Projects!

Government

This week students in Government will be working on their projects so there should be no homework. The live debate will be During 1st (8am) or 4th (1pm) On Thursday.


History

Students will be finishing Unit 1 and beginning their first project. They will be filming a news report about an important event in the Civil War. Below is the Project description and timeline along with their rubric.

Students will create a news report about an event or battle relating to the Civil war. Each student will write a script, then each group will combine those scripts into one 2 minute video about the event. The students will write the script, star in the report, and direct the magic (with help from Mr. Deegan)

Each student will turn in a script/ news report relating to their event. They will receive their individual grade for the project on their script. The Group grade will be on the final video they create.

9/19	9/20	9/21	9/22
Students will make a list of events that were important to the civil war. They will narrow down the list to 10 major events	Students will choose their group’s event out of a hat. Students will begin researching the important information about their event. And writing their rough drafts	Students will critique each other's rough drafts and begin working on their final drafts of their scripts	Students will finish and turn in their script final drafts
9/26	9/27	9/28	9/29
Students in their groups will create one script for their video using their scripts to help create a final version. Student will be assigned a role	Students will  begin shooting their videos each group has 30 minutes to film their report. Once they are done they will quietly edit said video.	Final edits and shots will be done for their videos. Students will make sure their videos are in a form that can be viewed in Mr. martin’s class.	Students will show their videos to their parents, other classes, and the whole school in a viewing party during 3rd period.

Civil War News Project Rubric

	Exceeds Standard 20	Meets Standard 15	Below Standard 10
Understanding Format	Adherence to the format of a script. Script was realistic	Some adherence to the script. Script was somewhat realistic.	There was little adherence to the format or script was not realistic
Writing Conventions	No spelling, punctuation, capitalization, or grammar errors. Skillfully constructed ideas.	1-3 spelling, punctuation, capitalization, or grammar errors. Well constructed ideas.	Numerous spelling, punctuation, capitalization, and grammar errors. Poorly constructed ideas.
Understanding of the politics of the Civil War	Student shows Understanding of both sides of the arguments and ideas that lead to war	Student shows some Understanding of both sides of the arguments and ideas that lead to war	Student had little understanding of the reasons for the Civil war.
Knowledge of the facts of the Civil War	Student shows great knowledge of the facts of their event	Student shows some knowledge of the facts of their event	There are several errors in the facts of the event.
Critical Thinking	Self Review shows honest reflection and growth. Shows the emotions, motivations controversies, historical implications, and connections to the 21st century of their event.	Self review shows some honest reflection and some growth. Shows mild understanding of emotions, motivations, controversies, implications and connections of their event.	Self review shows no reflection and little growth. Shows little understanding of emotions motivations controversies, implications or connections of their event.

Total______/100