English I To Kill a Mockingbird Project Assignment Sheet
Task:
You will work collaboratively with the other students that have the same topic as you to make an oral presentation of your findings, with audio or visual support, and you will prepare a note-taking handout for your audience to use.
Requirements:
4 - 6 min. presentation (powerpoint, prezi, other)
Everyone in the group has a speaking role
Cover the important facts of your topic and how does this help me to understand the setting of TKAM
1 audio AND 1 visual
5 slides, 5 bullets, around 5 words each bullet, 1 picture/link to audio/visual per slide; clip no longer than 90 seconds
Title Slide should have your title, and subtitle is your thesis statement: "_______________ (topic) is important to the 1930s (or 1960s) because _______________,"
2 sources:
One MackinVia database source and one print book source
6th slide = Works Cited page
1-pg note-taking handout/graphic organizer for your classmates
Choose a few questions to help the listeners identify relevant information
Time Frame:
2 in-class prep/planning days
1 presentation day
**If a member from your group is absent on the day of presentation, you will still present…they will present on their own the day they return**
Research Groups:
- Great Depression
- FDR’s presidency
- Plessy v. Ferguson
- Brown v. Board of Education
- Rosa Parks
- Scottsboro Trials
- Jim Crow laws
- Voting Act of 1965
- Montgomery Bus Boycott
- Civil Rights Movement
- Martin Luther King Jr Speech
- Music of 30s / Music of 60s
- LBJ’s The Great Society
