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Scrapbook Lesson Plan
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Scrapbook Lesson Plan
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Lesson Summary:
Students will compile a scrapbook of photographs, quotations and notes, representing the perspective of a Negro Leagues baseball player. The scrapbook will be from the point of view of a fictional character, and will include artifacts examining the Negro Leagues, travels, family and life during segregation and the civil rights movement. The scrapbook should include photographs with captions, letters, news headlines, and any other materials students wish such as maps, souvenirs, and mementos.
Key Features of Powerful Teaching and Learning:
(National Council for the Social Studies. “A Vision of Powerful Teaching and Learning in the Social Studies: Building Social Understanding and Civic Efficacy.”
http://www.socialstudies.org/positions/powerful/)
Meaningful: Emphasizes social, political, and cultural issues of Black America and the Negro Leagues in the 20th century.
Integrated: Students will use technology to explore Black America and the Negro Leagues in the 20th century.
Challenging: Students will use a variety of skills to demonstrate their understanding of major ideas, eras, themes, and turning points in the history of the United States during the first 75 years of the 20th century.
Active: Students will work in teams to create a scrapbook. Each member will play a role in the development of the final project.
Purpose/Rationale/Introduction:
Students will compile a scrapbook of photographs, quotations, and notes, representing the perspective of a Negro Leagues baseball player. The scrapbook will be from the point of view of a fictional character, and will include artifacts examining the Negro Leagues, travels, family, and life during segregation and the civil rights movement. The scrapbook should include photographs with captions, letters, news headlines, and any other materials students wish such as maps, souvenirs, and mementos.
Objectives:
1. Students will be able to identify key events in the United States and the Negro Leagues from 1900-1975.
2. Students will create a detailed timeline of the key events in the United States and the Negro Leagues from 1900 to 1975.
3. Students will create a historical-fiction scrapbook using key events in history.
Materials/Primary Resources:
Electronic scrapbook resources:
• Internet access, PowerPoint, and handouts
• Rubric
Physical scrapbook resources:
• construction paper, scissors, glue, and markers
Procedures and Activities:
Days 1-2:
Students will receive the Quest Page with the assignment and rubric. The instructor should explain the assignment and discuss the requirements of the rubric. Students will work in teams of 3-5 to complete assignment 1.
Day 3:
Students will begin work on assignment 2.In assignment 2 students will begin to organize their research. They will also begin to sketch the layout of the scrapbook.
Days 4-6:
Students will work on the construction of the scrapbook following the criteria in the rubric and assignments two and three.
Days 7-8:
Students will present their finished scrapbook to the class.
Extension and Enrichment:
Create of scrapbook of your own detailing your life experiences and key historical events.
Online Resources:
Negro Leagues Sites:
http://www.nlbm.com/
http://mlb.mlb.com/NASApp/mlb/mlb/history/
mlb_negro_leagues.jsp
http://www.nlbpa.com/index.html
http://www.negroleaguebaseball.com/index.html
http://www.blackbaseball.com/
History Sites:
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/
http://www.thehistorymakers.com/
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/aap/timelin3.html
Assessment
Students should be assessed using the rubric. Students should receive the rubric prior to the start of the project.
Alternative Assessment:
Students will write an obituary for their great grandfather or grandmother detailing the events in his/her life.
Student Handout:
The Scrapbook of a Negro Leagues Baseball Player
Introduction:
Last summer you were visiting your grandparents. While watching a baseball game on television, your grandfather mentions that your great-grandfather played professional baseball in the Negro Leagues. This piqued your interest and you began to ask your grandparents questions about your great-grandfather and the Negro Leagues. Your grandfather asks if you would like to look at a box of his photographs, letters, and journals. As you are looking through the large box, your grandfather states that he always wanted to organize his memorabilia into a scrapbook for others to see. He asks if you would be willing to complete this project.
The Task:
You will create a scrapbook detailing the experiences of your great- grandfather both as a baseball player and a Black male living during segregation. The scrapbook will be from the point of view of a fictional character, and will include artifacts examining the Negro Leagues, travels, family, and life during segregation and the civil rights movement. The scrapbook should include journal entries, photographs with captions, letters, news headlines, and any other materials students wish such as maps, souvenirs, and mementoes.
A scrapbook is a collection of artifacts and personal memorabilia, organized in an album. The album may be organized chronologically or by theme. Your scrapbook will be historical fiction meaning the character will be fictional but the setting and events will be rooted in actual history.
Process:
You will work as a team of 3-5 to complete the following assignments. Within your team you should assign individual roles to complete the project.
Project Manager (Team Leader) - The role is to keep the team on task, monitor progress, and assists the technology leader and researchers.
Technology Leader - Responsible for the building the electronic scrapbook.
Researcher(s) - Responsible for collecting and organizing information and maintaining historical accuracy. Researchers are also responsible for the creation of artifacts to support each event.
Assignment 1:
Your great-grandfather lived from 1901 to 1975. Complete a timeline of key events that he would have experienced or would have impacted his life, both on and off of the baseball diamond.
As a team, determine which of these events would have had the most impact and include them in the timeline.
The timeline should include at least 15 key historical events.
Each event should have a detailed description. (Who, What, Why, Where, When, How)
Assignment 2:
As a team, decide how you will present and organize the material for the scrapbook. The information can be organized either chronologically or by themes. Students have the option of creating an electronic journal with PowerPoint, Microsoft Publisher, etc. or creating a hard copy scrapbook.
Use the graphic organizer and storyboard to map out the layout of your scrapbook. Your scrapbook should:
- Include at least 3 baseball-related experiences.
- Include at least 7 events outside of baseball that would have made an impact on him during his lifetime.
A journal entry and at least two other artifacts such as photographs with captions, letters, news headlines, and any other materials such as maps, souvenirs, mementoes, etc. should support each of these events.
Assignment 3:
Create an electronic scrapbook using the specifications listed above. Your scrapbook should also include:
- A title page with the names of each student
- Bibliography page
Assignment 4:
Present your scrapbook to your grandparents (class).
Scrapbook Rubric:
Please see link at top left to download.
Student Handouts:
Timeline Grid and Storyboard Sketch Grids
Please see link at top left to download.