What If... Project Description

Project Requirements

Due date: Thursday, April 14th (all people with digital projects will submit them in class on block; all paper projects are due by lunch on 4.14)

All of day 1 brainstormed questions

Show me the following things in your final product:

• A clear explanation of your ‘break’ in history
• A list of events that would change if your ‘break’ occurred
  • A description of how the event unfolded in real life (plus a citation for this information!)
  • An explanation of why the events you mentioned would/would not have occurred
  • 5 events must be changed (either happened or didn't happen because of your ‘break’ - this is only a minimum number!)
• Parenthetical citations for any relevant information you include in your descriptions of events
  • You can cite by source number from your works cited page if you want to
• A works cited page

Some useful resources:

• Your textbook (I know, shocker. It's under the desks. It'll be useful here - it might be your best resource for this project!)
• This website. Check out the resources in the units from the last two years.
• Flow of history: a concise, flowchart-y way of looking at history.
• Wikipedia (this can't be your only source)

Some possible final products

• Timetoast (timelines)
• Mural.ly, Padlet
• a series of Thinglinks
• a Google preso, Google site, or Google map
• Prezi
• Something paper-based is also totally fine as well.

The What If... Project rubric can be found here. Two DOPE examples of old projects can be found here and here.