American Storyboards Guidelines and Grading



American Storyboards Guidelines and Grading

From the end of the Civil War in 1865 until the turn of the century in 1900, America underwent significant changes that transformed it into a modern industrial nation. Your assignment will be to tell one part of the story of this transformation through words and visuals in storyboard form. Storyboards are used by filmmakers to plan out the shots that they will use in their movies. In many ways, they are similar to graphic novels in comic strips. This approach will also give us the ability to cover a significant amount of material (four chapters from your textbook) in a short amount of time. The directions below provide you with information on what you will need to be successful in producing your assigned storyboard.

Directions

1. Topic selection/research: On January 26th, you and your partner will be asked to commit to working with one of the subtopics from the list provided on the reverse side of this page. Once you have selected your subtopic, you will need to consult the textbook for information on your topic. You'll want to pay special attention to the terms listed next to your subtopics. These terms need to appear and be fully explained in the storyboard that you produce.

2. Storyboard design/production: You and your partner will have significant class time during the week to design and produce your final storyboard. Storyboards must include the following elements:

1. relevant title

2. 6 panels with both visuals and text captions/banners

3. inclusion and explanation of all terms listed for the assigned textbook section

terms should be written in bold and/or a different color from other text

4. title and panels fill an 18 x 24 sheet of construction paper

3. Storyboard gallery: Completed storyboards must be ready for viewing at the beginning of class on February 1st. Students will then be given an opportunity to view/read all storyboards and completed guide that will help to prepare them for the unit test.

Grading

The completed storyboard constitutes both a classwork and a project grade, as it will require both class time and at home preparation to be successfully completed. Your grade will be based on the rubric below.

1. Students produce a superior quality storyboard that has all required elements, including substantive details and creative artwork, clearly describes required terms, all visuals and text are relevant, comprehensive, and informative. ---100%

2. As above, but could use additional substantive details for clarity/comprehension.

---90%

3. Good effort; final product shows quality and attention to detail but may need further explanation of terms and context; visuals could use more creativity/attention to detail.

---80%

4. As above, may be missing up to one required term and/or panel.

---75%

5. May need more substantive detail and/or attention to visuals; product provides an adequate treatment of the assigned topic area, but may be missing more than one panel/term.

---70%

6. Submitted late (after start of class on due date) but not after the second date of viewing; final product may be missing significant elements/details.

---65%

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Approved Storyboard Topics

Topic (required terms listed below) Textbook Chapter/Section(s)

*The Plight of Native Americans Ch. 13, section 1 (pp. 408-14)

terms: Sand Creek Massacre, Treaty of Fort Laramie, Sitting Bull, General Custer,

Battle of Little Big Horn, Dawes Act, assimilation, buffalo destruction, Battle of Wounded Knee

*Cattle Trails & Cowboys Ch. 13, section 1 (pp. 414-17)

terms: longhorns, vaqueros, cowboys, Joseph McCoy, Chisholm Trail, long drive,

Joseph Glidden, barbed wire

*Homesteaders Ch. 13, section 2 (pp. 420-24)

terms: Homestead Act, homesteaders, exodusters, closing of the frontier, soddy, reaper, steel plow,

Morrill Act, bonanza farms, mortgage

*The Populist Movement Ch. 13, section 3 (pp. 425-29)

terms: The Grange, Farmers’ Alliances, Populism, Panic of 1893, bimetallism, gold standard,

Gold Bugs, Silverites, William Jennings Bryan, Election of 1896

*Inventions and Industry Ch. 14, section 1 (pp. 436-39)

terms: Edwin L. Drake, oil, Bessemer process, steel, Brooklyn Bridge, skyscrapers,

Thomas Edison, electricity, typewriter, Alexander Graham Bell, telephone

*The Age of Railroads Ch. 14, section 2 (pp. 442-46)

terms: Transcontinental Railroad, time zones, George M. Pullman, Credit Mobilier scandal,

Granger laws, Munn v. Illinois, Interstate Commerce Act

*Big Business Ch. 14, section 3 (pp. 447-50)

terms: Andrew Carnegie, vertical integration, horizontal integration, Social Darwinism,

John D. Rockefeller, Standard Oil Company, “robber barons”, Sherman Antitrust Act

*The Labor Movement Ch. 14, section 3 (pp. 450-55)

terms: National Labor Union (NLU), Knights of Labor, American Federation of Labor (AFL), Samuel Gompers, Eugene V, Debs, Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), “Big Bill” Haywood, Haymarket Riot, Homestead Strike, Pullman Strike

*The New Immigrants Ch. 15, section 1 (pp. 460-67)

terms: Chinese Railroad Labor, motives of immigration, the transatlantic journey, Ellis Island, Angel Island, melting pot, nativism, Chinese Exclusion Act, Gentlemen’s Agreement

*Urbanization Ch. 15, section 2 (pp. 468-72)

terms: , Urbanization, Americanization, tenements, mass transit, water supply, sanitation, crime, fire,

Social Gospel movement, settlement houses, Jane Addams

*Science, Urban Life, and Mass Culture Ch. 16, section 1(pp. 482-87)

Ch. 16, section 4 (pp. 498-503)

terms: skyscrapers, electric transit, city planning, Wright Brothers, George Eastman,

amusement parks, baseball, newspapers, Mark Twain, department stores, mail order catalogs, vaudeville, ragtime

*African-Americans Ch. 16, section 2 (pp. 488-91)

Ch. 16, section 3 (pp. 492-97)

terms: Booker T. Washington, Tuskegee Institute, W.E.B. Du Bois, Niagara Movement,

Ida B. Wells, poll tax, grandfather clause, segregation, Jim Crow laws, Plessy v. Ferguson

AMERICAN STORYBOARDS: GALLERY NOTES Name: _____________________________

Please use the time provided in class today and during the next class period (half of the block) to take notes on the storyboards produced by your classmates. Pay special attention to terms in bold (the same ones listed on your American Storyboards assignment sheet). You might even want to summarize your own storyboard since you will be able to use this set of notes on the upcoming “Industrial America” unit test. The completed gallery notes will be turned in with the unit test and will constitute a class work credit.

|The Plight of Native Americans |

|Who is Sitting Bull? |

|Who was killed at the Battle of Little Big Horn? |

|What happened at Sand Creek? |

|What is the Dawes Act? |

|What is the idea of blending Native Americans into American culture? |

|Cattle Trails & Cowboys |

|What was the type of cattle used on the long drives? |

|Where did the term cowboys originate from? |

|What did Joseph McCoy do? |

|Who invented barbed wire? |

|Homesteaders |

|What act provided farmers with free land from the Federal Government? |

|What are Homesteaders? |

|What is the term for African-Americans who left the south to settle and farm in the Great Plains? |

|What act created agricultural colleges in the mid-west? |

|The Populist Movement |

|What group of people are most closely associated with the Grange Movement? |

|What is the main focus of Populism? |

|What is the idea of backing paper money with both silver and gold? |

|What is the Gold standard? |

|Who is William Jennings Bryan? |

|Inventions & Industry |

|Who perfected a means to retrieve oil from the ground? |

|The Bessemer process is used for what? |

|What did the stronger steel help build (it helped with the growth of cities)? |

|Who invented the light bulb |

|Who invented the typewriter? |

|Alexander Graham Bell is most closely associated with which invention? |

|The Age of Railroads |

|What was the Transcontinental Railroad? |

|Time zones were introduced to benefit which group? |

|Who was George M. Pullman? |

|What was the Credit Mobilier scandal? |

|Big Business |

|Andrew Carnegie is most closely associated with which industry? |

|What business strategy did Andrew Carnegie use? |

|John D. Rockefeller is most closely associated with which industry? |

|What is a “Robber baron”? |

|What act outlawed the formation of trusts? |

|What is Social Darwinism? |

|The Labor Movement |

|National Labor Union (NLU) was formed by which group? |

|Who is Samuel Gompers? |

|What is the Haymarket Riot? |

|What is the Homestead Strike? |

|The New Immigrants |

|A new immigrant coming in from Europe would go through which place? |

|A new immigrant coming in from Asia would go through which place? |

|What does the term Melting pot mean? |

|What is the idea that America is better than everyone else and there should be a limit on immigration? |

|What is the Gentlemen’s Agreement? |

|Urbanization |

|What is the idea of Urbanization? |

|What is the process of assimilating people into a dominant culture? |

|What were some of the problems w/ Urbanization? |

|What is a Settlement house? |

|Who created Hull House? |

|What was the Social Gospel Movement fighting for? |

|Science, Urban Life, and Mass Culture |

|Who invented the first airplane? |

|What did George Eastman invent? |

|What different recreational activities were available to people living in the cities? |

|What did Mark Twain write? |

|African-Americans |

|Who was the founder of the Tuskegee institute? |

|What did W.E.B. Du Bois do? |

|Who was the women that became a civil rights activist and fought against lynching in the South? |

|What is Segregation? |

|What laws were created to separate the races? |

|What court case established the idea of separate but equal? |

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