions that you write (don't have to answer) that help the reading focus on the main issues of the document 
  • the questions need to be level two and three questions-no level ones! 
                         *Levels of questioning refresher

4) A. Create a GROUPING activity that highlights the social, economic and political elements of your decade. 
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  • 30 identifications/evidence/events 
    • Use the game: Group Sort or Categorize to create
    • wordwall.net     username:nun005653     password: Trinity1  
    • Instructional video on how to use wordwall.net​

             
        B. Create a VOCAB quiz on wordwall.net using "match up" or "unscramble" from the DECADES page

  • 30 identifications/evidence/events 
    • Use the game: Match Up or Unscramble to create
    • wordwall.net     username:nun005653     password: Trinity1  
    • Instructional video on how to use wordwall.net

*****For BOTH ASSIGNMENTS:
  • the file should be titled your decade and placed in the Wordwall.net folder for your class period
  • share this assignment (copy and paste the shareable link on a google doc to go in your shared drive (doc titled "timeline" with members initials)





5) A collection of 6 different primary source documents from this decade that fit with your group's vision of what you will teach
                
  • There should be a variety of different types of docs (social, economic, political/foreign domestic) that might be political cartoons, presidential declarations, letters, pictures, etc. 
  • They need to take the format of a DBQ document  from the APUSH test
  • These will be submitted on Google Slides (one doc per slide) with an analysis of HIPP (Historical Context, Intended Audience, Purpose, Point of View) on each slide.
    • Context (what is happening during this time period -big picture)
    • Purpose (why is this person saying what they are saying? What are they trying to accomplish or convince people of?)
    • Audience (who is this doc written for or written to? Why is that significance? 
    • Point of View (why are they saying what they are saying? Is it manipulation? Sarcasm? Sending a message?)
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all files are due in group folder by 3:30pm Thursday april 1st. 

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