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Long Term Projects
You have some long term projects that will require you to set aside some time each week, so that you do not fall behind when the work comes due. These are:
Web Inquiries, Presentations, Debates, Tests (see Unit Syllabi for exact days)
Unit I
Debate:
Dropping the Bomb (web
inquiry and role playing debate)
Origins
of the Cold War- Was the Cold War the Product of Paranoia?(DBQ
Unit Test)
Unit II
Hollywood and the Cold War (film analysis)
The
Avant-Garde of the 1950s- In the Belly of the Beast
(web inquiry and role play/ multimedia presentations)
The
1950s, An Era of Conformity?(DBQ
Unit Test)
Unit III
Evaluating
"Thirteen Days" as History (film analysis)
Civil
Disobedience to Black Power: The Evolution of the Civil Rights Movement, 1952-1975
(multiple choice
and DBQ Unit Test)
Unit IV
The 1960s Through Firsthand Accounts
(oral history)
Rock
and Folk Music of the 60s: Was the Counterculture Radical?
(in class informal debate)
Unit V
The
End of Affirmative Action? (role
playing formal debate)
The End(s) of Liberalism
(take home final exam)
You will also conduct an Oral History project (three pages, double-spaced). For the oral history, I recommend you begin as soon as possible to scout out interviewees and to follow the timetable below. You will choose an interview subject from among your family friends or among Fieldston alumni . First you will research the period/takeover. Then you will choose a source from your family friends or an alum from a list supplied by the alumni office. Then you will research your choice, prepare questions and interview them once or twice. You will write up a transcript of the interview(s) as a rough draft. You final draft will be a write-up of your interview subject’s point of view in the first person. Be prepared to assume the identity of your subject and to recount her/his experiences during the 1960s.
Due Dates:
find and research subject- one page description of source (Monday,
10/7)
10 questions prepared (Monday, 10/21)
first interview (Monday, 11/11)
second interview (only if necessary) (Monday,
11/18)
final write up ( Monday, 12/9)
A 6-8 page research essay is due at the end of the course. There are interim due dates for topics, outlines, drafts, etc. For help with these skills see the Essay Guide. The topic must center on the turbulent years surrounding 1968. (see History Essay or Documentary Topics sheet)
You can choose, instead, to create a 20 minute video documentary. The documentary will follow the same due dates and general structure as the essay. Your documentary should have a strong thesis and use primary textual, visual and auditory sources from history. (see History Essay or Documentary Topics sheet)
Due Dates:
topic question/ preliminary bibliography (at least 5 sources) Friday, 10/11
thesis and outline/ timetable/ storyboard Friday, 10/25
rough draft Monday, 11/25
final draft with cover page, footnotes and bibliography/final project Friday,
1/10/03
Fieldston History Fair: Tuesday, 2/11/03
NYC History Day: Early March
NY State History Day: Early May
National History Day: Early June
These assignments are all in addition to your weekly questions and readings. You should, therefore, establish interim deadlines so that this work does not pile up on you. To assist you I will check your work as you progress and provide you with provisional grades along the way to give you an indication of what the final grade might be.