1 / 40

Our Paragon Timeline - Portfolio Discovery at Arts and Technology Academy

Experience a journey through historical events with 7/8th-grade students at Arts and Technology Academy in Peter Grace's Portfolio Discovery class. From the drafting of the Constitution to social reform movements, witness the presentations, projects, and skits that bring history to life.

besta
Download Presentation

Our Paragon Timeline - Portfolio Discovery at Arts and Technology Academy

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. 2010-2011 Paragon PortfolioDiscovery Arts and Technology Academy 7/8th Grade Peter Grace

  2. Our Paragon Timeline!

  3. Quarter 1: How did the Constitution come to be the law of the land?

  4. Students presenting skits on the drafting of the 1776 Declaration of Independence and 1887 Constitution

  5. More Skits

  6. Students learned which Amendments were included in the Bill of Rights

  7. Quarter 2: How did Manifest Destiny shape the United States and its people?

  8. Students created Lewis and Clark Journals.

  9. Advertisement posters to attract Americans to explore the West.

  10. Students made comic strips portraying the day in the life of a family moving West.

  11. More comic strips of people bound for Oregon

  12. Students made a picture with quotes from the novel Bound for Oregon

  13. More quotes…

  14. Holiday Unit:Students learned about the Chinese New Year and the symbol of the dragon.

  15. Quarter 3: How did the rise of Islam affect the world?

  16. Students learned about the geography of the Middle East

  17. Students also created models of Oasis‘ to show how the Bedouin people survived in that region.

  18. Our finished projects!

  19. Quarter 3: How did the Civil War divide and reshape the United States?

  20. Students made posters explaining key events in the Civil War.

  21. Students compared the North to the South

  22. Quarter 4: How do citizens bring about social change. • Students learned about the different reform movements of the late 19th century such as the temperance movement, labor movements, environmental reform movements, women's rights movement, and the Civil Rights movement.

  23. Students made “rally posters” in favor or against certain reform movements. Temperance Movement

  24. Temperance Movement:

  25. Environmental reform movement

  26. Women’s rights:

  27. More rally posters:

  28. Students filled a map of the United States with the effects of the reform movements throughout the 19th and 20th centuries.

  29. Students working on PowerPoint presentations on the early Civil Rights movement

  30. The End

More Related