Presentation Rubric

• Content - 40%
• Accurate - 15%
• factual
• no personal opinions
• debated points presented in a balanced way
• Informative - 10%
• connects to class discussions
• adds to class discussions
• Thorough - 15%
• detailed information
• no trivial information
• Presentation - 40%
• Organization - 10%
• Structure
• chronological
• modular
• physical
• spatial
• problem/solution
• issues/action
• case study
• compare/contrast
• matrix
• Transitions
• Voice - 5%
• loud enough for everyone to hear
• moderate rate of speech (not too fast)
• Slides - 5%
• few ideas (ideally one) per slide
• minimal text
• at least 20 slides (not including title slide and works cited)
• Images - 5%
• quantity
• quality (appealing; high resolution)
• appropriateness
• citation as footnote on individual slide or all image citations on one slide at the end
• Color Scheme, Text Animations, Slide Transitions, and Fonts - 5%
• appealing
• "less is more" when it comes to animations and slide transitions
• appropriate to content/structure
• Audience Interaction - 5%
• asking questions
• fielding questions
• handouts
• participation
• Time - 5%
• between 7-10 minutes
• Sources - 10%
• Credibility - 4%
• Quantity (at least three in addition to your textbook) - 4%
• MLA Formatting - 2%
• Effort - 10%
• Creativity - 5%
• Planning - 5%

Project: World War II - Topics

Michelle: Holocaust Survivors
Raoul: Resistance Movements
Silvia: US Women
Fred: Technological Advancements
Matthieu: Hiroshima & Nagasaki
Gabe: Hitler, 1938-1945
Maya: Concentration Camps
Thad: Russia, 1938-1945
Julia: Treatment of Jews before/during WWII
Kevin: Submarine Warfare
Taylor: General Douglas MacArthur

Your first assignment is to find three credible sources (in addition to your textbook), due Monday, 18 March.

Project: World War II

Topics: Invasion of Normandy (D-Day, June 6, 1944), Bombing of Pearl Harbor (Dec. 7, 1941), Concentration Camps (Choose two or three), Hiroshima and Nagasaki (Atomic bombs dropped here), Italy ’s Involvement in WWII, Benito Mussolini (Italy’s Dictator during WWII), Russia (The Soviet Union) 1938-1945, North Africa and WWII, Japanese Internment in the USA, WWII Prisoners of War, Hitler: 1938-1945, WWII Nazi Medical Experimentation, President Franklin D. Roosevelt during WWII, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill during WWII, The Battle of the Bulge, Nazism and WWII, Treatment of the Jews before/during WWII, WWII Resistance Movements, Holocaust Survivors (the stories of at least two), WWII War Crimes Trials, Submarine Warfare, General Douglas MacArthur, US Women, The War in the Pacific

Choose a topic from the list above. Your presentation is due on Friday, 22 March Monday, 25 March.

Updated: Note the new due date.

Project: Civil War - Topics

Mirembe: New Orleans & Robert E. Lee
Mike: Gettysburg & Harriet Tubman
Kwesi: Antietam & Ulysses S. Grant
Ramona: Chancellorsville & Jefferson Davis
Kevin: Shiloh & "Stonewall" Jackson

Project: Civil War

Topics

• Battles
• Antietam, Gettysburg, Chancellorsville, Fredericksburg, The Wilderness, Richmond, Mechanicsburg, Murfreesboro, New Orleans, Vicksburg, Shiloh and Morgan's Raid
• People
• Grant, Lee, McClellan, Sojourner Truth, Harriet Tubman, Sheridan, Sherman, Stonewall Jackson, Clara Barton, Lincoln, Jefferson Davis, John Brown

Pick one battle and one person. You will make two presentations, one on each of your choices. Your presentation on a person is due next Friday, 22 March, and your presentation on a battle is due on Wednesday, 27 March.

I will post a rubric on how you will be assessed. For now, please find three credible sources in addition to your textbook, due on Monday, 18 March.

Possible Sources

• PBS: List of Online Resources

11-2 Essay Questions

• Describe the progress of war in the West.
• Compare the eastern campaigns to those in the West.

Research: Israel and Palestine

Questions

1. Who is involved in this conflict?
2. What region is at the heart of the conflict? Describe the claim that both groups have on this region.
3. What is Israel? When was it founded and by whom?
4. What is the Zionist Movement?
5. Describe the role of the U.S. in the establishment of Israel, a Jewish state.
6. How did the Holocaust affect the formation of a Jewish homeland?
7. What is the PLO? Whom does it represent?
8. Which nations are opposed to a Jewish state?
9. What was the intifada? Who was involved and what caused it?
10. What caused the rise of militant Islam? What is its link to modern terrorism? What is Hamas?

Use credible sources to answer the questions above. Possibilities include:

• http://www.pbs.org/newshour/indepth_coverage/middle_east/conflict/index.html
• http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/special_reports/middle_east_crisis/
• http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/oslo/etc/cron.html