WWII+Summer+Projects

= = = **// World War II //** = = Introduction = =**Now that you have studied World War II, your culminating assignment will be to explore one major aspect of the war in more depth.**= = Your Task = =You are a team of news reporters for a local TV station. Your town has decided to commemorate World War II this year. Your task is to present a 10 to 25-minute special broadcast on the war. Each member of the team has a different job, but you will be working together to produce the final project.= **The Journalist.** Your job is to anchor the newscast. To do this you must take notes on what you find, documenting your sources. You will then write and present the anchor script, introducing the other members of the team as you go along. **The Photographer.** Your job is to find and print photos and other graphics that illustrate the war. For each graphic you need to write a caption that explains who, what, where, and when. You will be presenting the graphics throughout the newscast. You need to write a script for your presentation. **The Historian.** Your job is to present a timeline for each of the major events studied, and an overall timeline linking all of these events. you also need to write a commentary on the events, telling the audience why they are significant. You need to write a script for your presentation. **All Members.** All of you will be keeping a daily journal on each event, in which you record your feelings, ideas, thoughts, questions, and comments, and share them with the other members of the team.
 * Roles**

**Your team should cover all four areas.** 1. the internment of Japanese-Americans during the war 2. the Holocaust 3. the role of U.S. women during the war 4. the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki Here are some books and websites that will be useful to your research for each area:

Electronic Resources:
**Japanese-American Internment Camps** = =
 * [|Encyclopedias] ||

Electronic Resources:

 * [|Children of the Camps] || [|Confinement and Ethnicity: An Overview of Japanese-American Relocation Sites] ||
 * [|Family Album Project] || [|Internment of San Francisco Japanese] ||

Electronic Resources:

 * [|What Did You Do in the War, Grandma?] || [|Women Come to the Front] ||
 * [|WASP-WWII] || [|Women in the Military and Nurses] ||


 * [|Holocaust Timeline] || [|U. S. Holocaust Memorial Museum] ||
 * [|Holocaust History Project] || [|Auschwitz Alphabet] ||

Hiroshima Nagasaki

Electronic Resources:

 * [|The Hiroshima Tapes] || [|Remembering Nagasaki] ||
 * [|Atomic Bomb: Decision] || [|Hiroshima Archive] ||
 * [|Hiroshima: Was It Necessary?] ||  ||

Evaluation Percentages Your journal entries will be worth 30% of your total score. Your group presentation will also be worth 30%. Your notes, documentation of sources, and script-writing will be worth 20%. Your ability to be on task and work cooperatively with the other team members will be worth 20%.

**Evaluation Rubric**
Additional notes to help students: Visuals should be clear and attractively presented. The presentation should be appropriate to a TV broadcast, not a school report. Creativity will be rewarded. Props may be used, as well as music, commercials, costumes, etc. //Tip: Watch some broadcasts beforehand to get some ideas.// Students are to use their time in the library media center wisely - no goofing off. Books as well as internet formats should be used. //Tip: Underline the key words in this paragraph and in the rubric and check back frequently to see if you are fulfilling all the requirements.//
 * Task || A || B || C || D || F ||
 * Journal Entry || Thorough and thoughtful, includes commentary and questions on the research and on the research process. Writes daily and shares with team members. || Only slightly less thorough and thoughtful than an A. || Does an adequate job of covering the material and shows some commentary on both the resssearch and the research process.. || Includes summary of what was found but does not include much original commentary. || Missing or incomplete or didn't follow directions. ||
 * Group Presentation || Clear, original, confident, easily audible, creative, and thorough coverage. || Same as an A paper except to a slightly lesser extent. || Does an adequate job of covering and presenting the material. May lack some of the clarity, originality or creativity of an A or B. || Has some major weaknesses. || Missing, incomplete, or didn't follow directions. ||
 * Notes, documentation of sources, and script-writing || Ample notes follow the format taught in class, ditto for documentation of sources. Rough draft of script is written with sufficient elaboration referring to notes only. || Same as an A except for slightly lesser quality. || Minimal notes, generally follows the format for notes and documentation, rough draft is written from notes but the notes may not be elaborated upon sufficiently. || Notes are less than the number required, and there is little elaboration. Documentation of sources may be incorrect. || Few notes, little documentation or incorrect, and is unable to write the script from notes. ||
 * Team Work: on task and cooperative behavior || Frequently consults with other members of team about the project, and is on task all the time. || Same as A but with a few minor lapses. || Sometimes consults with other members of team, and is usually on task. || Rarely consults with other members of team, and is only on task between 60% and 70% of the time. || Works as an individual or is off task more than 40% of the time. ||