Group Assignment USA.

 

Your job is to create a written summary of one period in the American history, max 3 machine written pages. This written summary should be presented and explained to your classmates, max 15 minutes.

 

If you produce the written summary, you don’t have to make the oral presentation. The whole group have to work with the assignment, those of you that make the oral presentation will get IG if you only read out loud from the summary.

 

The groups:

 

  1. What were the causes of the American Revolution and how was the first constitution formed in the US?
    1. You should look on both long-term and short-term causes.
    2. You shouldn’t care about the actual course of the war, that means no military history.
    3. You should also explain why the constitution in USA looks like it does, whith a Senate, House of representatives, President and Supreme Court.
  2. Causes and effects of the Civil War.
    1. Long-term and short-term causes.
    2. Why did the North win?
    3. How did this affect American politics in the next 20 – 30 years?
    4. What effects of the civil war can we spot in the US today?
  3. How did the waves of immigrants affect the US?
    1. Show how the Building of an American feeling of national belonging was done.
    2. Where did the immigrants come from, how did this vary in time and where did they settle?
  4. How did the US deal with the native Americans?
    1. What happened?
    2. Why did this happen?
  5. US Foreign Policy 1890 – 1945.
    1. Show the American anti-imperialism and the tension between the US and the UK during this period.
    2. What was the Monroe-doctrine, how did it affect the Latin American states?

 

Time table:

 

Mon 30 Jan – Wed 8 Feb                          You work with this.

Mon 13 Feb                                               Group 1 – 3 make your presentations.

Wed 15 Feb                                             Group 4 – 5 presentations.

Week 9                                                      2 lessons My summaries of this.

Wed 8 Mar                                                My summaries of this.

Mon 13 Mar                                              Test on the US.

 

 

 

 

 

 

How to write a summary:

 

q       Focus around an important event.

q       Explain why this event occurred.

q       Use both long-term and short-term explanations.

q       Use structural explanations, such as how this affected the middle class or the economy or the rulers etc.

q       Explain what consequences the event had on future events.

q       Don’t drown in details such as names or dates.

q       Use a well structured disposition in your summary:

o       Event.

§         What happened

§         Why this happened

·        Long term

·        Short term

·        Structural

§         Consequences on future events.

 

How to make an oral presentation:

 

q       It is strictly forbidden to read out loud from a paper.

q       You should have notes containing the structure of your explanation. This can be taken from your summaries.

q       You have to use the white board or Overhead-projector, otherwise none will be able to take notes or learn anything.

q       We are lucky to be in Ka 26 so you can use the computer.

q       OH should be in points, never smaller than 16 pt types.

q       Your OH-pictures should be related to your summaries, your class mates must be able to follow your presentations on your summaries.

 

 

 

 

Group nr

Students in the group:

1

Maya, Felicia, Rasmus, Kinga, Emil C and Hannah

2

Filip, Erica F, Victoria, Roy, Henrik and Per

3

Emelie Jensert, Lihang, Emelie Joh, Sahar, Emil L and Jakob

4

Magdalena, Madeleine, Cesar, Natalija, Anna and Elaha

5

Asa, Marina, Erik, Erica W, Alicia, Lennart and Frida