World War Two - Research Projects

Week of November 30th

This week, we're going to be doing a little bit of research about World War Two.  We have several book club options that were written about different aspects of World War Two.  In this assignment, we'll be working on a few skills:
- Learning enough about a topic to decide if you want to read more about it.
- Choose an area to focus your research on - choose subtopics
- Write a summary of your research using Step Up to Writing
- Use Diigo to annotate your research

Topics:

African Americans in WW2
Japanese Internment Camps
Heroes of the Holocaust
Creating the Atomic Bomb
Finding Nazis after WW2
Franklin Roosevelt

Grading Rubric

6 Word Summaries

Today we will be learning how to comment and reply on the blog.  You will be taking some time to read, either your free choice book or a magazine.  Then you will create a 6 word summary of what you read. Give the title of what you read. You will put that summary in a comment on this blog.

Example:
Title:  The Giver
They think it's perfect - it's not!

Biography Summaries

  

 

You are going to be taking some time to learn more about your choice of one of these four influential people who each have an interesting story to tell.  Click on their names below to begin the process.  You will then read an article and watch a video about that person.  You will use that information to write a summary of their life.  The summary will be graded with the summary rubric which is a part of the worksheet.  

Why are we doing this?  Biographies of all 4 of these individuals are book club choices.

Emmett Till

Malala Yousafzai

Steve Jobs

Louis Zamperini