The focus of the unit is Social Injustice during The Great Depression. Your question, slides, and presentation should focus on the social injustice aspect of your topic.
Social Injustice Definition: Social injustice is a situation when some unfair practices are being carried in the society. Whatever unjust is happening is usually against the law and it might not be something that is considered a moral practice. Basically, social injustice occurs when the equals are treated in an unequal way and the unequals are treated in an equal way.
Your job is to research how the time period (The Great Depression) reflects social injustices on your assigned topic (“weak social group” during this time period). Topics will include the Elderly, Women, African-Americans, and the Mentally Disabled.
Sample questions would include:
What social injustices did your “group” face?
How was your “group” viewed/treated during this period?
How does this treatment differ from today?
There are so many factors that influence the writing of a story that we must, as readers, always consider the context within which the book is written. The setting (time and place) matters, the author's experiences matter, the current events of the time matter...
When examining Of Mice and Men it is crucial to understand this context and have adequate background knowledge to support your reading. For this project, you will gain that knowledge through research. Each student has been assigned a "weak one" social group to research: the Old, Women, African-Americans, and the Mentally Disabled.
*** You and your group members must come up with a Research Question: ***
YOU MUST GET YOUR RESEARCH QUESTION APPROVED BEFORE BEGINNING YOUR RESEARCH
Women:
Old/Elderly:
Mentally Disabled:
African-American:
*** These are the only sites you should be using for your research.
Remember- NO Wikipedia, NO blogs, NO answer sites-
these are not authoritative sites. ***
You must include the following in your Google Slide Presentation:
Title Page with Topic and Group Members Names
Page with Group Created Research Question
Table of Contents Slide
10 Content Slides with a title and text--must have information summarizing your research and IN YOUR OWN WORDS
5 Content Slides with direct important quotes from your research. You must also use parenthetical citation in these slides. After each quote, you must explaining the importance of the quote in your research
Summary Slide-summarizing all of the information in your presentation and answering the research question
Properly Formatted Works Cited Slide (at least 2 of the approved websites above and 1 e-book or database article)
Total Slides in Presentation-20
Meaningful Pictures/Graphics/Images must be used throughout
YOU MUST USE GOOGLE SLIDES FOR THIS ASSIGNMENT--NO POWERPOINT
YOU AND YOUR GROUP MEMBERS MUST WORK TOGETHER USING A SHARED DOCUMENT (ALSO YOU MUST SHARE THE DOCUMENT WITH ME)
**Each group will present their Google Slide project to the class (5 minutes minimum/8 minutes maximum)
**Remember the focus of our unit is on Social Injustice--so make sure your slides and presentation focus on the social injustice aspect of the topic!!
Directions for creating a Works Cited page in MyBib
No login needed from school.
Off campus? Email sevje@cpsed.net for password.
