 Process
1. Day
1: Getting ready!
·
First
be sure your team has chosen a role for each team member and has chosen
its topic.
·
Open Microsoft Word
and select “File”, “Save as”. Then type a:\[Your First Name] to create
your own folder for your work. ALWAYS SAVE EVERYTHING YOU CREATE TO THIS
FOLDER, including pictures and text that you copy from the Internet. YOU MAY
CREATE NEW SUBDIRECTORIES IF YOU KNOW HOW TO DO THIS, BUT KEEP ALL OF THEM
FILED UNDER THIS FOLDER! (Another class will be using these disks.)
2. Day 1 & Day 2: Start your research!
·
Go to your team’s topic, below, and check out the Internet links. EVERY TEAM MEMBER
SHOULD BE BUSY WITH THIS PART OF THE PROCESS. THAT WAY, IF SOMEONE IS ABSENT
LATER, THE REST OF THE TEAM WILL STILL BE ABLE TO CONTINUE.
·
When
you are finished with a link, click on the “X” box on the upper right
corner of the page, and you will be returned to the place where you started
in your topic’s list of Internet links.
·
Create
your own “Notes” document in Word and save it to your folder. As
you research, copy and paste important text into this document. Also download
small pictures into this document by Make sure you also copy and paste the
URL, so you can include this source on your works cited list and avoid
plagiarizing!!! Later, you can paraphrase the information or quote it in
your final product.
Research links
- Topic 1: Segregation and Jim Crow Laws
Jim Crow
Laws in the South
The Origin of
Jim Crow
More About the Jim
Crow Laws
- Topic 2: The Depression and Effects on Daily Living
The Great
Depression
Rural
Life in the Depression (re: Nebraska, but still useful)
Timelines
of the Great Depression
Young People
Riding the Rails
- Topic 3: Racism, Hatred, and the Ku Klux
Klan
Ku Klux Klan
Racism in
America Compared to Nazi Racism
Lynching in
America
- Topic 4: Maycomb and its model, Monroeville
Map of Maycomb
with Links to Monroeville
Map of Maycomb in
TKAM
A Trip to Monroeville, AL
- Topic 5: Schools and Education in the 1930s
Brief Description
of Education in the 1930s
Teaching
Reading in the 1930s (look near end of page)
Alabama Rural
Schools of Yesterday & Today (pictures)
What Was School Like in
the 1930s
- Topic 6: The Scottsboro Case
Scottsboro
Case Compared to Robinson Case in TKAM
The
Scottsboro Case--Historical Context
3. Day 2 & day 3: create your
final product
- Now is when you
get together and compare notes on what you want to put into the final product.
- The Writer’s
job is to put the information into clear English. Paraphrase
whenever possible! Only use quotations if they are very important or
impressive.
- The Librarian’s
job is to help keep track of the websites mentioned and their URL’s,
and to develop a Work Cited page.
- The Writer and the
Librarian will provide material for the Computer Technician, who will set
up the format for the final product.
- Team members may
share disks to make it easier to copy information into the final
product.
- As the final
product is taking shape, all team members must put
on their “Editor’s” hats and make sure the product is accurate,
complete, and neatly done.
- Each day, the
Computer Technician must save the product in a file on
his/her disk.
- On the last day, PRINT
YOUR FINAL PRODUCT and SAVE A FINAL VERSION. Turn both in
before leaving the computer lab.
4. Day
4: Make your presentation in class
- Share what you have learned!
- This is the time to show
off your communication skills. Be enthusiastic! What you have to say is
interesting and will make reading To Kill A Mockingbird a better
experience for all.
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