WWI Poster Project
WWII Project – LA/SS
Assigned: Jan 21ST wEDNESDAY
Due: Feb 20th Friday
Directions/Requirements:
• Choose one of the possible 32 research topics (listed on the back) for the WWII unit. If there is a topic that you would like to research that is not on the list, please see me and get it approved.
• You will write a 1-2 page paper
• You must cite your sources in a “Works Cited” page and cite your sources in your paper if you use direct quotes, paraphrase, or use another author’s idea.
• You will also have to find at least 5 supporting visuals for your topic. These can include (but are not limited to): photographs, graphs, pictures, original artwork (created by you), timelines, news articles, posters, primary source documents, maps, etc. The visuals MUST supplement your project topic. They MUST help the reader/viewer of your project to further understand what your topic is and why it is significant.
• Once you have your topic, you must research this topic using at least FIVE credible sources.
• In Language Arts, You will write a 1-2 page paper that answers these research questions
• In your research, you should explain the following:
• to define the topic,
• explain what it is,
• explain what its SIGNIFICANCE was to the WWII era.
• Why is it an important topic?
• Analyze the effect that your topic had on the war and what impact it has had on the world today.
• Be sure to include the facts that you found interesting!
• In Social Studies, You will create a form of propaganda that either supports your topic or fights against it.
• Your project can take the form of one of the following:
• Poster created on poster board
• Commercial – video recording for TV commercial or voice recording for radio commercial
• Billboard advertisement created on large butcher paper
• Political Cartoon on oversized paper
• If you have another idea for a form of propaganda, see your teacher for permission
• Brief answers to the Language Arts research questions are typed in a bulleted list and attached to your propaganda project
• The Works Cited page created with your research paper is will need to be attached to your propaganda project as well.
Possible WWII Research Paper Topics
|War in Europe |America’s Influence in WWII |
|Stalingrad |Wartime Era Songs |
|Invasion of Normandy (D-Day) |All-American Girls Professional baseball |
|Battle of Britain |league |
|Blitzkreig |North African Campaign |
|Victory in Europe Day |Pearl Harbor |
|Fascism |American War Propaganda |
|Nazism |Dwight D Eisenhower |
|Winston Churchill |George C Marshall |
|Battle of the Bulge |George Patton |
|Gestapo |Douglas MacArthur |
|Benito Mussolini |Tuskegee Airmen |
|Joseph Stalin |Ira Hayes |
|Adolf Hitler |Lend Lease Agreement |
|The Munich Pact |Neutrality Act of 1939 |
|The Nazi-Soviet Pact |Women’s Army Corps- WAC |
|U-Boat |War Bond Drives |
|The Invasion of Poland |Women in the Workforce |
| |Japanese Internment Camps |
|War in Japan |German Internment Camps |
|Navajo Code Talkers |Franklin Delano Roosevelt |
|Manhattan Project |Eleanor Roosevelt |
|Iwo Jima |Charles A Lindbergh |
|Okinawa |Doris Miller |
|Hiroshima |Arizona’s Training Bases (Luke Airforce Base/Davis Montham) |
|Nagasaki |Braceros |
|Japan’s Aggressive Search for Resources |Rationing |
|Victory in Japan Day | |
|Battle of Midway | |
|Battle of Guadalcanal |Holocaust |
|Battle of Leyte Gulf |Poston |
|Hideki Tojo |Kristallnacht |
|Kamikaze Pilots |Auschwitz |
|The Bataan Death March |Dachau |
| |Warsaw Ghetto Uprising |
|Other Topics | |
|Airplanes of WWII (chose 3 or 4) | |
|Vehicles used in WWII (chose 3 or 4) | |
|Weapons used in WWII (chose 3 or 4) | |
**Any other topic that you wish to research, with Approval**
Scoring/Grading
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|Research Report : WWII Research Paper – Language Arts |
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|Student Name: ________________________________________ |
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|CATEGORY | Full points |¾ points | ½ points |¼ points |
|Quality of Information |Information clearly relates |Information clearly relates |Information clearly relates |Information has |
| |to the main topic. |to the main topic. It |to the main topic. Not all |little or nothing to |
| |Information answers the |answers the required |research questions were |do with the main |
| |required research questions |research questions, but |answered or they were not |topic. |
| |thoroughly and discusses the|could have been done more |done thoroughly. | |
|20 points |significance/importance of |thoroughly. Discusses the |Importance/Significance not | |
| |the topic to the WWI era and|importance/significance in |discussed or discussed | |
| |to today. |an adequate manor. |minimally. | |
|Sources |All sources (information and|All sources (information and|All sources (information and |Some sources are not |
| |graphics) are accurately |graphics) are accurately |graphics) are accurately |accurately |
| |documented in the desired |documented, but a few are |documented, but many are not |documented. |
| |format. |not in the desired format. |in the desired format. | |
|10 points | | | | |
|Mechanics |No grammatical, spelling or |Almost no grammatical, |A few grammatical spelling, |Many grammatical, |
| |punctuation errors. |spelling or punctuation |or punctuation errors. |spelling, or |
| | |errors | |punctuation errors. |
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|10 points | | | | |
Total points: ______/50
Scoring/Grading
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|Research Report : WWII Propaganda Project – Social Studies |
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|Student Name: ________________________________________ |
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|CATEGORY | Full points |¾ points | ½ points |¼ points |0 points |
|Quality of Propaganda |Images/Script clearly |Images/Script relates to the|Images/Script somewhat |Images/Script has |No project attempted.|
| |relates to the main topic. |main topic. It is apparent |relates to the main topic. It|little or nothing to | |
| |It is apparent to the viewer|to the viewer that the |is apparent to the viewer |do with the main | |
| |that the author took time |author spent an adequate |that the author did not spend|topic. It is apparent| |
| |and effort to create their |amount of time to create |adequate time or effort to |to the viewer that | |
|20 points |project. Includes a Wow |their project. |create their project. |the author scrambled | |
| |Factor. | | |to assemble their | |
| | | | |project last minute. | |
Research Questions are attached to Propaganda
10 points |All 6 Research Questions are answered in a bulleted list on the back of their propaganda project. | |Some of the research questions are answered in a bulleted list on the back of their propaganda project. | |No project attempted, or no research answers are provided on the back of the propaganda project. | |Works Cited is attached to Propaganda
10 points | Works Cited page is attached to the propaganda project. | |Works Cited page is attached but incomplete. | |No project attempted, or the works cited page is not attached to the propaganda project. | |
Total points: ______/50
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