Ms. Koegel - Final Project

Select a topic you would like to research and sign up.  These will be given on a first come first serve basis. Topics may be switched depending upon availability.

Gene Doping in Sports:  The Science and Ethics of Genetically Modified Athlete
The Battle to Legalize Euthanasia
The Stem Cell Divide: should stem research be encouraged?
Hoarding
Pollution & Waste Management
Body Piercing and Tattoos-hoe far is too far?
Plastic Surgery-cosmetic or reconstructive-who should pay
Welfare Reform
Illnesses/diseases
Superstitions of different cultures
Global Warming-myth or reality?
Prison Systems/Capital Punishment
Gun control debate
Teen Pregnancy
Aegism

Find two or more articles that discuss the issue and write a one page summary of the information

Create a visual that clearly relates to the material you will be teaching. This may take the form of the following:

• 10 slide PowerPoint or Smartboard presentation that uses graphics and facts
• short reading or musical piece based on the topic
• a media clip that has been approved by me
• an interactive activity that will take 15 minutes of class time (game)

Create a worsheet for the class to be used to determine if they have learned the points you wished them to understand.  This may be a journal question, a multiple choice quiz, a group assignment or anything creative to get the students involved and demostrate they have understood the material.  You will collect and grade and evaluate them.

Prepare 2 key discussion questions so that the lesson has a clear beginning and end.  You will be conducting your discussion based on these points

Use the following sources to find information on your topic:

Opposing Viewpoints - Critical Thinking

Opposing Viewpoints in Context

CDC

Senior English Project

The purpose of this project is to enable students to effect change in our community

You are responsible for the following components:

A proposal for the research paper

A 3-5 page research paper that examines an issue and proposes a solution

A 5-7 minute multi-media presentation 

The following sources can be used to obtain information for your topic:

Opposing Viewpoints in Context

Opposing Viewpoints Critical Thinking

Gale Student Resources in Context

World War II Project

Requirements:

Title Page- 10pts- Must include a thesis, table of contents, and a description of each group member’s responsibilities and slides.

PowerPoint – 10pts- must be submitted one day prior to your presentation, must include work cited page, six slides per page

15 to 20 minute presentation – 80pts- include visuals such as graphs, photographs, and video clips (video clips should be no longer than 3 minutes).  Make sure you can discuss each slide without having to read word for word off the slide.

Avoid overloading the slides with text. 

Project Topics and their due dates:

Due Wednesday 4/24 – Propaganda (US vs. Nazi), Effects of World War II on African Americans

Due Thursday 4/25- Effects of World War II on Women, Changes in Family Life

Due Friday 4/26 – America’s Response to the Holocaust, Japanese Internment Camps

Other Possible Topics:

Japanese Internment Camps in Canada

Latin America’s Response to the Holocaust (pick a specific country)

United States and Latin American Relations during WWII

Possible Research Sources:

German Propoganda Guide

BBC Guide to World War II

WWII Europe Timeline

Holocaust Memorial Center

D-Day American Experience

Japanese Internment Camps

United States Response to Holocaust

Women at work

African Americans & WWII

Gale Student Resource Center (database)

US History (database)

War & Terrorism Collection (database)

Modern Genocide Activity

·     1)  Conduct research to find documents from the United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide.  Define Genocide in your own words.
      What is Genocide?

UN Convention

2)Conduct research to find information on the genocides in Armenia, Bosnia, Cambodia, and Darfur, Sudan.  Complete the graphic organizer with the information you find.

The following links contain information on all the genocides listed above

Genocide is more than the Holocaust:

7 Historical Incidents of Genocide

Student Resources in Context this is a database - you can access information similar to using a search engine
Experiment with word searches - try "genocide and Darfur" or "Armenian Genocide" Think of different keyword searches that you can use.  Good current information given if you use "genocide" as a search.

United Human Rights Council

United States Holocaust Museum - Genocide Page - current information on conflicts

Oprah Winfrey - Real life accounts of Modern Genocide

United States Holocaust Museum - Genocide History (does not include Armenia)
Includes information regarding Raphael Lempkin

ABC CLIO - GENOCIDE PAGE ***** This is a great source!!!  Click on genocide tab on top of page to locate the event you are researching **************
This is a database - you may need to use the following username and password:  
GenocideAdmin
solutions

The following sources are separated by the events they are about.  Most of the videos are first hand accounts

Armenian Genocide

Armenian Genocide - Facts

Armenian Survivor Story - video

Armenian Genocide - First Hand Account

Turkish Soldier - First hand account of Armenian Genocide

Cambodia - The Killing Fields

Cambodia

Cambodian Survivor - Genocide Account

Cambodian Survivor - Short Video


Darfur

Genocide in Darfur - Houston Holocaust Museum

Darfur Genocide - National Geographic Video

Eyewitness Account to Darfur/Brief History of Conflict

Former Marine Gives Eyewitness Account of Darfur

Bosnia

Bosnia

Bosnia Genocide - BBC News includes timeline of events

The History Place - account of Bosnian Genocide

Bosnia - answers Who, What, Where, Why

Bosnia CBS - Video

Bosnia - eyewitness video

3)Conduct research to find at least two appropriate eyewitness accounts from atrocities in Armenia, Bosnia, Cambodia or Darfur, Sudan.  Take notes on the graphic organizer.  As you take notes, keep in mind that this information will be used for Part 4. 

4)Write an analytical paragraph in which you identify the similarities and/or differences of the accounts, using specific details from the eyewitness accounts. You should also consider using appropriate information from your chart in part 2.

Punkin Chunkin Lesson

Use the following links to build your catapult or trebuchet

Trebuchet Plans

Catapult Plans

Also you can use the following database and type in "Trebuchet" or "Catapult" as a search


Student Resources

For more information on the history of medieval weaponry:


History of Medieval Weapons

All The Broken Pieces - Introduction to Vietnam War

You will be reading All the broken pieces by Ann Burg
This book is a historical fiction novel about the Vietnam War

Use the following resources to answer the research questions:

Video- Vietnam War History

History of the Vietnam War

What was the cause of the Vietnam War?
What was The Draft?
Why did American's oppose the Vietnam War?
How were soldier's treated when they returned home?


Babylift- Video


Operation Babylift - Overview

Vietnanm Babylift Legacy Page

PBS: Babylift

What was Operation Babylift?

Goodnight Saigon

Video: Vietnam Wall

After watching this video please write about the significance of this memorial. 

UnKnown Soldier - John Hulme