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What makes a good "description"? Ask yourself "What would sound good in the video?"
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Students will design an digital story using iMovie that identifies the four people, events, and things/objects that best represent the 1920s and 1930s. For each item selected, students are to describe the item and explain the reasons for its selection, emphasizing its impact both then and today.
 * What We Did In Class**


 * U.S. History and Geography HSCEs**
 * 7.1 Growing Crisis of Industrial Capitalism and Responses: Evaluate the key events and decisions surrounding the causes and consequences of the global depression of the 1930s and World War II.
 * 7.1.1 The Twenties – Identify and explain the signiﬁcance of the cultural changes and tensions in the “Roaring Twenties”
 * 7.1.2 Causes and Consequences of the Great Depression – Explain and evaluate the multiple causes and consequences of the Great Depression
 * 7.1.3 The New Deal – Explain and evaluate Roosevelt’s New Deal Policies


 * Explanation of Project - Step-by-Step**
 * 1) Using your notes and Chapters 22 and 23 of your textbook, identify a number (14-18) of people, events, and things/objects that you think represent the 1920s and 1930s. It is important to note that what might represent the 1920s may not represent the 1930s - I think you can figure out why.
 * 2) Separate all these things into People, Events, and Things/Objects and choose four from each that you think best represent either the 1920s or 1930s.
 * 3) Write a description for each of the items you have selected:
 * Describe the person, event, or thing
 * Why did you choose this? Why does it represent or embody the decade you chose it for?
 * 1) Find a decent quality image of each of your items from a useable source. This means that you know you will be able to use it in your project. Places like the Library of # Congress (loc.gov) or Wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org) are great public domain sources.
 * 2) Arrange your images in iMovie and record your explanations in your project to make a narrated or annotated digital story of the 1920s and 1930s.
 * 3) Export this movie from iMovie by clicking Share>Export Movie.

Day 1 - Identify all possible people, events, things/objects Day 2 - Narrow into top 4 for each category and write 4 descriptions Day 4 - Gather images, create iMovie project, arrange images Day 5 - Record narration for movie, export to finish
 * Project Timeline**
 * TODAY** - Finish writing descriptions for all 12 items


 * Homework**

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