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This project asks you to explore a topic of historical or cultural importance in one of the four main ethnic groups we are studying: African American, Native American, Asian American, and Latino.

Research and report on a topic from one of the four groups. Ethnic groups will be assigned randomly. Other students may have your same ethnic group, so choose your topic early. Topics may not be repeated.

• Your report must include the basic information: who, what, when, where, why and how.

• Show how the event is important or culturally significant. What resulted from the event or "topic"? Were laws changed? Did people behave differently? Did culture shift/change? Explain.

• Be sure to list the key players and a bit about each of them and their roles.

• Add anything that will be important for us to know.

Report format choices:

• oral presentation with poster illuminating the main ideas

• oral presentation with PowerPoint illuminating the main ideas

• oral presentation with video illuminating the main ideas

About your report presentation:

• Each member of your group needs to participate fully in presentation.

• Reports must be well organized, well paced, and easy to understand.

• Verbally cite your sources in your report.

• Reports should not exceed ten minutes.

• Hand in a typed works cited page; it must be MLA style.

Topics: (see the list of links below for 12 suggested topics, or consult a history textbook or online history timeline for other ideas)

Resources:

• Use books, articles, or web sources. Cite any sources you use in a works cited page.

• Use two sources, minimum

• The links below are to get you started. Find at least one other resource for your report.

Rubric

Links> Those that are bolded are also topics.

General

• Digital History: Ethnic Voices Great site!!

• Race in America: New York Times site list

African American

• The African American Odyssey

• History of Jim Crow

• Harlem Renaissance

• Historic Places of the Civil Rights Movement

• Reporting Civil Rights

• Greensboro Sit Ins

• Race Riots

• CNN Black History Month

• African American Writers

Native American

• Native American History: University of Washington

• First Nations Histories

• Indian Removal

• Cherokee Trail of Tears

• Indian Boarding Schools

• Effects of Immigration

• Edward Curtis Collection

Asian American

• Japanese-American Internment Camps

• Manzanar National Historic Site

• Asian Nation

• Hmong in America: PBS

• Hmong Homepage

• Library of Congress: Chinese Immigration

Latino

• Latino History and Culture: Smithsonian

• Latino/Hispanic Writers

• Cesar Chavez and the Farmworkers' Struggle: PBS

• Zoot Suit Riots

• Cuban Immigration

• Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month

• Exploring Hispanic History and Culture: A Dynamic Field

• La Raza (Hispanic voice in Washington D.C)

Rubric: