Tuesday, October 23, 2007

Gilded Age Documentary

This is a reminder that you and your group must do a storyboard for your documentary. This is due on Friday.Also you only have this Friday Oct.26 to do in- class recordings. You may come in before and after school any day this week to work on this. You also may work on this at home if you have the recording capability.We had 2 headsets stolen last Friday so this further limits our access to media tools. If anyone would like to return these it would be helpful.The projects will be presented on Mon.Oct.30 and 31 in class.I will use the rubric found at the end of the website.Your group will meet the first half of the lab session on Fri.Nov.1 to determine how the 24 points will be divided up as a percentage of who did the most work. This is the final grade for this quarter.All grades and extra credit go in on Friday and will be posted on Ed-line and sent to ICue.Also there will be no folder grade for this unit but rather you will need to hand in all flee-notes on readings and lectures and all worksheets for the Industrial unit. ALL WORK MUST BE DONE BY OCT.31

Monday, October 22, 2007

Online Textbook

If you did not sign up for the online textbook during lab at the beginning of the year, you can do that now by going to www.classzone.com/eservices and entering your activation code. The activiation codes are different for each class, and you can use the following:

3rd Hour: CLASS1063700
4th Hour: CLASS1951440
5th Hour: CLASS1172064
6th Hour: CLASS1337844
**Make sure you include the "CLASS" as part of the activation code**

You can begin viewing the chapter on the Industrial Period on page 228

Friday, October 12, 2007

The Gilded Age - Group Project

Beginning today, you will be working in a group of four to complete a project about the Gilded Age.
Click here to go to the Gilded Age webquest
The entire assignment can be found on this webquest, so if you have any questions, refer to the webquest page.

The only changes to the assignment are the following:
*Your group will NOT be creating a Powerpoint presentation. Instead, the final presentation will be done using VoiceThread. You will be learning how to use this on Tuesday.
*Your final presentation must be at least 5 minutes long, but no longer than 6 minutes.
*Your group will use a Wiki to keep all information about the project. The media person in your group will be responsible for printing your Wiki at the end of each classperiod and handing it into the teacher.
*The Study Guide portion of your project should also be on your Wiki. You will print the final version and hand it in on the day of your presentation.

The Wikispaces webpage is the following:
http://www.wikispaces.com/