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One-Pagers. Purpose. A one-pager is a single-page response to the topic. It is a way of making your own pattern of your unique understanding. It is a way to be creative and experimental. It is a way to respond imaginatively and honestly. Purpose.
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Purpose • A one-pager is a single-page response to the topic. • It is a way of making your own pattern of your unique understanding. • It is a way to be creative and experimental. • It is a way to respond imaginatively and honestly.
Purpose • It is a way to be brief and compressed in a world drowning in paper. • A one-pager is a valuable way to own what you learn. • We learn best when we can create our own patterns
Directions • Select theme or quote dealing with the assigned topics • Use it as a springboard to explore your own ideas • Use a visual image or images, either drawn or cut out from magazines, to create a central focus for your page
Directions 3. Cluster around this image(s) impressions, feelings, or thoughts regarding what you have read or researched. • Develop a question or two and answer them • the more difficult the questions the better you demonstrate your level of understanding of the material.
Examples One Pagers can be created on plain computer paper, construction paper, or with computer programs like Microsoft Publisher, PowerPoint, or Fireworks. Please use the format that is the most comfortable for you. Thank you Kaleb Jensen for the excellent One Pagers.
Topics and Due Dates • Use your syllabus to identify topics and due dates. • Topics are listed under the assigned chapter headings for each week. You may use any topic in the unit we are studying. • There will be a one pager due prior to each unit exam.
Topics • August 27th • Early inhabitants of the Americas, early explorations, ecological consequences of Columbus’s discovery, introduction of slavery, Spanish and French claims, the rise of mercantilism; The Chesapeake and southern English colonies, ties with Caribbean economies, British mercantilism, New England and the Puritans, religious dissent, colonial politics and conflict with British authority, the middle colonies; Tobacco and rice colonies, African American Culture, colonial family life, dissent in New England and the Witch trials, immigration and demographic change, the Atlantic economy, the Great Awakening, education and culture, colonial politics.