Content Pathfinder #1
General
Information
Name:Roberta G. Ludt
School:
Workshop
Location: KSU-Main Campus
Title
of Companion Action Plan:Famous People in Government
Grade
Levels:11-12
Curriculum/Subject
Area: Government
Specific
Topic: Biographies of persons mentioned in the textbook
Content
Information
Brief
Summary of the Topic/Pathfinder: Students will be partnered with someone in
their class to create a 10 minute 18-20 slide PowerPoint presentation about someone
mentioned in their Government textbook. Note: All requirements for this project
are described elsewhere in this document.
Content
Categories
Reference
Books
A
Biographical Dictionary First Ladies by Dorothy Schneider & Carl J.
Schneider NY:Facts on File, Inc., 2001.
A
Biographical Dictionary Presidents by Neil A. Hamilton NY:Facts
on File, Inc., 2001.
A
Pictorial History of Black Americans by Langston Hughes, Milton Meltzer, and C.
Eric Lincoln NY:Crown Publishers, 1983.
African
American Voices Deborah Gillan Straub, ed.
Ahead
of Their Time A Biographical Dictionary of Risk-Taking Women by Joyce Duncan
Westport, Conn:
Biographical
Dictionary of African Americans by Rachel Kranz & Philip J. Kaslow NY:
Facts on File, Inc., 2003.
Biographical
Dictionary of Modern World Leaders 1992 to Present by John C. Fredriksen NY:Facts on File, Inc., 2003.
Contemporary
Black Biography Barbara
Encyclopedia
of American Lives Kenneth T. Jackson, ed. NY:Charles
Scribner’s Sons, 2002.
Peoples
of the World North America Joyce Moss, ed.
The
26 Ladies That Left a Permanent Imprint on the 20th Century: Their
Stories, Their Successes, Their Failures, Their Mark in Time by Mike McMahon Honolulu,HI:
McMahon & McMahon Advertising, 2000.
The
Century by Peter Jennings & Todd Brewster NY:Doubleday,
1998.
The
First Ladies Lynda DeCesare, ed. NY:
World
Book of America’s Presidents Maureen Mostyn Libenson, ed.
Websites
http://lii.org/search/file/reference
www.awesomelibrary.org/librarian.html
Realia
Bust of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Bust
of John F. Kennedy
Periodicals
Biography
Current
Biography
Newsweek
People
Weekly
Time
Famous People in US Government
A Powerpoint Presentation
100 Total Points
1. Must work with your assigned partner.
2. Must have a minimum of 18 slides or a maximum of 20 slides
about your person.
3. Slides must be pictures with sound/music effects only. No
text except creating partner's initials.
4. You may choose anyone mentioned in your Government
textbook. Only one partnership per person per period.
5. Each person is responsible for at least 9 slides.
6. You must have a minimum of 10 3x5 note cards giving your
brief biography of your chosen person, which will be your
narration during your presentation.
7. Biography must cover their early life, education,
accomplishments, and where they are now.
8. Biography must be paraphrased when presenting, and must
reflect what is showing on your slide.
9. The full presentation must be 10 minutes long.
10.You must physically change the slides using the mouse or
the enter key.
11.You must have at least 12 different transitions and some
music.
12.Each person in the partnership must be present during
presentation.
1. Refer to Youngstown City Schools Website after you log on
to the computer
2. Click on Programs and Services, then Student Resources.
3. Click on Software Training.
4. Click on Software Tutorials(1).
5. Click on PowerPoint.
6. Click on Classroom Task Oriented Tutorials.
7. Click on #2 Choosing a Template and Creating a New Slide.