Optional Assignments and Interesting Projects in Modern European History. 

 

PLEASE REMEMBER

Please let Ms Harrison know you are planning to present an optional assignment so that it is placed on the class schedule.

No one is required to complete any of the optional projects.

Students are not entitled to points simply because they do a project.

 

Optional assignments are graded like any other work and points are added to the total number of points earned for the quarter.

 

TO GET CREDIT FOR AN OPITONAL ASSIGNMENT, YOU MUST HAVE ALL OTHER WORK TURNED IN.

 

ALL late assignments must be turned in, a zero will remain in the grade book, however, the student would then be eligible for optional work.

 

OPTIONAL ASSIGNMENTS MAY NOT BE TURNED IN LATE FOR ANY REASON

 

WORK NOT INCLUDING A CORRECT, COMPLETE CITATION FOR ALL SOURCES WILL NOT BE GRADED.

 

INCOMPLETE, MESSY, OR OTHERWISE UNSUITABLE WORK WILL NOT BE GRADED.

 

No groups or partners -- I.E., Individual projects only will be accepted, EXCEPT where specifically noted.

 Presentation is required for full credit. Not more than 50% credit will be earned without presenting to the class.

Optional also means that, depending on circumstances, I may decide not to include the credit in your grade.

Plagiarism will earn a student a ZERO for the optional assignment. It will affect your grade.

Remember if you can find it online, I can find it online.

Second Semester

Optional Assignments

Modern European History

Third Quarter

Theme of Assignments -- Social Justice

Unit 2 OPTIONAL

Assignment (#1)

Tribute to the Rescuers DUE NLT 2/20/09 See bottom of page for full instructions

Assignment (#2)

Origins of Socialism

A formal report on one of the following:

Count Claude Henry de Saint-Simon

Charles Fourier

Louis Blanc

Pierre Joseph Proudhon

Chartism

The Grand National Consolidated Trade Union

Karl Marx

Frederich Engles

Robert Owen

Law Day Contest -- Equity before the Law (see Ms Harrison)

Your report must in some way address the question of social justice, but must not infer that socialism is the only means by which social justice can be obtained.

A formal report means:

Fourth Quarter

 

 

FIRST Semester

Optional Assignments

Modern European History

 

Unit 0 OPTIONAL Assignment (#1)

Black Death/Aids Project

Due NOT LATER THAN Friday October 10, 2008
Maximum available points 50.   

Diseases like the Black Death and Aids have social and economic consequences.  They also have significant psychological effects on the people who live during the era of the epidemic. 

Your project will compare and contrast the Black Death with the 20th Century Aids epidemic.

Address the following issues for each disease:

 

 

OPTIONAL ASSIGNMENT (#2) Due NOT LATER THAN Tuesday before Thanksgiving break. 

Special Enrichment Unit  on Women’s History: ANCIENT Greece & Rome, Early Modern Europe (fall of Rome to about 1750), through the 19th Century (1750 - 1900 but not beyond 1900)

A GROUP OF NOT MORE THAN 3 STUDENTS MAY SUBMIT THIS PROJECT.

The following Resources are a good place to start.

World History: Modern Times, Spielvogel Selected Readings (see Ms Harrison)

The Six Wives of Henry VIII, Alison Weir -- Introduction

A Vindication of the Rights of Women, Mary Wollstonecraft -- Primary Document

The Social Demensions of Western Civilization, Richard M. Golden -- selected readings (See Ms Harrison).

Additional Research is necessary

(up to 100 points may be given for research and presentation.  Submitting a research report without presentation will earn not more than 50 points.) 

Variation on the above assignment (50 Points). DUE NOT LATER THAN Tuesday before Thanksgiving Break

Individual only, no groups.

lCHOOSE ONE OF HENRY VIII’S WIVES lREPORT ON HER LIFE l

PRESENTATION with VISUAL AID on Monday Nov 19 or Tuesday Nov 20.

OPTIONAL Assignment #3 (75 points) Due Date TBA

Choose ONE of the following books to complete a book review:

Books You may choose from

(Click book review for instructions)

Outside Opportunities

for which you may receive

Opitonal Credit

Tribute to the Rescuers -- Institute for Holocaust Education.

You must let me know by November 3, if you are interested in completing this assignment.  Credit will be given 3rd quarter.

Once I tell the ADL how many people would like to participate, you will be required to follow through.

Submission dates are Nov. 3rd, 2008-Feb. 26th, 2009.  Essays will be judged in March, and the Awards Night will be in late April.  Last year, Holocaust survivor, activist and author Roman Kent honored essay winners as the keynote speaker; we would love for you to be a part of this special evening.

100 points -- you must enter the contest to fulfill the criteria for this optional credit.