Unit 9 Project Overview

Unit 9 Project Overview

Open Ended

If you could be best friends with a character in any animated show, which would you choose?

How successful were the U.S. government's policies in promoting the prosperity of the American people and securing the nation from foreign threats during the 1950s and 1960s?

You will be completing a project that brings together what you have learned about the Cold War. You will be analyzing primary sources and completing activities that answer the overall document-based question:

Unit 9 Cold War Project

Analyze Source C & D and complete two activities to demonstrate your understanding

Day 2

Analyze Source A & B and complete two activities to demonstrate your understanding

Day 1

Project Days

Day 3

Analyze Source E and complete one activity to demonstrate your understanding

Utilize the project checklist for your advantage. This checklist will give you an idea on how your "This or That" responses will be graded. At the end of each project day, the checklist will be available to review before you submit your work. Checking back on your work is key in making sure you get full credit.

Unit 9 Project Checklist

Multiple Select

Which of the following are project expectations mentioned in the project checklist?

• Make sure all parts of the question are answered

• Make sure to follow all directions

• Make sure to include outside research

• Make sure to add incorrect spelling and grammar

The H.I.P.P.O Strategy

H.I.P.P.O. is a strategy historians use to plan, organize, and understand the sources they are examining. The H.I.P.P.O Organizer is not required, however, you can use the H.I.P.P.O strategies to help you analyze your sources.

Historical Context

• Use the information in a source to make connections to what is happening in history at the time it was created. This is, putting the source in historical context!

• Think about what was happening in the U.S. socially, politically, and economically. Think about what was happening in world history as well

Determining the audience for a source helps you understand who the author wants to speak to and why they are an important person, group, or organization to the author.

Think about the person, group, or organization that the source is meant to influence or inform. Keep in mind, sometimes an author may want to speak to more than one audience.

Intended Audience

• Think about the reasons the author created the source.

• Think about what the author hopes will change or happen because of what is in the document.

• In this image, you see Thurgood Marshall at the Supreme Court after his successful argument in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka. Later, Marshall would be the first African American justice appointed to that court..

Purpose

• Identify what you know about the author and the author’s personal background, such as occupation, education, gender, race, and family. Think about the author's condition or circumstances. For example, is the author a person of wealth or power, a political prisoner, or other advantages or disadvantages?

• Think about how that background influences their point of view, in other words, what are their opinions and beliefs?

• In this image, you see a civil rights activist making his point of view known that political leaders need to "wake up" on the issue of civil rights.

Point of View

Recall and review as needed the information and knowledge you have learned beyond what is shown in a source. However, you are not expected to do outside research in a DBQ. All of the sources are provided to you in a DBQ.

Think about the historical facts and information you already know about the time period of the source.

Sources are evidence of a small part of the entire period in history and do not always provide evidence of the big picture.

Outside Information

​Look back on any Unit 9 lessons to refresh your memory. This could help if you are stuck on any of the project questions

Review Unit 9

You can use this Quizziz and/or today's live classroom for reference as you complete the project

Use Available Resources

Please don't hesitate to contact me if you need help! You can send me a chat message, email, or phone call. We can also meet one-on-one via zoom

Ask For Help

Open Ended

Any questions?

Poll

Choose the answer choice that best describes how you feel going into the project

• I understand the project requirements

• I think I understand the project requirements

• I am not sure if I understand the project requirements

• I do not understand the project requirements

Friday 3/21: Day 1 of Project

Monday 3/24: Day 2 of Project

Tuesday 3/25: Day 3 of Project

Wednesday 3/26: First lesson of Unit 10