US History - Cereal Box That Have Changed American History ...



[pic]Assigned Tuesday, November 18 2014 - Due December 5 2014

President Assigned -- __________________________________________________________

Students will be re-designing a cereal box to honor a president from American history that has created CHANGE.

• The first step in the assignment is to choose a President. Students will randomly choose a President from the teacher.

• Students should then conduct research on this person, event, or movement using their class notes, their textbooks, and other outside resources (both internet and print resources).

• Students should then begin re-designing a cereal box to honor that person, event, or movement using the following guidelines:

o The cereal box that you re-design should be covered with white or light-colored paper.

o The front of the box should include the name of the cereal – a creative name that somehow relates to your topic. It should include an appropriately-sized picture of person. This can be printed from an online source, photocopied, or hand-drawn. It MUST also include other slogans, catch-phrases, or other comments that relate to your figure. (For example, one dealing with FDR might say “now available in two flavors – First and Second New Deal” – or one on Woodrow Wilson might say “now includes 14 essential vitamins and minerals” in reference to the 14 Points.)

o The back of the box should include the most detailed information about your figure. Basically, you are writing a historical essay on your person. The essay should include the following components:

✓ It must include a small biography of your president.

✓ Discuss the major events or incidents of your president’s term)

✓ Describe a change in the United States that resulted from the efforts of the

president.

✓ The back may include some small pictures, but should mostly be a two-column historical/biographical essay, written in a 12 point font, single spaced and fully-justified.

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o One side panel should include at least one interesting quote from your person, event, or movement and a brief contextual background as to when and why the particular quote was given, or to what event the quote refers.

o One side panel should include some random trivial facts about your president – important relatives, funny facts, strange facts about the person’s death, interesting information about a political campaign, etc.

o The box top should include some kind of reference to the most significant event in your person, technological invention, or movement. (The thing that made your president significant). This reference could be in the form or a slogan or other brief statement – but it should be brief. It is to be used as a “grabber” to make your reader interested in reading the historical essay on the back of your box.

o The box bottom should include your name, your class period, and should also list any and all sources that you used during your research.

Each person has to present their nomination speech (short) as to why they deserve the award (based on information on your cereal box), and they have to have an acceptance speech ready in case they win (who they’d like to thank, etc.)

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