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As a culminating project, you will assemble
a Time Capsule for future generations that answers the unitâs essential
question, What significant events define your time? and will write an accompanying
essay which explains and defends your choices. Your Time Capsule will also
be presented and defended orally to your class.
To complete your Time Capsule:
1. Review your notes from our textbook, from
films and from seminars during the unit.
2. Review the Time Capsule rubric
requirements.
3. Brainstorm a list of key events.
For this project, ãeventsä pertains both to single
moments in history, like the JFK assassination, and to larger
movements that happened over time, like the Civil Rights Movement.
4. Choose ten events and choose an artifact to represent
each event.
Each artifact should be authentic or should be a facsimile
of an authentic artifact, not merely a symbol. For instance, the JFK assassination
could be represented by the banner headlines from the New
York Times on November 23, 1963, or a reproduction of a map of the
presidential parade route in Dallas. A drawing of a rifle shooting
out the stars in an American flag, although interestingly symbolic, would
NOT be an artifact.
5. In your notebook, place the ideas on a matrix
like the one below. Note that you should rank the events in order of significance.
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Event
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Justification for Inclusion of Event
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Artifact
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Rank
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6. Assemble and/or construct the artifacts.
7. Construct the Time Capsule. It can be made from anything
that can hold the ten items, such as a shoe box, oatmeal box, coffee can,
etc., but cannot exceed one cubic foot in volume.
8. Add a title and appropriate adornments to the outside
of the Time Capsule, such as illustrations, color, words, symbols or pictures
to reflect the two decades and make it visually appealing.
9. Write an essay which includes an introduction which
explores your understanding of the 80âs and 90âs, describes
each artifact, explaining the event it represents and justifying its inclusion
and rank, and has a conclusion which ties the essay together. Include a
bibliography.
10. Prepare your oral presentation by outlining your essay
and memorizing key points (A) or putting them on note cards (B/C)
11. Practice your oral presentation.
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