History Project #1 Due Thursday, October 22 Students are to design a project about a person, place, event, invention, etc., from the time period we are studying, from the end of the Civil War (1865) to the turn of the century and the end of World War I (1919). You can make a poster, a model, a PowerPoint presentation, a video, or anything that helps you teach the class about your subject in an interesting way. If you think school is boring, this is your chance to spice it up. You’ll be giving a short presentation of your project to the class. Your goal is to teach them about your topic. IMPORTANT NOTE – This is not a written report. You need to tell the class about it, not read a report to them. You may type headings and short descriptions of pictures, but no long paragraphs should be on your project. A PowerPoint presentation should have no more than a few short points on a slide, and preferably a picture or graphic or something colorful on each slide, not just lots of words. Also, you may not print a page from the internet and stick it on a poster. You may not copy words from the internet and paste into a PowerPoint. You will lose points if you use any words whose meaning you don’t know (and we will ask you to tell us what the big words mean).

Index cards are a good idea. You should write notes to guide you, but not write out long paragraphs to read. Your presentation should be no more than a minute or two long, so stick to the important stuff. It’s important Teddy Roosevelt was president and got the Panama Canal built, but we don’t care too much about his birthday or his mother’s name. After Sunday, October 11, your Google Apps password will be scps plus your new 5-digit pin, same as the password to the computers at school. Only one person in each class may do a particular subject, so you may be asked to pick again if a topic is taken. If more than one person asks on the same day, we’ll find a way to randomly decide. We can’t all do the Titanic.

History Projects are due Thursday, October 22, and will be presented to the class that day. Late projects will lose 10 points per day. This whole page, along with the topics list, is on the class website and shared on the email going out today.

We will discuss this page and start picking topics on Friday, so try to come Friday with a few different ideas of what you might like to do. If you're picking a popular topic like the Titanic, make sure you have two or three other choices ready. If you have an idea that's not on the list, ask me about it.

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Cut the paper on the dotted line and return the bottom to Mr. Kessler, or reply to Mr. Kessler's email to say you've seen it.. I have seen the History Project paper and noted the due date . ______Kid’s First and Last Name ______Mommy’s* Signature

*or Daddy, Grandpa, Uncle Fred, or whoever is responsible for insuring you seek excellence in education. Project Topic Possibilities These are some ideas for topics for your first project. They cover the time period from immediately after the Civil War through the end of World War I. There are many more possibilities. Other topics not listed below are acceptable, but must be cleared with your teacher first.

Native Americans Inventors Disasters Sports Alexander Graham Bell Chicago Fire 1872 Jim Thorpe (football+) Thomas Edison Johnstown Flood 1889 Jack Johnson (boxing) George Eastman (camera) Galveston Hurricane 1900 Black Sox Scandal Henry Ford Earthquake History of Football, Harvey Firestone The Titanic Baseball, Basketball, Golf, Progressive Reformers The Wright Brothers Auto Racing, Any Other Jane Addams (immigrants) (after first plane) Other Ideas Team Names (how did Ida Tarbell (monopolies) Milton Hershey History of Ku Klux Klan Baseball or Football Carrie Nation (alcohol) Slang words of the 1880s teams get their names) Nellie Bly (reporter) Baseball Fads at the turn of the Jacob Riis (ghettos) Honus Wagner century Movies Lewis Hine (child labor) Ty Cobb Popular Dances Charlie Chaplin (Actor+) Upton Sinclair (meat) Cy Young Vaudeville Birth of a Nation (KKK) Gibson Girls Musicians/Entertainers Immigrant Experience in Child Labor World War I George M. Cohan the late 1800s Brooklyn Bridge The Treaty of Versailles Irving Berlin Jewish Immigrants Empire State Building Sinking of the Lusitania Scott Joplin Italian Immigrants Trolley and Cable Cars Map of World – Before P.T. Barnum Chinese Immigrants Subways and After Ragtime Music Japanese Immigrants Coney Island Native Americans in WWI Irish Immigrants Ferris Wheel Middle East - Before and Frontier Folks and Skyscrapers After WWI Cowboys Now and Then (compare) Statue of Liberty Songs of WWI Nat Love Railroads Ellis Island Flying Aces - Education Tuskegee Institute The Red Baron Levi Strauss Indian Reservations Booker T. Washington Eddie Rickenbacker Cowboys W.E.B. Dubois Movies The NAACP Weapons of WWI Music Panama Canal Tanks Bicycles History of the Girl Scouts Submarines Buffalo Soldiers Transportation History of Aviation Zeppelins Immigration African-Americans in the Poison Gas Presidents Football South during Jim Crow Grenades Theodore Roosevelt Booker T. Washington Machine Guns Woodrow Wilson Misc. W.E.B. Dubois Mortars History of Hawaii The NAACP Airplanes Really Rich Guys History of Alaska Trench Warfare Andrew Carnegie Other Cool Women WWI Planes John D. Rockefeller Timelines Amelia Earhart Overview J.P. Morgan Native American Events Mata Hari Jay Gould American Wars Anastasia Killer Diseases William Randolph Hearst Growth of the Nation Alice Paul Polio Epidemic of 1916 Susan B. Anthony Influenza Epidemic 1918