Unit+4+Project-Period+2

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

**Unit 4 Project Workspace** **Period 1**

__**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.

**Step 2:** Research Question/Issue **Step 3:** Objective(s) for the presentation **Step 4:** Add trigger words for higher level thinking tasks ||= ** Type of Visual Aid ** || [] ||  || 1) Compare life before the Industrial Revolution to life during the Industrial Revolution. 2) List some inventions and their inventors. 3) Assess the inventions' impact on the Industrial Revolution 1) Identify the cause of the Mexican-American War 2) Explain the effects of the Mexican-American War 3) Identify some important battles fought during the Mexican-American War 1) Determine and separate the pros and cons of working in the Lowell Mills as a young girl. 2) Argue a position on whether they would work in a mill or not as a young girl. Describe life on The Oregon Trail. 1) List the various types of transportation that were developed in specific parts of the United States 2) Describe the expansion of transportation over the period of time discussed. Bandosz || **Title**: Education Reform: The Key to Better People 1) Compare the 1800s school system before and after the reform. 2) Predict how the U.S. would function if the education (WHAT?) reform did not occur. 1) Explain how the new political parties emerged 2) Explain how the old parties died out 3) Compare the old parties to the new parties. how people were impacted, and what the result of the Irish Potato Famine was?
 * **Student Name** || **Step 1:** Preliminary Topic
 * 1. Chris Griffin || **Title**: America's Greatest Discovery: The American Gold Rush
 * Objective**: Explain the positives and negatives of the American Gold Rush and also explain the hardships the "forty-niners" faced on their trip to California.
 * Trigger Word (analysis):** ?
 * Trigger Word (synthesis):** ?
 * 2. Ben McGraw || **Title**: The Underground Railroad: A Quest for Freedom
 * Objective**: Explain the risks of taking the Underground Railroad
 * Trigger Word (analysis):** Examine
 * Trigger Word (synthesis):** Judge || PowerPoint ||
 * 3. ||  ||   ||
 * 4 Nora Vaughan || **Title**: Morse Code: Dots and Dashes Changing Communication
 * Objective**: Compare life before and after the telegraph
 * Trigger Word (analysis):** Compare
 * Trigger Word (synthesis):** Prioritize ||  ||
 * 5. Emily Stoehr || **Title**: America's Monumental Change: The Life, Inventors, and Inventions of the Industrial Revolution
 * Objectives**:
 * Trigger Word (analysis):** Compare
 * Trigger Word (synthesis):** Assess (Criteria-how it improved the tasks of the American people by convenience/access, how easy the task was now due to the invention) || Poster ||
 * 6. Adam Shrum || **Title**: All Aboard for Prosperity: Steam & Expansion
 * Objective**: Evaluate and explain what was the effect steam locomotives in the expansion of the United States?
 * Trigger Word (analysis):** explain
 * Trigger Word (synthesis):** assess || Poster ||
 * 7. Maya Bradley || **Title**: The Mexican-American War: The Stronger versus the Weaker Nation
 * Objectives**:
 * Trigger Word (analysis):** Compare/Contrast
 * Trigger Word (synthesis):** Cause/Effect || PowerPoint ||
 * 8 Amy Howard || **Title**: Life Growing:America's Population Growth
 * Objective**: Realize how much the population changed during the 1800s.
 * Trigger Word (analysis):** ?
 * Trigger Word (synthesis):** ? ||  ||
 * 9. Gracie Leibow || **Title:** The Lowell Mill Girls: A Worthy Opportunity?
 * Objectives**:
 * Trigger Word (analysis):** Separate
 * Trigger Word (synthesis):** Pros/Cons, Argue, Determine || PowerPoint ||
 * 10. Anna Albers || **Title**: A Wild Adventure: Life on the Oregon Trail
 * Objectives**:
 * Trigger Word (analysis):** Analyze
 * Trigger Word (synthesis):** Predict ||  ||
 * 11. Hale Knox || **Title**: The United States Gets Moving: Mapping the Expansion of Transportation in the United States from 1800 to 1860
 * Objectives**:
 * Trigger Word (analysis):** Progression Maps
 * Trigger Word (synthesis):** Progression Maps || PowerPoint ||
 * 12. Patrycja
 * Objectives**:
 * Trigger Word (analysis):** Compare
 * Trigger Word (synthesis):** Predict || PowerPoint ||
 * 13 Brendan Duffy || **Title**: A New Generation Emerges: New Political Parties in America
 * Objective**:Students should be able to:
 * Trigger Word (analysis):** Explain
 * Trigger Word (synthesis):** ? || Prezi ||
 * 14 Amanda Darabant || **Title**: Seneca Falls Convention: Expanding Women's Rights
 * Objective:** Students shoulbe able to expalin the effects the Seneca Falls Convention had on women rights.
 * Trigger Word (analysis):** Explain
 * Trigger Word (synthesis):** ? || Poster ||
 * 15 Gabrielle Schwartzmiller || **Title**: Literature in it's Past : The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
 * Objective**: Have an understanding of what Early American Author wrote This Legend and why, and compare and contrast the Disney Version of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and the Origional Version.
 * Trigger Word (analysis):** (compare)
 * Trigger Word (synthesis):** (handout) || Powerpoint ||
 * 16 Hannah Steele || **Title**: A childhood destroyed: Child labor in the 1800s
 * Objective**: Tell how child labor affected the industrial revolution
 * Trigger Word (analysis):** explain
 * Trigger Word (synthesis):** effect- how it affected the industrial revolution || Powerpoint ||
 * 17 Brian Ward || **Title**: The Potato Plague: Irish Potato Famine
 * Objective**: Students will be able to answer what caused the potatoes to be diseased,
 * Trigger Word (analysis):** Explain
 * Trigger Word (synthesis):** Conclude || PowerPoint ||
 * 18 Tegan Carr || **Title**: The Battle of the Alamo: Texas fight for independence.
 * Objective**: Evaluate why the Alamo was so important in the fight for Texas independence.
 * Trigger Word (analysis):**evaluate
 * Trigger Word (synthesis):** ? ||  ||
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