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1920s & 1930s
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Notes for Annotations
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My Lifetime
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Children’s
Book
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Write a children’s book (with
pictures) of the story of the role women have played in advancing social
issues. It is important to be as true
to historical events as possible.
The book will be illustrated. You may create collages or pictures you
have created on your own in either color or black and white. DOWNLOADED IMAGES are not
permitted. I want you to express
yourself artistically for this project.
The ratio of text : images is left to your discretion. A more sophisticated text will have fewer illustrations;
a Children’s Book geared towards younger audiences will have more
illustrations and simpler text.
Keep in mind, the writing should
be geared towards a children’s audience.
This means simple sentences rather than “dumbing down” the
language.
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Pop-up
Book
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Like the Children’s Book, a Pop-up
book will show the role that women have played in advancing social issues.
Geared towards a younger audience
than the Children’s Book, you will use simpler language and simplify the
themes and historical figures as they struggled to advance social
issues. As you tell the story, the
characters (or scenes from the event) will “pop-up” from the pages.
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Comic
Book
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Create a comic book showing the
story of an important woman in history or depicting an event significant to
the role women have played in advancing social issues. Use a variety of perspectives, sound
effects, and views of the action to liven the story up. Character dialogue uses balloons, narration
through story blocks.
Comic templates are available upon
request.
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Sculpture
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Create a sculpture (from whatever
materials you wish) of a “women’s history memorial.”
Complete a brief write-up of what the sculpture represents and how the images shown memorialize the important role women have played in advancing social issues in American history. Be sure to clearly, explicitly and with detail connect your artistic decisions to what the sculpture represents regarding your topic. Include details about the size of the sculpture, the material(s) used in its creation and where you imagine the sculpture resting. |
Film
/ Documentary
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Create a 3 – 5 minute movie. It can be a “home movie” related to the
Book, a documentary, or a parody. You
may use actors, animation, Claymation or any other medium you choose. The film must include a written explanation
of how the film’s content relates the role women have played in American history.
As a modification to this
assignment, you may film an “interview” (with Oprah, Conan, Letterman,
Fallon…) with a woman who was instrumental in affecting change. Ask probing questions along the lines
of “why did you do this?” and “what
were the most difficult moments for you?” will demonstrate mastery of the
material.
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Music
Video
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Write, choreograph and film a
music video. You may write and create
an original song, re-write the lyrics to an existing song, or mash-up and mix
existing songs.
Your production must address how
the music video relates the role women have played in American history. A written copy of the lyrics and a brief
write-up of how the video shows the contributions of women to American
history must also be included.
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Exceeds
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Meets
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Developing
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· Vividly depicts the injustices of
the problem or issue before action taken to change (“backstory” given)
· Use of primary documents evident
in project (through dialogue, actions or interactions with others)
· Concludes project by raising /
pointing to current social issues that have yet to be resolved
· inspires / encourages readers to
act to make social change
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Language is clear and easy to understand
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Nature of social problem is clearly demonstrated
·Why
social issue was important to women is clearly explained
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Ideas and actions of woman (women) in making change clear
· Shows the challenges / obstacles in
struggle
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Concludes project with explanation / connection of the importance of women,
the event or the change that happened to the present
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· Language is difficult to
understand
· Social problem is vague or
misunderstood
· Connection of social issue to
role of women is not clearly shown
· Role women played in affecting
social change is vague, misunderstood or not well developed
· Challenges / obstacles in
struggle are misrepresented, misunderstood, missing or vague
· Connection of project to the
present is missing, poorly developed or misunderstood
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Content
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· Images demonstrate artistic skill
· accurately captures dress/ styles
/ technology of the time period
· visually captures sense of place
and time
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· Images
are original work of the student
·Work demonstrates a high degree of
effort on the part of the student
· important / key people are
incorporated into the story
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images clearly connect / relate to the written story
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· Images not the original work of the student
· Effort in creating and compiling
the project shoddy, last minute or poorly completed
· important / key people are
missing from the story
· connection of images to the
historical event / story unclear or missing
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Images
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Demonstrates mastery of conventions of standard written English with
few or no errors
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· Demonstrates fluency of conventions of
standard written English with some minor errors
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· Developing fluency with conventions of
standard written English with many or significant errors
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Conventions
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