Lessons Listing | Goals & Evaluation | Step One - Two - Three | Published Works

Step 1:  Form teams of three and agree on one of the following areas to research for an electronic chapter book. (4 days)

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    Lessons Listing | Goals & Evaluation | Step One - Two - Three | Published Works

    Step 1:  Form teams of three and agree on one of the following areas to research for an electronic chapter book. (4 days)

    1. Using all components, each teammember will take responsibility for one of the three components: A, B, C
      Components within an Area
      1. Overview of selected area
      2. Influence/Impact of an American
      3. Influence/Impact of another American
    Areas (Use Yahoo categories for research)
    • Westward Expansion
      Suggested topics
      Evolution of 1 nation: 1 continent
      Railroads
      Homestead Act of 1850
    • Imigration
      Suggested topics
      Melting Pot: Americanization vs. cultural identity
      Fall and Rise of ______ (ethnic group)
      Ellis Island: Why & Conditions they came
      Another related listing of links
    • Early Civil Rights
      Suggested topics
      Women's Suffrage
      -Seneca Falls to the 19th Amendment
      -Economic freedom vs. suffrage
      Black Civil Rights
      -Separate but equal
      -Evolution of the NAACP
      -Evolution of Nation of Islam
      -Jim Crow Laws
    		 Americans of Westward Expansion
    Samuel Morse, Alexander Bell, Leland Stanford, George Westinghouse (air breakes), Granville Woods (telegraph), Chief Joseph, Chief Sitting Bull, Fredrick Jackson Turner

    Americans of Imigration
    Who was involved in the Ellis Island system?
    Who was involved with the Statue of Liberty?

    Americans of Civil Rights
    Lucrecia Mott, Susan Anthony, Sojourner Truth, Jane Addams, or choose from a list at 75 Suffragists or Women Studies (Read biography of Victoria Woodhull)

    African Americans
    WB Debois, Malcom X, Booker T. Washington, M. L. King, Fredrick Douglass

    Additional Links: African American Studies, Women Studies, Other People, 19th Century People, Native Americans, History Archives
    1. Each team member composes three pages of notes, including at least one website and one book (non-encyclopedia).
      -Make copies for all teammates with MLA citation of books and websites.
      -Identify a website to email for additional information.
    1. Minimum sources for team Anotated Bibliography - 3 books and 3 internet sites
      -include one primary source and one biography or autobiography