1930s Research Project: Introduction of  Setting in  To Kill A Mockingbird

Picture Source: Kingwood College Library:  American Cultural History 1930-1939

Objective

Task

Research Topics

Information Seeking Strategies

Location and Access

Product

Objective: 

Students will conduct research in order to gain historical background about the 1930s, the time period in which Harper Lee’s novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, takes place.  As a result of creating and viewing visual presentations about various elements of the 1930s, students will gain a deeper understanding of the novel’s meaning and its impact on the people who read it.

Task:

Students will complete the following tasks in order to meet the objective.

1. Work in a group of 3-4 students.  Choose a topic related to the 1930s.
2. Decide how to divide the topic among group members to create a well-organized and information presentation.
3. Each student will work independently in the media center in order to do directed research on a selected sub-topic. Students will use Noodletools to create source cards and note cards on the sub-topic. Each student must have a total of 3 source cards and 3 note cards.
4. Work with a group to compile research into a well-organized, informative, and visually attractive Prezi presentation format.
5. Continue working independently, either at home or in the W.J. media center or public library, in order to complete the research tasks and completion of the Prezi.
6. Students will view each other’s work during a Prezi gallery walk to be conducted at the conclusion of the project.
7. YOU CANNOT USE WIKIPEDIA AS A SOURCE FOR A SOURCE CARD. YOU CAN READ IT, BUT YOU CANNOT USE IT AS A SOURCE. IT IS NOT A VALID SOURCE FOR RESEARCH. DO NOT GOOGLE FOR WEBSITES. WE'VE DONE THAT FOR YOU AND FOUND WHAT WE THINK ARE VALID SITES. YOU'RE WELCOME!!

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Research Topics:

Information Seeking Strategies:

  
  Golden Gate Bridge photos from the Official Website of the Golden Bridge

Find information in encyclopedias, biographies, newspapers, personal interviews, and the Internet. The Library Media Center and other libraries.

Walter Johnson’s Learning Research Hub provides access to a wide variety of general and subject-based online reference materials. The links below provide access to useful research tools for this project.  

e-Books

 

Location and Access: 

For this assignment, the following Dewey Decimal classification numbers will be helpful:
 

000-099 General	100-199 Philosophy/Psychology	200-299 Religion/Mythology	300-399 Social Sciences	400-499 Language
001.5			301.531   309.173 330.973   338.5   345 380.5   391  391.09
500-599  Nat Sciences/Mathematics	600-699 Technology	700-799 The Arts	800-899 Literature	900-999 Geography/History
		700 782.81 782.81 792 792.09 796 796.03		973.9 973.91 973.916 973.917

 

WOMEN OF THE 1930s

Women In The Workplace Women in American History

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FAMOUS PEOPLE OF THE 1930s

Eleanor and Franklin D.Roosevelt

Margaret Mitchell House & Museum Eleanor Roosevelt Eleanor Roosevelt Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Jane Addams Hull-House Museum Home Page Glenn Curtiss, San Diego aviation pioneer Thomas Edison American Inventor 1847 –1931 The Wizard of Menlo Park Thomas Hunt Morgan (1866-1945) Salvador Dali 1904-1989 Pablo Ruiz Y Picasso (1881-1973) Gertrude Stein Gertrude Stein Pearl S. Buck Truman Capote Amelia Earhart - A Timeline Amelia Earhart Franklin D. Roosevelt:Thirty-Second President 1933-1945 Joe Louis John Dewey (1859-1952) The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy: John Dewey Dewey's Moral Philosophy Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy Dewey's Political Philosophy Herbert Hoover Thirty-First President 1929-1933 Herbert Clark Hoover The Lindbergh Case -The Crime of the Century The Kidnapping Distinguished Women of Past and Present: Alphabetical Index of Names Encyclopedia Britannica Profiles: 300 Women Who Changed the World Biography Center The History Place: The Rise of Adolf Hitler Joseph Stalin Shirley Temple

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ECONOMICS IN THE 1930s

THE GREAT DEPRESSION Modern world history: The Wall Street Crash 1920s & 1930s: The Depression & The New Deal I remember . . ." (Reminiscences of the Great Depression) Then and Now: Prices; Compare Prices During the Great Depression to Today's Prices Great Depression Timeline The Great Depression and the New Deal The Great Depression and WWII, 1929-1945 Modern American Poetry: The Great Depression The First Measured Century: Stock Market Crash Social Security Online Social Security History American Cultural History National Archives: 1930 Census The People History: Money and Inflation 1930s

THE DUST BOWL Voices from the Dust Bowl Dust Bowl History.com Dust Bowl Information

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SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY IN THE 1930s

Chicago World's Fair Images From A Century of Progress The Nobel Foundation Official Web Site of the Golden Gate Bridge Golden Gate Bridge San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge, Pictures and History Smithsonian: Transportation History

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POLITICS IN THE 1930s

	League of Nations Woodrow Wilson and the League of Nations The History Place - The Rise of Adolf Hitler Winston Churchill Homepage Winston Churchill Sir Winston Churchill Biography Joseph Stalin (1879-1953) Stalin Biographical Chronicle Adolf Hitler (1889-1945)
Sir Winston Churchill

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ARTS, SPORTS AND PHOTOGRAPHY

American Cultural History 1930-1939 The Authentic History Center America in the 1930's History of the New Deal Art Projects Federal Writers' Project: Interview Excerpts Radio Programs of the 1930's

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FILM AND THE 30s

Walt and Mickey

The Motion Picture Production Code of 1930 (Hays Code) Arts Reformation.com Ken Burns’ Jazz Jazz Standards Musicals 101  (Go to Musicals on Stage and Musicals on Film and find the 1930s.) Theater of the 1930s Art Deco Resource Just Disney Sports in the 1930s World Sports History Timeline Nazi Olympics, Berlin 1936 The Formation of Modern American Culture: 1930’s Events Timeline Harlem Renaissance Multi-Media Resource Photographers Photographs of the 1930's Dorothea Lange Oakland Museum of California

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CRIME AND GANGSTERS

Prohibition Prohibition -- History.com Al Capone J Edgar Hoover Legends of America FBI Famous Cases

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GENERAL INFORMATION SITES ABOUT THE 1930s

The 1930's: A Time of Depression The Depression News: The 1930's The Herbert Hoover Presidential Library-Museum Kingwood College Library: American Cultural History : 1930 - 1939 Social Security Administration: History Page Historical Atlas of the Twentieth Century The Media History Project Interview: Growing up White in the South in the 1930s Interview: Growing up Black 1930s in McCulleys Quarters,Alabama New Deal Photo Gallery and Document Library The Scottsboro Boys Trials Famous American Trials Jim Crow Museum The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow The Library of Congress African American Odyssey The Depression, The New Deal, and World War II America in the 1930s Advertising America in the 1930s Advertising Methods Controversy Vintage Ads 33-34 World’s Fair Chicago Invent Now Hall of Fame 1939 New York World’s Fair Ladies Fashions of the 1930s Head Over Heels: 1930's Fashion 1930's Fashion History What People Wore Back in 1930 History of 20th Century Women's Fashion Modern World 1930-1945: Women's Dresses 1930s Fashions-Fashions of the 30s

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Product:

Each group will create a Prezi that consists of the following: 

• one central graphic introducing the overall topic
• each student will create a minimum of two slides related to his or her subtopic.  These slides will convey factual information, as well as some sort of visual (with captions, as needed)

_____/ 10   Information
_____ / 5 Organization
_____ / 5 Creativity & Visual Appeal

Total Points ______/ 20

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