Progressive Era

Culminating Project

You have completed some of the internet exploration packets on the Progressive Era in worksheets and websites.  It is time to put that information together into a final project.  For the unit on the Progressives you will take a QUIZ and complete a small PROJECT for your assessment instead of a test.  The quiz will tell me if you understand some of the significant people and events that happened during the Progressive period.  In addition your project will allow a creative outlet for you to explore the people and events that impacted the era.

    As an individual you will work to complete three separate tasks for one project grade.  You will complete 

    1. political cartoon

    2. comparison essay

    3. creative writing. 

    Using the chart provided below to pick your topics, you will choose from which column you would like each assignment to come from.  For instance, you could choose to write a report comparing W.E.B. DuBois and Booker T. Washington as social reformers (column C), draw a political cartoon about Upton Sinclair and the meat packing industry (column B), and do some creative writing about Boss Politics (column A). 

Check out these links, your textbook, or other resources for a refresher on these topics:

http://memory.loc.gov/learn/features/timeline/progress/progress.html

http://pw1.netcom.com/~wandaron/prog.html

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aaohtml/exhibit/aopart6.html

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/jimcrow/stories_people_dubois.html

http://www.webdubois.org/

    Political Cartoon must be clear, have a purpose, and reflect the topic you choose.

    Create a political cartoon using Read Write Think's Cartoon maker.  Your cartoon must be a 3 panel cartoon showing one of the issues from the Progressive Era.     Include:  backgrounds, people, word bubbles, and captions to help explain the events of the era.  You may choose to draw by hand, but this site will help you.  Be     sure to have enough time for this as this site will not save, you must print it when you are finished. 

     Creative Writing should be something unique like a sample journal entry, newspaper article, poem, etc.  Use Microsoft Word to type it!

    Comparison essay needs to be in formal ELA style.  Begin by making a T chart comparing and contrasting two people or two reform movements.  This essay should be 3-4 paragraphs with a minimum of 5 sentences per paragraph.  This should provide a description of the topics and then move into a comparison.  You ma write this as a dialogue between two people agreeing or disagreeing on a topic IF (  <-- that's a big "if"!) it still provides the same detail a formal essay would provide.  Use Microsoft Word to type it!

A complete project is one that has all the work finished and is turned in with a rubric, a political cartoon, a piece of creative writing, and a final copy of a comparison essay. 

All of this is due by the end of school on Thursday, December 20.  Please make arrangements to work ahead - some of you will not finish only using class time.