Black%20History%20Month%20Presentation

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Black History Month Presentation

• Your Name
• Your Teachers Name
• Your School
• Your Grade
• SAVE YOUR PROJECT AS BLACK HISTORY PROJECT
• IN YOUR DOCUMENTS FOLDER

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Introduction

• State the significance of Black History Month and
  why it is important.
• This section can be one to two slides and can
  include pictures and/or videos.
• If including a picture or video, you need to cite
  it right below (You could insert a text box to do
  so).
• It should say
• Courtesy of insert the web address here

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Overview

• Give a brief overview of what youll cover in
  your presentation
• You may want to leave this slide blank until the
  end. You dont really know what you will cover
  yet.

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History

• Make a timeline of the important historical
  events in Black history.
• Go to Insert- Table to make a table like the one
  below.

Name of Event 1 Name of Event 2 Name of Event 3 Name of Event 4 Name of Event 5 Name of Event 6
1st Date 2nd Date 3rd Date 4th Date 5th Date 6th Date
Description of Event Description of Event Description of Event Description of Event Description of Event Description of Event
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Interesting Facts

• List 5 interesting facts about Black History
  Month in a bulleted list.

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Black History Leader

• Choose an important person in black history and
  discuss the persons life and accomplishments.
• What are they known for? How did/do they
  contribute to others to make them worthy of
  recognition? Do they contribute to humanitarian
  efforts or charities?
• Use the next two to three slides to outline why
  they are important. Do NOT just cut and paste
  from the Internet! That is plagiarism!
• Include a picture of the person.
• http//www.biography.com/blackhistory/people/legal
  .jsp
• Here are some ideas Barack Obama, Jackie
  Robinson, Benjamin Banneker, Sojourner Truth,
  Frederick A. Douglas, Harriet Tubman, Paul
  Laurence Dunbar, Granville T. Woods, Ida B
  Wells-Barnett, George Washington Carver, Matthew
  A. Henson, W.E.B. DuBois, James Weldon Johnson,
  Mary McLeod Bethune, Carter G. Woodson, A. Philip
  Randolph, Louis Armstrong, Marian Anderson, Ralph
  Johnson Bunche, Jesse Owens, Martin Luther King,
  Jr.

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• Add more information about your person here.
• You can include a video of the person, if one is
  available.
• Save the movie to your documents and then click
  Insert- Movies and Sounds, find your file, and
  then click to add it into your presentation.

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Arts and Literature

• Provide one example of art and one of literature
  that are significant to Black History Month.
• Include a picture of each and label it.

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How We Celebrate

• List five ways we celebrate Black History Month
  around the nation.
• Include a picture of a celebration.

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Conclusion

• Provide a brief summary of your presentation.

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Resources

• List ALL the online resources in alphabetical
  order that you used for your research in correct
  MLA format. See example below
• Go this this website for more ways to cite
  http//www.virtualsalt.com/mla.htm
• References
• Authors Last Name, Authors First Name. Title of
  Web Page. Online Available at
• URL of specific site, date of document or
  download.
• Lane, Sarah. The Nuts And Bolts of College
  Writing. Online Available at
• http//www.classbrain.com/artteensb/publish/artic
  le_94.shtml, 9 May, 2003.