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Web
Project 3 – Toward the 21st Century
America’s
Continuing Story . . . .
For
your third web project you will be asked to become the historian and tell
one of America’s stories from the late twentieth century in our
visual web format.
Your task will be to take one of the suggested topics and to craft, within
our limited parameters, a narrative that explains your topic and informs
your viewer. You will have to do the work of any teacher or historian,
deciding what to include, what to exclude, and how to tell the story.
You should see yourselves as contributors to the national narrative.
For your project consider the following:
-
A brief overview of your topic.
- Include
primary source material in your presentation. The historian’s
first job is to examine the evidence.
- A
timeline in any format you choose, with at least 5 entries. No cut &
paste here.
- Biographical
sketches, if your project suggests these.
- An
interpretation of how your topic fits into or affects the larger concerns
of twentieth century America. Try here to make your own leap, from evidence
to interpretation, and not to depend entirely on someone else’s
view.
- Think
about this assignment as a logical extension of your first project which
included description, historical context, and interpretation.
You
are free here to organize your material in any way you choose.
Think
about how the story will logically flow, both textually and visually.
Always
keep in mind your audience, that is, someone intelligent and curious,
who is not already familiar with the material, and who appreciates
a clear, direct, and interesting presentation.
Since
you will be working with much of the same material for your second
essay, concentrate more on the visual and informative for Project
3.
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The
Beatles (L-R, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Ringo Starr, John
Lennon), in 1964, performing on The Ed Sullivan Show during their
first United States tour, promoting their first U.S. hit song, "I
Want To Hold Your Hand." and ushering in the "British
Invasion" of American popular music. |
CHECKLIST:
- Original
title
- Brief
overview of topic
- Include
primary source material
- At
least 3 sources, excluding your images
- A
timeline in any format with at least 5 entries
- Interpretation
- Approximately
300 - 400 words of text
- In-text
parenthetical citations for all material either quoted directly or paraphrased
- Acknowledgement
of all your sources, both text and image, in MLA format
TECH
CHECKLIST:
-
Page name that reflects the project
- Links
from your menu page to the project, and from your project back to the
menu page
- At
least 3 images
-
At least 1 thumbnail of an image
- Alt
tags for your images
- Link
to at least one external website, opening in a new window, giving your
viewer more information
Project
due: April 30 - Last Class Day |
TOPICS:
General:
- First
Ladies since World War II
World
War II:
- The
Treatment of Japanese Americans during World War II (Herlinda
Muniz)
The Decision to Drop the Atomic Bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki (Nnanna
Otuonye)
The
Cold War and the 1950s:
- Julius
and Ethel Rosenberg
- Alfred
Kinsey and the Kinsey Reports (Andrew Terrell)
- Levittown
and the Rise of the American Suburb (Elaine Wright)
- Jack
Kerouac (Jack Eriksson)
- Ray
Kroc and McDonalds (Saralee Gomez)
Anxieties of the 1950s:
- Juvenile
Delinquency
- Why
Johnny Can’t Read, a 1955 critique of education in America
- The
Enemy Within – Joseph McCarthy and the House Un-American Activities
Committee
- The
Red Scare in Hollywood - The Hollywood Blacklist
- Radioactive
Milk
The
New Frontier of John F.Kennedy:
- The
Making of a President, 1960
- The
Election of John F. Kennedy (James Stark)
- The
Cuban Missile Crisis (Ray Zhang & Derek Young)
- Lee
Harvey Oswald and the Kennedy Assassination (Patrick Smith)
- The
Warren Commission Report
The
Psychedelic 1960s:
- Woodstock
and Altamont (Jacques Turner, & Natalia Vargas)
- Timothy
Leary (Michael Ray)
- Haight-Ashbury
and “The Summer of Love” in San Francisco
The
Feminist Movement
- Betty
Friedan and The Feminine Mystique (Johanna Vasquez)
The Space Race:
- Chuck
Yeager
- U. S.
Reaction to Sputnik (Veronica LeBlanc)
- The
Mercury Seven Astronauts – Who had the “right stuff”?
- Freedom
7, Liberty Bell 7, & Friendship 7 – from suborbital to orbital
flight
Year of Upheaval: 1968
- The
1968 Democratic Convention (Faizon Ali)
Vietnam:
- Oral
History: Interview a Vietnam Veteran (James Lee)
- The
My Lai Massacre (Kelly Daiell & Martin Pham)
- The
Vietnam War in Film (Vanessa Vallejo)
- The
Tet Offensive
- Maya
Ying Lin and The Vietnam Memorial
Civil
Rights:
- Ending
Jim Crow: Desegregation before Brown v. Board of Education - Desegregating
the Armed Forces
- The
Montgomery Bus Boycott (Danielle Gray)
- Integrating
Central High (Little Rock, Arkansas)
- The
United Farm Workers and the Grape Boycott
- Long
Hot Summers: Race Riots during the 1960s (Dominique Griffin)
- The
March from Selma to Montgomery (Stephanie Pulido)
- By Any
Means Necessary – Malcolm X (Jeffrey Idehen & Greg
Dial)
- The
Birmingham Church Bombing (Alicia Gantt)
Since
1970:
- Patricia
Hearst and the Symbionese Liberation Army
- Nixon
in China
- Watergate
(Jackie Arias)
- The
Munich Olympics
- The
Iran Hostage Crisis (Raheel Ramadan)
- Oklahoma
City Bombing (Kelly Stavinoha)
- Steve
Jobs and the Apple Computer (Kenneth Miller)
Media:
- Television
and the Family
- Changing
Portrayals of the Family, 1950s to the Present (Kristin Howard)
- Changing
Portrayals of Mothers, 1950s to the Present (Elizabeth Sanderson)
- Changing
Portrayals of Fathers, 1950s to the Present
- Ted
Turner, CNN, and the growth of cable television
Images:
Launch of
Friendship 7. 1962. Online image. Boeing: The History Beneath Our Wings.
24 March 2005. <http://www.boeing.com/history/mdc/graphics/hist170b.htm>
The Beatles
in 1964, performing on The Ed Sullivan Show during their first United
States tour, promoting their first U.S. hit song, "I Want To Hold
Your Hand." Online image. Wikipedia. 24 March 2005. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Beatlessullivansinging.jpg>
Vietnam Memorial.
Online image. 24 March 2005.
<http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/learning_history/vietnam/vietnam_wall/vietnam_wall.cfm>
Woodstock
poster. Online image. The Eyes of the Nation. Library of Congress. 24
March 2005. <http://www.loc.gov/loc/lcib/9711/eyes.html>
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