|
Top
Introduction
Task
Process
Evaluation
Conclusion
Teachers
Credits
|
PART 1
You are all journalists working to expose the injustices caused by mass
hysteria in America. In your group, one person will be responsible
for researching The Salem Witch Trials, one will research the internment
of Japanese during WWII, one will research the McCarthy hearings, and one
of you will research the Robert Roberson case. For this part of the
task, you will work with classmates from other groups who are focusing
on the same part of history as you. The sites listed below will be
helpful to you in your research, but some are more reliable than others.
Use your website evaluation
form to help you determine which sites are the most credible.
You can also conduct your own search at BeyondBooks,
NY
Times, Marcoplo,
and AllExperts.com. You must
have at least four sources for this project.
Before you begin your research, print out the
notes
page and use it to help focus your research.
PART 2
For the second part, you will go back to your original groups and compare
your findings. You will create Venn diagrams to display these comparisons.
Print out two copies of the Venn
diagram; on one, compare your group's findings on the Salem Witch Trials
and the Robertson case, and on the other one, compare your findings on
the McCarthy Hearings and the Japanese-American Internment Camps.
Next, make a list of
similarities that all four cases share and comment on the significance
of these similarities.
PART 3
Next, you will write an article for the Classroom Gazette in
which you address the degree of impact that mass hysteria had on the causes
and effects of the case you examined. At the end of your article,
you must compare the impact that mass hysteria had on your case with the
impact it had on the cases that your group mates investigated. Your
group's articles are to be put together in one document to resemble a newspaper
page, your newspaper page must also include at least four pictures, one
from each event, with captions. You may follow the directions at the Classroom
newspaper site, or you may create your own template in Word.
|
