USA History / Mr.Saindon
Monday, April 15
to
Friday, April 19
Essential Question
What events and/or decisions caused conflict within United States that to led to war?
Objective
a. The students will be able to explain a series of events that led to the Civil War.
Background
Tensions grew for many years before the first shots rang out at Fort Sumter, signaling the beginning of the Civil War. There was a clear division between the north and the south's perspectives of this young country. The Missouri Compromise, The Compromise of 1850, The Dred Scott Decision, John Brown's Raid, Uncle Toms Cabin, and the 1860's election did not occur in a matter of days of each other. These events spanned forty years. To people in the south, those long years of dissatisfaction intensified when Abraham Lincoln was elected president in 1860. This was a final straw that led to several southern states seceding from the Union.
PSA: What to Do...
This is Your Project:
With this project, you will analyze tactics used to combat racism to design and deliver effective PSA messages.
Take at least three days and explore what other kids and schools are doing to fight racism. Google and explore website-after-website and then take the time to read through them to see if any of the information is useful.
Then apply what you learn from numerous sources to create your own PSA storyboards.
By Using Powtunes or Google Slides, students will work in small groups to create a creative PSA that challenges your peers to examine their own prejudices and biases and to be on guard against it.
PSA Project
PSA Criteria Checklist
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Is the problem of racism explored by your team and evidence presented using facts and statistics?
2. Are some of these questions answered:
-What does racism do to a person?
-Why is racism bad?
-What effect does it have on a person?
-What effects does it have in society?
3. Are strategies and ideas explained to combat racism.
4. Did you present specific steps or actions we can use to stop racism?
5. Two powerful and meaningful quotes
6. Add one extra slide with:
One quote from Martin Luther King’s speech.
7. Add one extra slide with:
The Declaration of Independence quote: "we hold these truths to be self-evident......."
8. Strong meaningful and appropriate visuals
9. Use of vocabulary words, germane to these topics.
10. Technical additions and specialities (music)