Students will demonstrate an understanding of economic and social influences on historical issues and events.

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19th Century Reform Movements

• Students will demonstrate an understanding of
  economic and social influences on historical
  issues and events.
• Students will evaluate the impact of reform
  movements including public education, temperance,
  womens rights, prison reform, and care of the
  disabled.
• Students will demonstrate proficiency in use of
  multimedia by creating a project incorporating
  text, audio, video, and graphics.

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Using the textbook and the Internet sites listed,
students will research and take notes on the
reform movements listed below. Each member of
the partner pair will have specific topics to
research

• Partner 1
• The Second Great Awakening
• Abolition
• Womens Rights

• Partner 2
• Public Education
• Education of the Blind and Deaf
• Temperance
• Prison Reform and Treatment of the Mentally Ill

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For each topic, students will research the
answers to the following questions. Each partner
will use their own computer and save their
presentation.

• What was the problem addressed by the reform
  movement?
• Who was the leader or leaders of this reform
  movement?
• When did the movement begin?

• Where were some of the important locations for
  this movement?
• Was the movement helpful or successful?
• How did activists in this movement pursue their
  goals?
• How did this reform effect todays society? Or
  how would society be different today without this
  reform?

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Comparison

• To complete your presentation pick one of the
  issues that you or your partner researched and
  compare it to a current issue in America.
• Is the issue still around today?
• If not, are there similar issues today?
• Who does this issue most effect?
• What are people doing to combat this issue?
  (DARE, MADD, community organizations, national
  organizations, NAACP)
• How does it compare to the tactics used in the
  1840s?
• If you were asked to help create a plan to solve
  this issue what ideas do you have? How would you
  implement that plan?
• Your comparison should be at least a paragraph
  long. Place these on slides 11 and 12 of your
  presentation. Each partner must write their own
  comparison. Write your name at the bottom of the
  paragraph

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Facilitation Questions

• What kinds of problems existed in the early 19th
  century that led to the reform movements.
• Who would have been likely to experience those
  problems?
• How did reform movements change things?
• Were there particular events that had a big
  impact on your reform movement? When and where
  did those events occur?
• Were there particular people who had a big impact
  on your reform movement? When and where did
  those events occur?
• What common traits do these reformers share?
• What sacrifices do reformers make to accomplish
  their goals?
• What factors influence the success of a reform
  movement?

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Power Point Presentation Working with your
partner each of you will create a slide/s for
your topics. Each partner will create 6 slides
and then merge them together, or present
individually.

• Slide 1 Title slide
• Slide 2 The Second Great Awakening
• Slide 3 The Abolition Movement
• Slide 4 Leaders of the Abolition Movement
• Slide 5 The Womens Rights Movement
• Slide 6 Leaders of the Womens Rights Movement
• Slide 7 Public Education
• Slide 8 Education of the Blind and Deaf
• Slide 9 Temperance
• Slide 10 Prison Reform and Treatment of the
  Mentally
• Ill
• Slide 11/12 Comparing to today

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Each slide should include the following elements

• A title
• Text summarizing the research and answering all
  the research questions.
• A graphic (photograph or appropriate clipart)
• Students may include the following elements
• on some slides
• Action buttons
• Animation
• Audio (music or sounds, example speeches)

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Timeline

• Day 1 Research your section of the project and
  record your information in a word document. You
  must turn in a printed version of your word
  document for a grade at the END of the period!
• Day 2 Finish up research and begin ppt. Make
  sure that you have all your factual information
  1st before you begin to edit design, layout and
  special effects.
• Day 3 Continue working on ppt. Do not forget to
  consult with your partner
• Day 4 Work on added details to your presentation
  and begin to merge with your partners
• Day 5 optional finish up remaining work

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Rubric

• Same background, font, format
• Title
• Summary of research
• Answer all research questions in summary
• Graphic
• Optional
• Action buttons
• Animation
• Audio

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Suggested web sites Use the search engines
allowed by the school as well.

• Second Great Awakening
• http//www.u-s-history.com/pages/h1091.html
• http//www.ohiohistorycentral.org/entry.php?rec15
  32
• Abolitionists
• http//www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4p1561.html
• http//www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4p1539.html
• Womens Rights Sence Falls Convention and Early
  Suffragists
• http//www.history.com/this-day-in-history.do?acti
  ontdihArticleCategorydisplayDate07/19categoryI
  dgeneral
• http//www.npg.si.edu/col/seneca/senfalls1.htm
• http//womenshistory.about.com/library/bio/blmott.
  htm
• http//womenshistory.about.com/library/bio/blstant
  on.htm
• http//womenshistory.about.com/library/bio/blantho
  ny.htm
• Public Education
• http//www.pbs.org/onlyateacher/horace.html
• http//www.pbs.org/kcet/publicschool/
• http//www.servintfree.net/aidmn-ejournal/publica
  tions/2001-11/PublicEducationInTheUnitedStates.htm
  l
• Education of the Blind and Deaf
• http//clerccenter.gallaudet.edu/InfoToGo/751.html
  
• http//www.perkinsmuseum.org/museum/area.php?id35
  

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Library Resources

• Baines Middle School Library Resources
  http//www.fortbendisd.com/library/databases.htm
• Nettrekkerhttp//school.nettrekker.com/
• World Book Online http//www.worldbookonline.com/w
  b/Home
• Encyclopedia Britannica http//school.eb.com/
• AP Images http//apimages.ap.org/default.aspx