Cold War StudiesStudents CREATE as they learn about the events that shaped our time; leveraging free internet-based tools to learn and present their learning about the following topics.
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(This class is coded NCES 04065)
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Watching of historical video footage of JFK in Berlin, other historical video footage, and hours of high-quality documentaries is complemented by several full-length movies such as Night Crossing and Thirteen Days. We read Animal Farm and literature that highlights the gripping fear of nuclear war and the red scare of communism. Students keep a journal as they learn, creating animations and videos and using lots of online tools.
Sample Student Portfolios
Sample Project Checklist (from Week 6 of Cold War Studies)
6-20 (50pts) Character Parallels
Before you begin this project, watch any 20 minutes of this Allain Documentary called Comrades.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZx3IAj9f0k&index=1&list=PL4rXQPgripyY1DPlpZSfY-MHhQwcBEEOQ
Feel free to skip around in it--I just want you to be familiar with the main players and some of the footage from the time period. 20 minutes.
For this Character Parallels project, you'll create a Google Slideshow that compares characters/events from Animal Farm with historical people and events. So you'll have a slide for Marx and a slide for the Russian Aristocracy. You'll have a slide for the oppressed, uneducated people that served the Czar and then served the People's Revolution without complaint. You'll have a slide for Trotzky.
Each slide will have an equals sign in the middle, and a picture representing on each side. Keep it consistent so that animals are always on the left, for example. Label both sides.
At the bottom of each slide, under the two pics and the equal sign, put a quote from Animal Farm that either explains the slide or is something said by the character. On Boxer's slide, you could have his awesome quote: "The solution, as I see it, is to work harder. From now onwards I shall get up a full hour earlier in the mornings."
Or on the slide about the dogs being equal to the secret police, you could have "It was noticed that they wagged their tails to him [Napoleon] in the same way as the other dogs had been used to do to Mr. Jones."
You don't need to come up with all of this out of your head, of course. Here's where I got that juicy quote about the dogs: http://www.shmoop.com/animal-farm/the-nine-dogs.html
And www.sparknotes.com and www.cliffsnotes.com are always helpful in situations like this.
PROJECT CHECKLIST
____ Watch >20 minutes of video.
____ Create and embed a Google Slideshow of at least 8 comparisons. Label each, include pics, and include quotes from the book.
____ Add a bit of explanation on the Portfolio page/post, so that future viewers will know that you read the book and found comparisons to historical figures/events/ideas. You may choose to combine this with the picture of yourself with the book, in terms of the project's location in your Portfolio.
____ Narrow down your Animal Farm essay topic (from last week) and submit that along with the link to your Slideshow. Last week you narrowed down to two essay possibilities. Now from those, choose one.
____ Copy/paste the URL where we can see this project.
____ Also copy this Project Checklist into the submission space, marked with __x__ to show completion.
6-20 (50pts) Character Parallels
Before you begin this project, watch any 20 minutes of this Allain Documentary called Comrades.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZx3IAj9f0k&index=1&list=PL4rXQPgripyY1DPlpZSfY-MHhQwcBEEOQ
Feel free to skip around in it--I just want you to be familiar with the main players and some of the footage from the time period. 20 minutes.
For this Character Parallels project, you'll create a Google Slideshow that compares characters/events from Animal Farm with historical people and events. So you'll have a slide for Marx and a slide for the Russian Aristocracy. You'll have a slide for the oppressed, uneducated people that served the Czar and then served the People's Revolution without complaint. You'll have a slide for Trotzky.
Each slide will have an equals sign in the middle, and a picture representing on each side. Keep it consistent so that animals are always on the left, for example. Label both sides.
At the bottom of each slide, under the two pics and the equal sign, put a quote from Animal Farm that either explains the slide or is something said by the character. On Boxer's slide, you could have his awesome quote: "The solution, as I see it, is to work harder. From now onwards I shall get up a full hour earlier in the mornings."
Or on the slide about the dogs being equal to the secret police, you could have "It was noticed that they wagged their tails to him [Napoleon] in the same way as the other dogs had been used to do to Mr. Jones."
You don't need to come up with all of this out of your head, of course. Here's where I got that juicy quote about the dogs: http://www.shmoop.com/animal-farm/the-nine-dogs.html
And www.sparknotes.com and www.cliffsnotes.com are always helpful in situations like this.
PROJECT CHECKLIST
____ Watch >20 minutes of video.
____ Create and embed a Google Slideshow of at least 8 comparisons. Label each, include pics, and include quotes from the book.
____ Add a bit of explanation on the Portfolio page/post, so that future viewers will know that you read the book and found comparisons to historical figures/events/ideas. You may choose to combine this with the picture of yourself with the book, in terms of the project's location in your Portfolio.
____ Narrow down your Animal Farm essay topic (from last week) and submit that along with the link to your Slideshow. Last week you narrowed down to two essay possibilities. Now from those, choose one.
____ Copy/paste the URL where we can see this project.
____ Also copy this Project Checklist into the submission space, marked with __x__ to show completion.