What is a "One Pager?"
A One-Pager is a way for you to visually and attractively display your understanding of a key concept or reading. One-Pagers are done on computer paper. On one side plan out your design for your one-pager. Then flip over the paper to create it.
Standards for the assignment:
Standards for the assignment:
Theme of the Assignment:
You will focus on the theme, "Continuity and Change," while researching a topic of your choice related to the history of African Americans in this country.
- You may select from any time period in American History.
- You may focus on a particular field of study (economics, geography, technology, government, or culture
- You could select a specific historical figure for your research.
Required Format/Components
FORMATTING:
- It is hand drawn and completed 100% on paper.
- Appropriate title that reflects the topic represented.
- Fills the entire page. Make it colorful.
- Is purposeful about the arrangement of the content included on the One-Pager.
- Example: Have a reason for using a certain color or for placing an object in a certain section.
- Put a symbolic colored border around the edges of the page.
- Use MLA format to cite the sources in a Google Document.
- Select and Analyze 3 primary sources about your chosen topic/person.
- Worksheets for Intermediate or Secondary Students to use for Historical Analysis
- Write two quotations from each of your primary sources, for a total of 6 quotations.
- Use three to five visual images, drawn, to create a focus to your page.
- Include five essential vocabulary/phrases that express main ideas, impressions, feelings or thoughts about what you have seen or read. Not just definitions of terms or a list of vocabulary.
- Write the main idea or a personal response - a comment, a connection, an interpretation, or Most Important Point.
- Address each historic lens: government, culture, technology, economy, & geography in either picture, quotation, or design format.
Black History Month Resources for Research
A Great Place to Start Online:
From Class:
1. Class Assigned Article: 34 Facts about Black History that You May not Know
2. Ted Talk, "Black History is American History"
- The Celebrate Black History page in Canvas is a good place to start.
- You should also check the book table in my classroom under our "Celebrate Black History" bulletin board.
- Information on our country's founding documents from unit 3 are applicable to all topics in American History.
- Some of the more reputable websites for use on these topics include:
From Class:
1. Class Assigned Article: 34 Facts about Black History that You May not Know
2. Ted Talk, "Black History is American History"
- Given by a sophomore in high school, Okalani Dawkins.
- Presentation discusses the importance of integrating black history within the history curriculum in American History courses.
AT THE SMITHSONIAN:
\Links, Information, and Articles are part of the Smithsonian Magazine Website,
FILM:
\Links, Information, and Articles are part of the Smithsonian Magazine Website,
FILM:
- Watch the Oldest-Known Surviving Film by an African-American Director Within Our Gates was Oscar Micheaux’s response to Birth of a Nation.
- About the film: The movie premiered in 1920, five years after D.W. Griffith’s incendiary epic, The Birth of a Nation. Griffith’s movie was the nation’s first blockbuster (Links to an external site.); it was also a love story to the early days of the Ku Klux Klan and it featured racial stereotypes and white actors in blackface.
- When the movie—based on Thomas Dixon's 1905 novel and play, The Clansman--premiered, it faced the outrage of the black community and was the focus of civil rights protests, boycotts and even bannings. It was so inflammatory that it was rumored to have fueled at least one murder.
- In response, Micheaux made Within Our Gates, using a line from Griffith’s film as his title. Like The Birth of a Nation, it portrays a lynching and racial violence—but from a black perspective. Though it was made on a slender budget and aimed at a black audience, it became a rare crossover) that found success with white audiences, too. That being said, Southern movie theaters boycotted the film, and it was only issued in a limited release because theaters feared violent reactions from white audiences during the lynching scenes.
- About the film: The movie premiered in 1920, five years after D.W. Griffith’s incendiary epic, The Birth of a Nation. Griffith’s movie was the nation’s first blockbuster (Links to an external site.); it was also a love story to the early days of the Ku Klux Klan and it featured racial stereotypes and white actors in blackface.
- What the Director of the African American History Museum Says About the New Emmett Till RevelationsDecades after his death, the wife of his murderer confesses she lied under oath.
- Celebrate Black History Month with the Smithsonian
- Scroll to the bottom to access a variety of videos hosted by the Smithsonian Institute.
- Since this article is from 2012, most of the article links are no longer active. However, there are some great videos for American History at the bottom of the article.