World War I: Choose Your Own Adventure

Working in groups of 3, you are to choose several of the assignments below to complete that total 400 points. Your group must have a minimum of (2) 100 point assignments.  There are four types of skills that we will be trying to develop: chronological reasoning, comparison and contextualization, crafting historical arguments from historical evidence, and historical interpretation and synthesis. All of the activities must pertain to the World War I Era (1914 - 1919) of US History and be specific to American topics.  To get full credit, your finished products must include all requirements (read them carefully) that are listed on the Assignments descriptions pages found at www.mrroughton.com .  You will have only 2 class periods to work on these; any other work must be done outside of class.  Your grade will be determined by this rubric.

50 pt assignments 20-30 minutes to complete (only 4 can be chosen)

__ Advice Letter To President Wilson about whether the US should join or not

__ History Report Card: United States in WWI

     (Ethics, Propaganda, Foreign Policy, Technology)

__ Picture Frame: Your Choice        

__ Advertisement:  (Something from Ch. 18, sec. 3)

__ Acrostic poem: “Propaganda”

__ Be the Thing: Treaty of Versailles

__ Wanted Poster: Your Choice

__ Top 10 list: Impact/Effects of WWI on the US

100 pt assignments 45 minutes to complete

__ Annotated Illustration: WWI battle field        

__ Dear Diary: A wife or mother of a soldier

__ Song Rewrite: Be Creative.        

__ Brain Chain 

__ Instant Messages:         C.P.I., or Espionage & Sedition Acts        

__ Illustrated Timeline                

__ Comic Strip: something about the home front