You will use world history chronologies,
timelines, and subject areas of the library to determine personalities
or events you feel were most
important in shaping the 1900’s. You will select a person or event
that must be approved by me for your research, culminating in a concise paper
and digitized poster that makes the case for that person or event to be one
of the most important of his/her/its time, helping define what America is
today. The paper and poster will be built around a central thesis in which
you will clearly articulate the long-term effects of your subject on United
States society. While some general background information will be necessary,
the bulk of your facts and framework should be in support of this thesis.
Your research will be presented to class with your poster acting as a visual
aid.
Specifically, your argument should clearly show the effects on society as
a whole. Thus, I urge you to pick a subject that can carry weight beyond
the basic parameters of its field. For example, the introduction of the cross-over
dribble would not seem to be able to carry a paper on its own merit, but
something or someone that establishes a cross-over between genres, movements,
or communities, altering the cultural landscape towards what it has become
today, could.
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In the 20th Century folder in
curricular projects, create a folder with your name to hold your work.
IN this folder sill be saved your research paper, your facts, a Dreamweaver
page to
post your finished poster, an icon folder to hold your
finished
poster as a gif
file, a raw folder to hold all your downloaded images
and your poster in png format.
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Paper must be 4-6 typed, double-spaced pages; please
use
12-point Times or Times New Roman font.
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Please write your name,
date, and “History 8D” in the
top left corner of your first page (only), and then center
your title (and
subtitle?) below that.
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Please staple your paper in the top
left corner.
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Please include an annotated bibliography on your last page,
where you will write a brief description of each source
that you used.
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This page
should be separate from the rest of the paper, and
have “Annotated
Bibliography” written
and centered on the top of the page. We will use Noodletools
for constructing the bibliography.
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Please use internal citations,
where you document the page and the source within your
paper. We will also use Noodletools
to do this.
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Please proofread your paper closely.
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Your poster will contain at least five
images with text to support the key points of your poster.
Clearly-stated thesis statement in the opening
paragraph.
Specific facts that support this position (correctly cited).
Original ideas.
Clean writing mechanics (grammar, spelling, etc): this is a formal paper and
should look and read like one.
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To acquaint you with the variety of materials available
to do research. The emphasis will be on keeping a tight focus on the type
of information needed.
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To encourage minimal random internet searches in favor of the databases and
academic sites.
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To help you develop your search, examination, organization, and asking skills
by focusing on answering how, what, where and when questions.
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To prepare yourself for the next phase of evaluative and deliberative research
in the 9th grade.
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To help you develop skills in
using Fireworks such as, importing text, formatting and creating fancy
text, saving and importing images, masking an image, etc.
