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Unit 4 Project: The New Republic** (Chapters 11-13) Time Period = 1800-1860 **
 * U.S. History
 * Unit Theme = Expansion

**Unit 4 Project Workspace Period 8**

__**Directions**__ **:** This document serves many purposes. 1. Place your **name** in one of the available spots. We will use this list in class to determine the order of presentations. 2. Record your **preliminary** **project topic** //. // 3. Replace your preliminary topic with a narrowed **research question/issue.** Let others know precisely what you are researching 4. Replace your research question/issue with a **learning** **objective** for your presentation. What //sp////ecifically// do you want your audience to be able to do after hearing your presentation. 5. List the type of **visual aid** that you will be using during your presentation. 6. I also need to know the title of your project and the type of higher level thinking you have chosen.

Visual Aid ** || ok || **Topic:** Seneca Falls Convention 1) For students to explain what the Seneca Falls Convention was. 2) For students to create their own plan of action if one of their rights did not exist. 3) For students to explain what Womens Suffrage is. ok || **Topic:** Morse Code, Samuel F.B. Morse ok || **Topic:** Life as a Pioneer ok || **Topic:** The Telegraph: Morse Code ok || **Topic:** The Oregon Trail ok || **Topic:** Manifest Destiny OK || **Topic:** Sojourner Truth ok || **Topic:** The Battle of Chapultepec OK || **Topic:** California Gold Rush Rank 1 through 10 for it either being a positive outcome or a negative outcome. || PowerPoint || ok || **Topic: Cotten Plantations** ok || **Topic:** Harriet Tubman ok || **Title:** Becoming America: The Arts of Early America OK || **Topic:** Mexican War from the Mexican point of view ok || **Topic:** The Erie Canal OK || **Topic:** The Underground Railroad ok || **Topic:** Eli Whitney ok || **Topic:** Henry Clay OK || **Topic:** Nat Turner ok || **Topic:** The Sante Fe Trail OK || **Topic:** the Donner Party = **Period 8 Thinkspace:** =
 * **Student Name** || **Step 1:** Preliminary Topic
 * Step 2:** Research Question/Issue
 * Step 3:** Objective(s) for the presentation
 * Step 4:** Add trigger words for higher level thinking tasks ||= ** Type of
 * 1. Katie Brown || **Topic:** Manifest Destiny
 * Title:** Manifest Destiny: The Era of Divine Intervention
 * Objective:** That everyone will be able to explain the main events of this movement and compare them to modern day occurances.
 * Trigger Word (analysis):** Explain
 * Trigger Word (evaluation):** Compare/ Contrast || powerpoint ||
 * 2 Airen Lowenstein
 * Title:** Man vs. Woman: The Beginning of the Battle
 * Objective:**
 * Trigger Word (analysis):** handout
 * Trigger Word (evaluation):** devise || Powerpoint ||
 * 3 Maria Ressler
 * Title:** Dots and Dashes: The Morse Code Revolution
 * Objective:** The class should be able to name the man who invented Morse Code and name two ways Morse Code improved communication.
 * Trigger Word (analysis):** Translate (handout)
 * Trigger Word (evaluation):** Determine || Model ||
 * 4 Kai Chen || **Topic: Texas Revolution**
 * Title:** Texas Revolution: Mexico's Troubles
 * Objective:** Students should be able to know the reasons that started the war.
 * Trigger Word (analysis): Organize**
 * Trigger Word (evaluation): Judge** || Powerpoint ||
 * 5 Ellie DePastino
 * Title:** Life as a Pioneer: Hardships Out West
 * Objective:** Students should be able to identify 3 hardships early pioneers went through.
 * Trigger Word (analysis):** Dissect
 * Trigger Word (evaluation):** Decide ||  ||
 * 6 David Robinson || **Topic:** The Louisiana Purchase
 * Title:** Expanding a Young Country: The Louisiana Purchase
 * Objective:** For students to be able to explain what happened during the Louisiana purchase and where it expanded.
 * Trigger Word (analysis):** Analze
 * Trigger Word (evaluation):** Handout || Poster ||
 * 7 Keeley Foor
 * Title:** The Telegraph: Old Fashioned Communication
 * Objective:** For students to be able to message something using Morse code and be able to list at least two ways the telegraph helped to improve lives of Americans.
 * Trigger Word (analysis):** Dissect
 * Trigger Word (evaluation):** Evaluate; the importance of the telegraph in America and the world || PowerPoint ||
 * 8. Brent Saxton
 * Title:** Survival of the Fittest: The Oregon Trail
 * Objective:** By the end of my presentation, the students should be able to describe the difficulty and hardship faced on the trail, as well as some common decisions necessary for survival and some of the common landmarks and events that pioneers passed or faced on trail
 * Trigger Word (analysis):** List some of the landmarks passed on the Trail
 * Trigger Word (evaluation):** Pick whether or not the they would take Sublette Cutoff or not and back that decision up with a brief explanation || Poster ||
 * 9 John Petrolias
 * Title:** Manfest Destiny: The Goal That Changed The Course of Westward Expansion
 * Objective:** Students should be able to explain what Manifest Destiny is and who invented the idea of it.
 * Trigger Word (analysis):** Outline
 * Trigger Word (evaluation):** Validate || Powerpoint ||
 * 10 Krishna Vakil
 * Title:** Sojourner Truth: Ain't I A Woman
 * Objective: the students will be able to list some of Truth's accomplishments**
 * Trigger Word (analysis):** table(handout)
 * Trigger Word (evaluation):handout** || powerpoint ||
 * 11 Caleb Reynolds
 * Title:** The Battle of Chapultepec: A Castle Destroyed
 * Objective:** For students to be able to identify the American's strategy in the Battle of Chapultepec.
 * Trigger Word (analysis): Analyze**
 * Trigger Word (evaluation): Discard** || poster ||
 * 12. Alexa Ward || **Topic: The Texas Alamo**
 * Title:** The Texas Alamo: The Battle of Independence
 * Objective:** What was the outcome of the battle and how did it change the future?
 * Trigger Word (analysis):** Analyze
 * Trigger Word (evaluation):** Students should be able to indentify the outcome of the war and how it changed Texas. || Poster ||
 * 13 Sarah Matrascia
 * Title:** The California Gold Rush Why its was Created
 * Objective:** Student should be able to explain who the founder of the Gold Rush was and why he wanted to keep the founding of gold a secret.
 * Trigger Word (analysis):** Hand out
 * Trigger Word (evaluation):** . Students should evaluate the Gold Rush discovery.
 * 14 Will Hughes
 * Title:** Cotton is King!: The real reason for expantion!
 * Objective:** For students to be able to identify why cotten plantation owener were moving west.
 * Trigger Word (analysis):** Compare and contrast
 * Trigger Word (evaluation):** Students should be able to identify how cotton plantations affected westward expantion || Map ||
 * 15 Kara Acunto
 * Title:** Harriet Tubman: A Champion Against Slavery
 * Objective:** The students should be able to describe what role Harriet Tubman played as a activist against slavery.
 * Trigger Word (analysis):** Motives
 * Trigger Word (evaluation):** (Did) she choose a whise course of action? || PowerPoint ||
 * 16 Mackenzie Flaherty
 * Objective:** Students will be able to know what other county's influenced American arts and compare their similarities.
 * Trigger Word (analysis):** Compare
 * Trigger Word (evaluation):** Rank from 1 to 5 how original the Americans were with creating their own style || PowerPoint ||
 * 17 Mairin Plant
 * Title:** A Different Perspective: The Mexican War from the Mexican Point of View
 * Objective:** Students should be able to identify reasons why the Mexicans were against the war.
 * Trigger Word (analysis):** Analyze
 * Trigger Word (evaluation):** Determine || Poster ||
 * 18 Alex Needles
 * Title:Clinton's Ditch**
 * Objective:** The Students will be able to explain when the Erie Canal was built.
 * Trigger Word (analysis):** ?
 * Trigger Word (evaluation):** ? || Powerpoint ||
 * 19 Kelli Cochran
 * Title:** The Path to Freedom
 * Objective:** For the students to understand the concept of the Underground Railroad and for them to know who, what, when, where, and why.
 * Trigger Word (analysis):** Catagorized
 * Trigger Word (evaluation):** Conclude || powerpoint? ||
 * 20 Zach Crates
 * Title:** Eli Whitney: The Key to Economy in the South
 * Objective:** For students to understand what the Cotton Gin and Interchangeable Parts were.
 * Trigger Word (analysis):** ?
 * Trigger Word (evaluation):** ? || PowerPoint ||
 * 21 Maggie Pratt
 * Title: Henry Clay: The Missouri Compromise **
 * Objective:** Students will be able to say what the Missouri Compromise was.
 * Trigger Word (analysis):** Handout
 * Trigger Word (evaluation):** Explain || Poster ||
 * 22 Jack O'Reilly-Tanner
 * Title:** The Rebellion of the century
 * Objective:** To explain how the violence in the nat turner rebellion hindered rather that helped the resolution of the slavery issue.
 * Trigger Word (analysis):** ?
 * Trigger Word (evaluation):** ? || PowerPoint ||
 * 23 Daniel Steele
 * Title:** The Sante Fe Trail: The Trail of Expansion
 * Objective:** Students should know where they started their expedition and where the trail ended, and about how far the trail was.
 * Trigger Word (analysis):** Order/Organize
 * Trigger Word (evaluation):** Consequences || PowerPoint ||
 * 24 Zach Henninger || **Topic:** La Amistad
 * Title: La Amistad:** A Slave Mutiny is Defended by a Former President
 * Objective:** The students will learn what happened on the Amistad and how the case became famous in a U.S. Court.
 * Trigger Word (analysis):** Explain
 * Trigger Word (evaluation):** Differentiate the views of Americans about slavery during this time. || PowerPoint ||
 * 25 Sam Cooper
 * Title:** Westward Expansion Gone Wrong: The Donner Party
 * Objective:** Students should be able to describe what events led to the downfall of the Donner Party
 * Trigger Word (analysis):** ?
 * Trigger Word (evaluation):** ? || Powerpoint ||

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