BOOM OR BUST PROJECT (60 points) BOOM Roaring Twenties Harlem Renaissance Marcus Garvey Al Capone (gangster) George Raft (gangster/actor) Lucky Luciano (gangster) Jazz Age Louis Armstrong (jazz performer) Duke Ellington (jazz performer) Prohibition Cotton Club (famous jazz club) Dances of the 1920’s: Lindy Hop, Foxtrot, Charleston Flappers and the Changing Role of Women Twenties Home Electric Technology: Appliance and Gadgets The Lost Generation F. Scott Fitzgerald (writer) Ernest Hemingway (writer) Langston Hughes (writer) Zora Neale Hurston (writer) Art Deco (art and architecture style) Black Tuesday and the Wall Street Crash of 1929 Radio programs of the 1920’s “Golden Age of Radio” Speakeasies Movies of the 1920’s (talkies!!) Rudolph Valentino (actor) Buster Keaton (actor/comedian) Ku Klux Klan Nineteenth Amendment (gave women the right to vote) Charles Lindbergh (aviator) Babe Ruth (baseball player) Lou Gehrig (baseball player) Jack Dempsey (boxer) Teapot Dome Scandal
BUST Great Depression
Dust Bowl Black Tuesday New Deal Great Depression
BOOM OR BUST PROJECT (60 Points) 1. LOCATE TWO AUTHORITATIVE RESOURCES ON EACH TOPIC (That is a total of 4). 2. COLLECT 2 RESOURCE CARDS AND TWENTY NOTECARDS ON EACH TOPIC. (4 cited sources- copy and paste to a word document and print and 40 notecards total) Make sure you use MLA format for the Resource cards. 3. USE YOUR NOTECARDS AND RESOURCES TO CREATE: A BOOM Power Point AND A A BUST Power Point You MUST include these elements on EACH Power Point: Project Title and YOUR NAME and HOUR: (Include BOOM or BUST in the Title and your name and hour) 3 Text Elements: use complete sentences to give a detailed overview of your topic. You should have a total of 300 words or more on your finished Power Point. 6 Images, Videos OR Audio Elements: Video or audio should play when you click on it. LABEL EACH with a CAPTION explaining what your picture is and how it relates to the topic (example: “Louis Armstrong at the piano leading his band in a jazz classic.”) SOURCES: Turn in a “Works Cited” page on the due date. Copy and paste from Noodle Tools to a word document and print it off. Use MLA format. 4. PRESENT YOUR POWER POINT. Email both Power Points to your teacher’s email!! Students will be critiquing your Power Points. Name:
BOOM Topic:
BUST Topic:
Scoring Guide 1. NOTECARDS………………………………………………………………………………………BOOM….. ______/11 20 or more individual fact cards PER TOPIC BUST….. ______/11 2 Resource cards PER TOPIC Each card must be: Correctly formatted AND HELD TOGETHER WITH A CLIP that you provide. Include only IMPORTANT facts ALL facts are IN YOUR OWN WORDS (Plagiarizing will result in a 0 on this project) 2. Power Points…………………………………………………………………………………… BOOM..…______/10 BUST…… /10 3 Text elements (300 words or more, important facts, less than 5 errors in conventions) 6 Images/Video/Audio Elements (colorful, explains topic) AND CAPTIONS with each element 1 Title/ Your Name and Hour (author/creative title) 3. THOUGHTFUL MESSAGE in student’s writing and captions……… ……………BOOM………._______/5 Captures important information BUST………. /5 Strong student VOICE in presentation style and writing 4. CREATIVE DESIGN…………………………………………………………………………BOOM……… _____/4 Layout is unique and interesting BUST………… /4 Images/Video/Audio explain the written information Font, background and frames were carefully chosen and fit topic ___`
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/60