Black History Power Point

Due Date:
Friday, March 5th

Presentations will be next week

Directions:

1. Pick a black historical figure, do research & take notes
2. From your research, create an outline. Include what type of media (pictures, video, audio) you plan to include.
3. Refine your outline & organize it by slides. Collect your media.
4. Start building your Powerpoint presentation. Plug in info & media.
5. Pair up and revise your presentations.
   
6. Finish and present your project to the class.

Structure:

When structuring your presentation, think of how an encyclopedia article would be organized.

1. Summary - who was the person, his/her most well-known accomplishments
2. Early life - birth, family and childhood
3. Influences - what people and/or ideas inspired and influenced your subject (for Martin Luther King Jr. - Ghandi, the Black Church, populism...)
4. Accomplishments - list your subject's accomplishments in chronological order
5. Assasination or later life
6. Legacy - what influence has your subject had on future activists, our society and culture?

Requirements:

• Must have at least 10 slides
• At least 5 pictures
• One piece of multimedia (video or audio)

Grading Breakdown:

You will be given multiple grades for different aspects of this assignment:

• Your outline
• Content of your Powerpoint
• Asthetics of your Powerpoint (design, flow of information, bells and whistles...)
  
• Your presentation - how you deliver your presentation in front of the class

Black Historical Figures:

Rosa Parks
Marcus Garvey
Malcolm X
Thurgood Marshall
Louise Bennett
Frederick Douglas
W. E. B. DuBois
Nelson Mandela
Emmit Till
Martin Luther King Jr.
John Hope Franklin
Dick Gregory
Jesse Jackson
Barack Obama
Black Panther Party
Booker T. Washington

Blast from the Past!

On the website retrojunk.com, find a commercial from your childhood. Post a link to it on your blog, along with a still image from the commercial.

Write a short paragraph about your memory of this commercial, and how it fits in with your childhood.

For instance, I remember this commercial for frosted cheerios with a creepy dude looking into the box and raving about the frosted O's.

Getting the screen-shot:

1. Pause on the frame you want to capture.
2. Press the "Print Screen" button in the top right of your keyboard.
3. Open Microsoft Paint.
4. Paste the screen-shot into your paint document.
5. Crop the image:

• Select the frame
• Drag to the top left corner.
• Drag the bottom left corner of your document to crop.
• Save as a JPG file.