Research Assignment
Directions: After receiving your topic and doing a quick overview of the information available, divide the topic into workable sections for each group member to research. All members must participate in one aspect of the research and write up his/her own summary to turn in at the completion of the presentation. (Directions for the writing assignment are at the bottom.) The members will then organize their research into a logical presentation. The division of your topic is important because each part needs to be different enough so as not to be repetitious. All members must participate in the presentation. Since your audience may have absolutely no knowledge about your topic, you may need to start with very basic information. You should probably include any history or background of the topic as an introduction, the important, relevant points of the topic as the main focus, and a summary of important information as a conclusion. REMEMBER TO CITE YOUR SOURCES on both your written summary and any visuals you use. That means that as you research and take notes, you must keep track of your sources. If you don’t, you might not remember where the information came from and make more work for yourself as you go back looking for the sources later on. Don’t forget that books can be sources, too. You should not rely entirely on your iPad!
You should try to be as creative as possible in your presentation. You can create posters, slideshows, and/or maps or graphs but do not spend too much time on fancy visuals or looking at pictures. Any pictures, maps, charts, etc. should enhance your information, not be the main focus. I do not want you to use videos unless you have my approval for them in advance. The information is your primary concern. Keep whatever you do appropriate for the subject matter. Your group presentation should be approximately 6-8 minutes in length and divided fairly equally between each member. Going a little long is better than being too short.
Grading: There will be two grades, one for the group and one for each individual. The group grade will be the same for everyone in the group. Grades will be based on overall presentation, preparation, teamwork, and the information. Individual grades will be based on the same things, but it will also include a self-evaluation, a group evaluation, and your written submission. (More information on presentation grading will be given later.) I am estimating this assignment to be worth 75 points, 25 for the group presentation, 25 for the individual presentation, and 25 for the written work. Presentation due dates will be randomly selected and posted. Groups not ready to present on the assigned date will be deducted one letter grade for every day late. All groups must be ready to present on the first day because we will move on to the next group if the assigned group is not ready.
Topics to be assigned are as follows:
Auschwitz Concentration Camp
Bombing of Pearl Harbor and U.S. involvement
Dr. Josef Mengele
What happened to the Franks, Van Daans, and Dussel (biographical info)?
Japanese internment camps is U.S.
D-Day
Assassination attempts on Hitler
Commonly asked questions about the Holocaust
Concentration camp victims after the liberation
What happened to the people who helped hide the Franks?
Directions for the writing assignment to be turned in on the first day of oral presentations:
Each person in the group will write a well-organized paragraph summarizing the research that he/she did. This should include a topic sentence, three primary points followed by secondary support, and a concluding statement. THIS IS NOT SOMETHING THAT YOU WOULD READ AS YOUR ORAL PRESENTATION. It should be different than everyone else’s in your group. It should be done on your own. It should follow all the rules of punctuation that we have discussed this year. You must list your sources and document them correctly. Grading will be based on organization, content, punctuation, grammar, and documentation. Your final draft should be indented and written neatly in ink on loose-leaf paper or typed.
publication. Print.
If there is no city given, you put N.p. which stands for no publisher. Use N.d. if there is no date of publication. If you have other questions, ask. Sometimes the publisher and the website might be the same. If that happens, you write it twice, but as the publisher, it would not be underlined/italicized.
Directions for presentation:
Your group must be ready to present on the first day of presentation whether that is your assigned day or not. If people are absent or other groups are not ready, we will move on to the next group. As you present, I will be looking for the following:
Directions: After receiving your topic and doing a quick overview of the information available, divide the topic into workable sections for each group member to research. All members must participate in one aspect of the research and write up his/her own summary to turn in at the completion of the presentation. (Directions for the writing assignment are at the bottom.) The members will then organize their research into a logical presentation. The division of your topic is important because each part needs to be different enough so as not to be repetitious. All members must participate in the presentation. Since your audience may have absolutely no knowledge about your topic, you may need to start with very basic information. You should probably include any history or background of the topic as an introduction, the important, relevant points of the topic as the main focus, and a summary of important information as a conclusion. REMEMBER TO CITE YOUR SOURCES on both your written summary and any visuals you use. That means that as you research and take notes, you must keep track of your sources. If you don’t, you might not remember where the information came from and make more work for yourself as you go back looking for the sources later on. Don’t forget that books can be sources, too. You should not rely entirely on your iPad!
You should try to be as creative as possible in your presentation. You can create posters, slideshows, and/or maps or graphs but do not spend too much time on fancy visuals or looking at pictures. Any pictures, maps, charts, etc. should enhance your information, not be the main focus. I do not want you to use videos unless you have my approval for them in advance. The information is your primary concern. Keep whatever you do appropriate for the subject matter. Your group presentation should be approximately 6-8 minutes in length and divided fairly equally between each member. Going a little long is better than being too short.
Grading: There will be two grades, one for the group and one for each individual. The group grade will be the same for everyone in the group. Grades will be based on overall presentation, preparation, teamwork, and the information. Individual grades will be based on the same things, but it will also include a self-evaluation, a group evaluation, and your written submission. (More information on presentation grading will be given later.) I am estimating this assignment to be worth 75 points, 25 for the group presentation, 25 for the individual presentation, and 25 for the written work. Presentation due dates will be randomly selected and posted. Groups not ready to present on the assigned date will be deducted one letter grade for every day late. All groups must be ready to present on the first day because we will move on to the next group if the assigned group is not ready.
Topics to be assigned are as follows:
Auschwitz Concentration Camp
Bombing of Pearl Harbor and U.S. involvement
Dr. Josef Mengele
What happened to the Franks, Van Daans, and Dussel (biographical info)?
Japanese internment camps is U.S.
D-Day
Assassination attempts on Hitler
Commonly asked questions about the Holocaust
Concentration camp victims after the liberation
What happened to the people who helped hide the Franks?
Directions for the writing assignment to be turned in on the first day of oral presentations:
Each person in the group will write a well-organized paragraph summarizing the research that he/she did. This should include a topic sentence, three primary points followed by secondary support, and a concluding statement. THIS IS NOT SOMETHING THAT YOU WOULD READ AS YOUR ORAL PRESENTATION. It should be different than everyone else’s in your group. It should be done on your own. It should follow all the rules of punctuation that we have discussed this year. You must list your sources and document them correctly. Grading will be based on organization, content, punctuation, grammar, and documentation. Your final draft should be indented and written neatly in ink on loose-leaf paper or typed.
- Correct Documentation for books would follow this pattern:
publication. Print.
- Correct Documentation for websites would follow this pattern:
If there is no city given, you put N.p. which stands for no publisher. Use N.d. if there is no date of publication. If you have other questions, ask. Sometimes the publisher and the website might be the same. If that happens, you write it twice, but as the publisher, it would not be underlined/italicized.
Directions for presentation:
Your group must be ready to present on the first day of presentation whether that is your assigned day or not. If people are absent or other groups are not ready, we will move on to the next group. As you present, I will be looking for the following:
- Does the material and the order in which it is presented make sense?
- Is it repetitious?
- Is the time and material divided evenly among the members?
- Does each speaker know his/her material?
- Has the presentation been rehearsed so the volume, articulation, eye contact, and overall poise is good?