Sidebar Studies

Q1: Early American Literature

Book Choices: Early American Authors: Books and Books about them linked.
Anne Bradstreet
Emily Dickinson
Walt Whitman
Washington Irving
Benjamin Franklin
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Herman Melville
Cotton Mather
Jonathon Edwards
Research Choices
Native American and Puritan relationships
The English Civil War
Puritan Ideology and Family Relationships
American speakers
o Patrick Henry
o Ben Franklin
o George Washington
o John Hancock
o Thomas Jefferson
o John Adams
o George Mason
The Constitution and its framing
The Declaration of Independence
Q2: Night and the Holocaust
Book Options:
http://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/holocaust-literature

Research
1. Concentration Camps-
2. World War II- Important Leaders and Events
3. Pearl Harbor
4. Children of the Holocaust
5. Kristallnacht-night of the broken glass
6. Daily Life in the Camps
7. Medical Experiments of the Holocaust
8. Death Marches
9. Mengele: Angel of Death
10. Nazi Propaganda
11. Why was the world silent?
12. The Japanese American Interment Camp
13. Killing Squads (Einsatzgruppen)
Requirements
Book Report Requirements
1. Pick a book and read it.
2. Then choose from the following list about how you are going to share your review and
critique of the book:
a. Radio broadcast
a. Presentation with PowerPoint
b. Movie presentation
c. Skit or performance
d. Web Page
e. Written Paper
f. Animation (stop motion, cartoon)
3. Include the rubric elements

4 3-2 1
Plot Arc Identify the
exposition, rising
action, climax, falling
action, and resolution
of your story. Use at
least three quotes to
support your
reasoning for why
each stage is which.
Your explanation
doesn't seem to match
the plot arc
completely. For
example, you have
events in falling
action that are
actually climax. You
use only two quotes
to support your
reasoning.
You don't clearly
explain which parts
of the plot arc are
which or you seem to
lack understanding
about what each
piece of the plot arc
are. You use one or
less quotes to explain
your reasoning for
each stage.
Product Presentation should
be creative and
communication
should be clear.
Presentation is
somewhat creative
but key concepts
arent clear.
Presentation is not
creative and concepts
are not clear.
Content You clearly explain
how the book
reflected the Early
American beliefs,
ideals, and general
times.
You somewhat link
your explanation of
the plot to the time
period, but there are
major gaps.
You don't link your
explanation of the
plot to anything we
are discussing. You
miss the point of
reading this literature.


Research Project Requirements
2. Pick a topic
3. Do some research to find out about that topic
4. Find a way to present it:
a. Presentation with PowerPoint
b. Movie presentation
c. Skit or performance
d. Web Page
e. Written Paper
f. Animation (stop motion, cartoon)
g. Audio recording
5. Include the rubric elements
6. Make sure you are presenting this as an answer to your research question. What did you
learn about X? Why does that matter?

4 3-2 1
Research You need to list two
to three sources on a
bibliography and use
three quotes in your
project. Cite all
research properly and
make sure it is MLA.
You use two or less
sources and two
quotes, and/or your
research isnt cited or
cited properly.
You use one source
and one quote, and/or
your research isnt
cited.
Presentation Presentation should
be creative and
communication
should be clear.
Presentation is
somewhat creative
but key concepts
arent clear.
Presentation is not
creative and concepts
are not clear.
Content Information is not
just factual, but also
synthesizes
information learned
nicely and topic is
well explained and
discovered.
Information is factual
and topic is well
explained, but needs
more relevance.
Information is
unclear and not well
explained.