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To keep track of what you are learning each week, you will keep a series of journal entries from the perspective of the people we are discussing. You have the option of choosing different perspectives or just stick with 1 perspective. The journal entries are serving as rough drafts to help you write your quilt squares as well as you get you ready for your final paper.

Your team will investigate a recent genocide or human rights violation and then create an educational campaign to educate an audience of your choice about this event and what we can do to make sure it doesn’t happen again.

You will be designing a total of 8 quilt squares to represent the different perspectives of people involved in the Industrial Revolution. The theme we will be exploring throughout this unit is the essential question of what is progress and who really benefited from the Industrial Revolution. Each week, you will design a number of quilt squares to add to your overall quilt. You will have a total 8 squares on your quilt, picture on one side and writing on the other side.

This rubric will be used to assess students on their performance for the Boy in the Striped Pajamas perspective writing assignment.

Social Studies Persuasive Paper - Industrial Revolution

Students will be performing a skit about one of the amendments from the Constitution. They will have to include the court case title, the issue in the case and amendment it is challenging, the bottom line of the case (1-sentence summary of what can or cannot be done because of it), the ruling of the court and how it impacts our society today.

Write a persuasive letter to a representative in government about a self-picked issue that relates to the Bill of Rights.

Create 1 page of an ABC Book that will be made by everyone in the class.

Students will pick 3 issues from the 2012 Election that are important to them and first explain what the issue is, their stance on the issue and what they can do to solve it. They will be expected to introduce what the issues are and have a conclusion.

Character Sketch of Obama or Romney

Write a report on the construction and impacts of the opening of the Sydney Harbour Bridge OR Write a narrative from the perspective of someone involved in the construction or opening of the Sydney Harbour Bridge. E.g., a journal kept over the period of construction of the Bridge.

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