Week of 11/16
In class today you will work on your Meeting of the Minds project - below is the assignment and expectations for the assignment - please create a list on the front board with your name and the historical person you are researching - lastly, please take note of the dates assignments/tasks are due:
Historical Mind/Character Study
Description of Unit/Design of Activities:
Students will select an individual from the Cold War they feel has been the most impactful/significant
Task:
After reading a biography students will have a meeting of the minds/salon (students will synthesize the products below to prepare for this activity) – YOUR FINAL!!!!!
Purpose/Enduring Understanding:
Meaningful research
Will view their character through multiple lenses/perspectives
Driving Question(s)/Essential Question(s):
Lingering question – did the man shape the times or did the times shape the man
Major Experiences:
Relationship / Impact of their character on the students life today (legacy)
Public Display of knowledge
Assessment: formative and summative:
Reflection – who did they meet in the “salon”, what did you learn, did you have a nemesis
Leading to the final TASK
Students will create historical songs - 1/7/16
Facebook pages for their historical character - 1/11/16
Obituary - 1/14/16
Resume/job fair (entering History’s Hall of Fame) - 1/19/16
Character sketch - 1/21/16
Collage - 1/25/16
IT IS YOUR RESPONSIBILITY TO MAKE SURE EACH OF YOUR CLASSMATES HAS YOUR FACEBOOK INFO
Augusto Pinochet
Ayatollah Khomeini
Dwight Eisenhower
Fidel Castro
Ho Chi Minh
John F Kennedy
Josef Stalin
Pope John Paul II
Richard Nixon
Ronald Reagan - River
Salvador Allende
Tito
Henry Kissinger
Lech Walesa
Lyndon B Johnson
Mao Zedong
Margaret Thatcher
Mikhail Gorbachev
Nikita Krushchev
Yasar Arafat