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A Chicano Scrapbook

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Experiences of World War II

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Directions

  • For this mini-project, you will work with either individually, in pairs, or in a group of 3 to complete the assignment.

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    • If you choose to work with a partner, ensure that each of you completes an equal portion of the work.

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    • Those who work with a partner or a group must include in 1 slide an explanation of what each group member completed

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Directions

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Due Thursday, October 10th at the beginning of class via Schoology.

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Worth 30 points

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Requirements

Step 1: Select a Focus

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  • What do you want to focus on? You must be very specific.
    • Chicano’s in the army?
    • Chicano female factory workers?
    • Chicano pilots?
    • Chicano Zoot Suiters?

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Step 2: Select a Specific Individual

  • The person you choose should be a real person

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Step 3: Citing your Sources

  • When you visit websites and gather information, create a Works Cited Page in APA format
  • Include Author’s Last Name, First Initial. (Year Written). Title of Webpage. Date Accessed. URL of Website
  • Alphabetize your sources according to last name or website title

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Step 4: Slide Contents

We are pretending this is a scrapbook, just in electronic form, so select background that look like a scrapbook. Decorate your scrapbook with medallions, images, and even video’s to help support your topic.

Slide 1: Title Slide with your theme & historical figure

Slide 2-4: Describes what World War II was? How did it start? What was its duration? Who were the major countries involved? What happened in between the war? How did World War II end? *You got this Jose

Slide 5: What were the casualties? How many people died in total? How many Chicano’s died?

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Slide Contents

Slide 6: Introduce your historical figure. Who are they? Where did they grow up? What were their experiences like? How old were they during World War II?

Slide 7-11: Your historical person’s participation in World War II. In this section, you can also explain what Chicano’s in general did in your topic. For example, if you are talking about Chicano nurses, you can go into detail about what nurses did in general, then describe what Chicana nurses did.

Slide 12: Would you consider your person a hero? Explain

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Sample

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During World War II, while White women and African American women were out getting factory jobs. Most Chicano men refused to let “their” women work.

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The majority of Mexican American women raised children in the home and took care of the household while their husbands worked or were at war. But some women were able to participate in factory life, like Guadalupe, seen second to the right in image above. Guadalupe worked as an iron worker making...