Media Center: TKaM & Raisin in the Sun: History of the Time Period

Assignment:

• Select a topic
• Consult at least three different resources including print, interview, video, film, Internet.
• Take notes on index cards.
• Develop a Works Consulted Page to be turned in on designated date (prior to presentation).
• Select a presentation format from the Making Choices resource.
• Present on the designated day.

Topics:

1. The Great Depression of the 1930s and its Impact on Southern Agriculture
2. Jim Crow Laws: What They Were and Why They Were Enacted
3. The Scottsboro Boys Trials
4. The Ku Klux Klan
5. Prohibition
6. The Montgomery Bus Boycott
7. The Supreme Court Decision: Brown vs. the Board of Education and its Impact in the South
8. Daughters of the Confederacy
9. African American Churches post-Civil War
10. Popular Culture in the 1930s: Radio
11. Popular Culture in the 1930s: Movies
12. The Role of the African American Serviceman in World War II and the Pressure for Civil Rights
13. The Poll Tax and Voting Rights
14. Truman Capote (and his relationship with Harper Lee)
15. Miscegenation Laws: What They Were and When They Were Stricken Down
16. Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s 1st Inaugural Address
17. The New Deal
18. Great Migration
19. Reconstruction after the Civil War
20. The Missouri Compromise
21. The Election of 1876 & The Compromise of 1877
22. Plessy vs. Ferguson 1896
23. The 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments of the Constitution
24. The Confederacy and Civil War
25. Harper Lee
26. Resistance to Change: White Citizens Councils
27. Roll of African American Women in Southern White Households
28. Code-switching
29. Civil Rights Memorials and Monuments in the South
    

Click HERE for online logins

  Gale Virtual Reference Library (ebooks)*

  ABC-CLIO All Databases (magruderhs/mcps)*

   Britannica: general encyclopedia

  History in Context: scroll down the page to locate the icon

  Issues & Controversies in History (magruder/colonels)

 Britannica Image Quest

  SIRS Knowledge Source

  Search through almanacs, encyclopedias, dictionaries, atlases, and a variety of other resources.

 African American Odyssey

Growing up Black/White in the South in the 1930s - two interviews

Gender: Antebellum Household

Search the Magruder catalog for titles related to your topic.

When researching at home using the MCPS Online Services, you will need to access usernames/passwords from your teacher or in your online classroom (Google or myMCPS).  MCPS Online Services are marked with an asterisk (*).

Most of the articles from MCPS Online Services have MLA citations already created at the bottom of the webpage.  Feel free to copy/paste the citations into a text file (ex. Word) as you compile your bibliography.

This is part of the trial subscription offerings.  Refer to your handout for login information.  Trial subscriptions are marked with two asterisks (**).

 OWL (Online Writing Lab) at Purdue University - Citation formats.  Remember to use MLA format.