Lopez - Progressive Era Glogs

The time period after the Civil War and Reconstruction was a time of great change in the United States. One way in which issues in American Society are demonstrated is visually through posters, photographs and political cartoons.

For this project, you must:

1. Find at least 3 images from the time period 1870 – 1920
2. Include the date, any title or caption and a description for each image
3. Hyperlink the picture sources to the pictures

Some topics from this time period you might wish to consider are:

Industrialization
Immigration
Working Conditions
Organized Labor – Unions
Living Conditions
Corruption in Government
Treatment of Native Americans
Westward Expansion

Influential people from the time period include:

Jacob Riis – a photographer who captured images of life in New York City
Thomas Nast – a political cartoonist
Upton Sinclair – an author who wrote The Jungle about the conditions of a meat packing factory.

We will be using Glogster to complete this assignment. Glogster is an online tool that lets you create posters online.

http://www.glogster.com

Here is a great resource for images: 19th & 20th Century Labor Prints

Example Glogs:
http://andy327.glogster.com/Andyusprogressivism/
http://whenindoubt.glogster.com/Progressive-Era/
http://nick346.glogster.com/History-Project-Glog/
http://spradlinh.glogster.com/progressive-reformers/

Humanities - Independent Assignment

Role – movie/book critic

Audience – blog-reading high school students

Format – movie/review review

Task – to critique one movie and one book

Due Date: April 9, 2010


Part I: You are a movie critic. Your editor asked you to review a film that high school students could watch to deepen their understanding of US History. Research movies about 18th or 19th Century (1700s or 1800s) life in the United States. Watch your selected movie. Write a movie review in which you:
Paragraph 1 – summarize the movie
Paragraph 2 – critique the movie
Paragraph 3 – evaluate the use of the movie as part of a US History course
Post your movie review to the ITC Library blog via the comment link below. Mrs. LeFever will demonstrate how to correctly post to the blog.

Internet Movie Database
Movie Review Query Engine
Roger Ebert
Syracuse Post-Standard
Onondaga County Public Library Catalog

Part II: You are a book critic. Your editor asked you to review a book that high school students could read to deepen their understanding of US History. Research books about life in the United States during the 18th or 19th Centuries (1700s or 1800s). Read your selected book. Write a book review in which you:
Paragraph 1 – summarize the movie
Paragraph 2 – critique the movie
Paragraph 3 – evaluate the use of the movie as part of a US History course.
Post your book review to the ITC Library blog via the comment link below. Mrs. LeFever will demonstrate how to correctly post to the blog.

SCSD Catalog (includes reviews)
Onondaga County Public Library Catalog
New York Times Reviews
Historical Fiction Blog
PLCMC
School Library Journal Reviews
Flamingnet Reviews

**Note: It is a good idea to type your movie/book reviews in word document to make use of the spelling & grammar review tool before posting. Then all you will need to do is copy and paste your reviews to post them to the blog. This also avoids any unnecessary loss of your work if there is a technical difficulty while you are posting to the blog.

Each review posting should include:
1. Title of the movie/book all in CAPS
2. List the director/author
3. Three paragraph review per the directions
4. Correct grammar, spelling, punctuation and sentence structure. No “texting” language


Grading Criteria:

Writing Mechanics
Content/thoroughness
Creativity/authenticity in embracing RAFT format
Media Literacy (accessed books/movies; correctly posted review)

Wallace - InvestWrite Project

Prizes
1st Place - 3 Day/2 Night Trip to New York City and a "Wall Street Experience"
2nd Place - Mini Notebook Computer
3rd Place - Mini Notebook Computer
4th Place - $25 Gift Card

Background
Imagine MTV is starting a new program about financial literacy and discovers you have become a skilled investor after participating in The Stock Market Game program at school. Pretend they offered you a summer internship to write and produce a weekly financial program. The time slot they’ve given you allows you to read your ideas and comments, of 700 words or less, on camera. Your program can deal with current domestic and international events, such as changes in consumer spending, interest rates, the Federal Reserve, prices of oil and other resources, government regulation, jobs, the housing market, congressional legislation, economic recovery funding or any other events you think can affect the stock market.

Project Description

Project Resources

Go Ask Alice

We are bringing Alice and her diary into the 21st Century and blogging about it! Below, I have linked an important section of the novel to which you will respond. You will be interacting personally with the text as well as with your classmates. Read all of the directions below and the excerpt carefully before clicking on the "comments" link at the bottom of the post. Then, you will need to follow the posting directions to POST 4 TIMES. If you have questions, please ask BEFORE you make a mistake!

Go Ask Alice Excerpt

Part A:

You will complete both of these choices, you can decide which you would like to do first. You will be evaluated on your ability to discuss the novel in a productive and interesting manner.

1) You will respond to Alice's diary entry as if it were a letter to you and you are her pen pal. Write back to her and offer her your advice, criticism, encouragement, and friendship.

2) You will personally respond to Alice's diary entry in any way that you wish. Some prompts for your response might include:

This connects to my life because…

I wonder about…

I’m confused because…

I want to remember this because…

This is important because…

This is interesting because…

Part B:

For each time we blog in class you are to respond to at least two other classmates posts. These responses should be thoughtful and constructive. They should not say anything negative or anything that is not relevant to the text. Once again you will be evaluated on your ability to discuss and share your thoughts on the book.

Rubric:

50 points--CREATIVITY: Make sure that your responses are creative, thoughtful, and that you put a lot of time and effort into forming your blog posts. You will receive full credit if you put forth your full effort to formulate a unique and worthwhile post.

30 points--COMPREHENSION: Make sure that your blog posts reflect your understanding of the book. They should be creative, yet based off of what you get from your reading. You will receive full points if your posts reflect that you understand and are thinking about the novel.

10 points--APPEARANCE: Make sure your blog posts look wonderful and are something that you are proud to have published on the website. Write in full paragraphs and self-edit carefully. Put forth your best work.

10 points--RESPECT: Make sure you respond to your classmates with respect and care. Read their blog posts and respond in a thoughtful manner that shows you read what they wrote and are taking what they say into consideration. Converse respectfully with your classmates.

Teen Book Festival Projects

As we prepare to meet over 25 authors at the Greater Rochester Teen Book Festival on May 15, 2010 at Nazareth College, your job is to use a 21st Century Technology to create a product representing one or more of the Festival authors and/or books. You will be able to work alone, with a partner or in a small group, but you must have a unique project focus (book or author). When we are done, we will be posting your projects for all to see, so do your personal best!!

Teen Book Festival Web Site

We will share some sample projects during book club. The sky is the limit! Be creative with books and 21st Century technology!

Project Rubric

WEB 2.0 TOOLS

1. Voicethread- With Voicethread you can create a slide show and record your voice

EXAMPLE: William Shakespeare


2. Animoto- With Animoto you create music videos using images, pictures and
videos.

EXAMPLE: Matt de La Pena

3. Glogster- With Glogster you create an online poster

EXAMPLE: Holocaust


4. Wikispaces- With Wikispaces you create a Web page

EXAMPLE: Marissa Doyle


5. Edublogs- With Edublogs you can create blogs

EXAMPLE: Movie Blog


6. Facebook- With Facebook you can create a person profile or book profile

7. Twitter- With Twitter you can write up to 140 characters, many business use twitter to advertise their products

8. Google- With Google you can use Google docs and create a document or presentation and with Google sites you can make a website.

EXAMPLE: Book Reviews


9. Ning- With Ning you can create your own social network

EXAMPLE: James Patterson

10. Proboards- With Proboards you can create your own forum

EXAMPLE: For the Love of Books

More possibilities:
Video, Pod/Vodcast, Photo Story, Website, PowerPoint, Survey Monkey, Google Tools, Wordle


You are not limited to these Web 2.0 tools! There are many others to choose from so feel free to pick what would be best for you. Mrs. LeFever and I will be here to help you as you create your digital book advertisements!

Here is an example of a Photo Story for Laurie Halse Anderson

Teen Book Festival Digital Ad Rubric
Must be based on at least one Teen Book Festival author and/or book.
For the author/book listing go to: http://www.tbflive.org/?pg=AuthorBio

Must use at least one digital tool (voicethread, Glogster, blogs, etc). For tools, go to ITC Library Blog:
http://libraryitc.blogspot.com/

Student Projects:

April's Glog