Term Project Checklist
In this project, you will act as museum curators designing an exhibit that shows a specific event and other aspects of your assigned decade. The whole project will be 250 points of your grade (this is a lot). Here’s how it will break down:
Presentations (50 points total):
□ Length: 10-15 minutes, each member of the group speaks (10 points)
□ Content: no wrong information, research is obvious (20 points)
□ As museum curators, appearance counts. Dress up. (10 points)
□ Show relevance of each item in your presentation (10 points)
Primary Sources (40 points total):
□ Minimum of one photograph from the period (10 points)
□ Minimum of two documents from the period (20 points)
□ Minimum of one newspaper article from the period (10 points)
Present at least three of the following from your period (30 total points, 10 each):
□ APPROPRIATE song
□ An artifact (example: toys)
□ Art
□ Poetry
□ Model you created of a building, monument, etc.
Supplementary material (80 total points):
□ Map related to your topic (10 points)
□ Chart of a sociological or economic aspect of your period (10 points)
□ Handouts and an activity for your classmates to demonstrate they understood the material you presented (30 points)
□ Propaganda Poster: Design and create a poster that captures something important to the people of the period (10 points)
□ Video: create a commercial or music video you would have made had you lived during the period. Demonstrate knowledge of the period in this. Try to appear as people of the time did. Be sure the purpose and topic of your video CLEARLY relate to the decade. (20 points)
Independent work (50 points):
Each member of the group must write a 3 page paper INDIVIDUALLY. The paper must be typed in 12 point font. You must have TEN sources listed in a bibliography. Among the sources at least four must be books and none may be encyclopedias. Your primary sources can definitely count. Be sure to cite each source in your paper so that we know you used it.
In your paper: Explain why your era was important. Describe the multitude of things you have learned about your period and how you learned them. How does your decade affect us today? Finally, why do you think we chose this assignment?