FINAL+PROJECT

World History “Your World” Final Project
Throughout the year, you have traced the history of the world from approximately 1700 to the end of the Cold War. During our journey, we have looked at major events through the eyes of “great” men and women as well as everyday citizens. Instead of using a cold, impersonal textbook, we have explored myriad avenues of technology to bring history alive. Now, we would like to challenge you to do the same for us in one final project.

Just because the Cold War ended, world history is still in the making. Wars are being waged; genocides continue to happen; globalization ties us together more strongly than ever before. As you have seen over the past two semesters, world history occurs when multiple regions of the world are impacted by the same phenomenon. In your final project, we challenge you to examine a world historical event that occurred after the Cold War.

Your research-based project must meet the following requirements:
 * It must be based on an event or ongoing issue that affects multiple regions of the world simultaneously.
 * You must develop a question about your topic and answer it with a well-developed thesis supported by technology on a wiki page. This wiki page must contain text, audio and visual evidence that supports your thesis in an interactive manner. Since we will not have time to explore all the major events that have happened after the Cold War, your wiki pages must do that for us.
 * You must use a minimum of five sources to research your project. These five sources must consist of at least one documentary source like a textbook or reference book, one printed book or magazine article (KIS library data base is a great place to start), one website like ABC-CLIO or another reliable reference site, one primary source document, one audio source, and one video source. (Video and audio sources may be combined.) Since your event takes place in the recent modern era, you should have no problem finding all of these rather easily. All sources must be cited using MLA format.
 * Any media either it be political cartoon, Youtube video, picture or any other type of media you must have analysis tied to it. Do not simply put up a video and expect the viewer to do your job and analyze the material. Remember that media you put up is evidence for your argument and not the argument itself. The goal of this project is to understand your thoughts and ideas.
 * To teach your classmates about this topic in an engaging way, your wiki page must be attractively designed, organized effectively, and contain text, audio and visual components. All of these elements must specifically pertain to your question and thesis in a concise, engaging manner.

During the last week of May, you will make a short 2-3 minute presentation about your wiki page that will introduce your question, give students a sense of how you approached your research and thesis, and show them how to get the most out of your wiki page. This presentation should be a promotional event where you entice students to explore your work.

Students will then spend class and homework time examining and evaluating your page. You will then have time to make any final edits and revision before final assessment by your teacher.



Project Timeline
Explain project Students brainstorm topics Begin forming historical questions
 * April 21-22**

Students get historical questions approved Begin research (Will need to be done outside of class)
 * April 28-29**

Research and Exploration In-class workdays
 * May 7-8**

Progress Check-in: Show Spivey or Brightman tangible progress.
 * May 13-14**

Create and post wikis
 * May 15-27**

Presentations Peer-Evaluation
 * May 28-29**

Revise and final edits
 * May 30-31**

Final project due at 8:00 A.M. June 1st
 * June 1**

Assessment

 * Peer Evaluation
 * Self-Evaluation
 * Teacher Evaluation

Research Resources
[|KIS Library] has the following helpful research web resources: Newsbank eLibrary** [|ABC-CLIO] Username: KIS Password: welcome
 * Opposing Viewpoints


 * The World Book Encyclopedia** does not require a username or password.

[|Questia] Username: kis + your KIS Student ID# Password: KIS Student ID# + kis EXAMPLE: For Questia, my username: kis307046 The password is the reverse: 307046kis

[|EBSCO] User ID: ns173787 Password: trial

[|Proquest] Password: welcome

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