WWI Poster Project
WWII Project
Assigned: Jan 20th Tuesday
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.
• You will display your 5 visuals on a poster board using multi media format in an organized and clear way. Include captions or part of your reports to explain the visuals. Be creative! Make your project unique and interesting! You will turn both a typed paper and a multi-media presentation through GoogleDoc
• Once you have your topic, you must research this topic using at least FIVE credible sources.
• You will write a 1-2page 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!
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 and Poster Project |
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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. | |
|50 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. | |
|20 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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|15 points | | | | |
Total points: ______/100
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