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Ladies, for your project you will become leading documentarians on a research topic of World War II. You will utilize the resources in the library and computer lab to create your documentary.

There are 10 aspects of each group presentation: 1) The class will be broken into eight (8) small groups for your specific topic and four (4) ‘paired’ groups for your ‘paired’ topics. 2) Following the opening readings and lectures on World War II, each group will receive an article as an introduction to their topic. 3) Once the readings are complete, groups are to meet and discuss the theme(s) of their topic and generate a number of questions they hope to answer with their research. 4) As for your research: 5) Throughout the research phase of your project you must collaborate with your ‘paired’ group to ensure there is no redundancy. For this you are to create an outline of topics you will cover and compare your outline with your ‘paired’ group. 6) From the outline, each group will be responsible to convey their information as clear and concise as possible via a script, which will be used as the narration of the documentary. Your script will act as your research paper. You are to cite your findings in MLA formatting as you would in any other paper. 7) Each group is responsible for a presentation in the form of an imovie. Mrs. Swinski will be joining us during a class block to discuss/refresh using the imovie program andother computer tools. 8) Next you will need to compile a file of pictures and videos for the visual element of the documentary. 9) In the imovie you are to align images with your script, which will become your documentary. 10) Each member of the group must hand in a primary document with a one page paper explaining why they chose this particular document to support their research.
 * a. You must only use books, articles, primary documents and databases to compile your research. Wikipedia and ‘Google’ searches are unaccepta
 * b. You are to utilize library resources for the presentations: each group must use at least THREE reference books, TWO databases and TWO primary documents. You are not to rely on the Internet and solely the Internet for your project.
 * c. Your research should include the following:
 * 1. Brief summary (including key dates)
 * 2. Principal players
 * 3. Key events
 * 4. Major policies/problems/programs
 * 5. Outcome/reflection on Society
 * a. You will create a folder and keep all images in said folder for assemblage of documentary.
 * b. You must cite all images in the order they appear on the screen in a word document by their URL.
 * c. When your movie is finished you will convert it into Quick time and upload it onto School Tube.
 * d. You will then grab the "Embed" code to place your movie on this wikispace for presentation in class.

Ladies, through this project you will become the expert on one aspect of World War II and through your classmates' presentations you will become familiar with many aspects of World War II. You will also have the opportunity to hone your technology skills as you use iMovie to create your project.

This project designed and implemented by Karalyn McGrorty, teacher of Social Studies for [|Mount Saint Joseph Academy]. Wikispaces design and technical assistance furnished by Carol Siwinski, Curricular Technology Coordinator.

November, 2011