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=The Mather Tribute =

World Studies: 1950s to present
You will put into a group in order to write a wiki-newspaper. Your group's wiki-newspaper will focus in on a decade (ie. 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s) or a continent ( Africa, Asia , Europe , or the Americas ). You will be working in placing your information into a wiki site in Ms. Remess’s computer class. Your wiki site will be locked at the end of the day on Wednesday, May 28, meaning nobody will be able to enter information into the wiki site after the deadline! Format: ** Your wiki-newspaper should be divided up into ** four sections **. The three of the four sections must be one of the five ideas that shaped the world: Nationalism, Imperialism, Industrialism, Communism, and Internationalism, one section can be random // …………………………………………………... //// ………………………....Articles in these sections can focus in on Historic Leaders/Headliners ,Inventions/Science, Travel/Geography, Trade/Money/Economics, Arts/Entertainment, Food/Agriculture, Classified/Advertisements, Advertising, and/or Culture/Religion of the appropriate time frames. // __ Each section must have at least four articles (at least 3 paragraphs per article, at least 4 sentences per paragraph) and two pictures. __ Grading: ** The grade will be given to you all as a group, and a group assessment sheet will be given to each of you at the end of the project so that you can rate your fellow group members. In order to help you all function as a group, you should assign each person a task, or section of the wiki-newspaper. Spelling and grammar will be calculated into your grade. This is a major project that will be worth 50 points = 100%. The wiki-newspaper itself is worth a total of 80%. Your other 20% will come with a presentation. It will be graded on the following basis.

** ||> **4%** || .. ||> ** Section 1 = ** ||> 20% ||  ||> ** Total = 16 Articles ** || ** ||> **4%** ||  ||> ** Section 2 = ** ||> 20% ||   ||> ** 8 Pictures ** || ** ||> 4% ||  ||> ** Section 3 = ** ||> 20% ||   ||>   || ** ||> 4% ||  ||> ** Section 4 ** = ||> 20% ||   ||>   || ** ||> 2% ||  ||> ** Presentation **= ||> 20% ||   ||>   || ** ||> 2% ||  ||> ** Total = ** ||> 100% |||| = 50 Points || Section 1 = ** ||> **20%** ||  ||>   ||>   ||   ||>   ||
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We will begin presentations on Thursday, May 29. Your presentations can be anything, such as teaching the class or a short skit (I prefer skits/plays – possible extra credit) about the culture or an event about the civilization that is in your wiki-newspaper. SOURCES: ** All sources must be documented at the bottom of the article. If I find any article in the wiki-newspaper that is plagiarized (copied word for word), I will give the whole group a zero. Use the following as an example of how to properly document your sources: BOOKS - Author, __Book Title__, Publisher, City: Year, Pages. Richard Bennett, __The Black and Tans__, E. Hulton, London : 1959, p. 21-26. INTERNET - Pellegrino, Joseph. Home page. 16 Dec. 1998. 1 Oct. 1999 <[| http://www.english.eku.edu /pellegrino/personal.htm]>. Your wiki-newspaper is due Thursday, May 29, and your presentations will begin that same day.
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