History of Latin America (BHS 2019-2020) (Period 6) Assignments

Learning Target: Understand how your topic can be told as a Hero's Journey
Success Criteria: Submit completed video

9:30-9:59 minutes long
Ken Burns Effect
Say Dog, See Dog
Hero's Journey
Breaking Barriers in History
VIDEO SUBMISSION DUE AT THE END OF YOUR FINALS PERIOD!!!
ALL GROUP MEMBERS MUST SUBMIT ALL PARTS!!!

Learning Target: Understand how your topic can be told as a Hero's Journey
Success Criteria: Gather and create assets for your video

1) ONE of you will create a WeVideo project and add your group.
-Log in to WeVideo
-Click the "Projects" tab at the top
-Click the blue "+" on the bottom right of the screen
-For the title, put "Semester 1 Final NAMES NAMES NAMES" FIRST AND LAST NAMES!
-Click "collaborative" under Project Type, then click "Next"
-When the "Select Group" Dialog pops up, click "History of Latin America"
-Select your team mates. Click Next, and then Next again.
Congratulations! You have created a shared project for all of you to work on at the same time!

2) RECORD YOUR SCRIPT!!! It needs to be 9:30-9:59 in length. MAKE SURE THAT YOUR DETAILS FIT THE HERO'S JOURNEY FORMAT AND THAT IT EXPLAINS HOW YOUR CHARACTER BROKE BARRIERS IN HISTORY!

3) Find images and video relevant to your story. "Say Dog, See Dog." COPY THE URL WHERE YOU FIND THE IMAGE!!! Paste that as a source in you Annotated Bibliography, and write 2-3 sentences about the image. IMMEDIATELY upload them to your WeVideo so you don't lose them. Use the Youtube downloader below link to download videos from Youtube.

Learning Target: Understand how your topic can be told as a Hero's Journey
Success Criteria: Create a Hero's Journey and annotated bibliography of your sources.

Use the attached Google Doc to tell your Hero's Journey and create an annotated bibliography.

Minimum of 20 sources.
Hero's Journey should be your script.

The 2019-2020 theme is "Breaking Barriers in History."

Watch the video of Ken Burns discussing "Breaking Barriers in History" and clips from his documentaries.

Your team will select a story from Latin American history in which barriers were broken. It can be about an inspiring individual, a historical event, an invention - anything that fits the theme of "Breaking Barriers in History."

Do this on the Doc "Topic Selection" from before - ALL MEMBERS MUST SUBMIT THIS!!!

Here is a list of ones you may want to select:

Haitian Independence/Toussaint L'Overture
Simon Bolivar and his revolutions
Father Miguel Hidalgo and the Mexican Revolution
Current protests in Latin America (Cacerolazo, see link)
Latin American Artists (Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, David Alfaro Siqueros, Selena, Shakira)
First Americans who crossed the land bridge
Fidel Castro
Che Guevara
Pancho Villa
Eva Peron
Rigoberta Menchú
Dandara of Palmares
Policarpa Salavarrieta
Manuela Saenz
Juana Azurduy
Evangelina Rodriguez
Hermila Galindo
The Mirabal sisters (Patria, Minerva, and Maria Teresa)
The Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo
Damas de Blanco
Marielle Franco - LGBT rights
Zumbi dos Pal
Gaspar Yanga

Create a group of no more than 3 members. You make work individually if you would like to.

Put your names on a shared Google Doc. The doc should be called should be "Topic Selection (Names)."

Please submit this Doc on this assignment. ONCE YOU CHOOSE YOUR GROUP YOU CANNOT CHANGE IT!

If you KNOW someone won't participate and will just hang out till the end and get the same grade as you for doing nothing, YOU DO NOT HAVE TO WORK WITH THEM!! Be VERY selective about your team mates. Sometimes friends do not make the best work partners.

Learning Target: Understand who the leaders in Latin American Independence were, and why they fought for independence.
Success Criteria: Create a video about 1 of the leaders in Latin American independence.

Create a new project on WeVideo.
Your video will be between 4-6 minutes long.

Your video will include the following sections (In order, with titles for each section):
- The background of the conflict in the country
- Background of the Character
- The actions the leader took in the revolution
- How the revolution concluded
- The lasting impact of the revolution
- Your thoughts on this character

You will record BOTH of the partners voices in the video (if working with a partner)
You MUST use the Ken Burns effect on ALL still images.
You MUST submit a written script on the attached Google Doc.
NO PLAGIARISM ALLOWED!!!

Make a numbered list of 15 notes for each of the 2 videos you watched on the attached Google Doc.
YOU MAY NOT DO THIS IF YOUR VIDEO IS NOT COMPLETE!!!

Learning Target: Understand the beginning of Independence of Spanish America
Success Criteria: Summarize the Section in bullet points.

Read this section.
Take notes after each paragraph in RED (already divided up for you)
Your notes should be bullet points of important/Interesting stuff you read in the paragraph, 5 required

WHEN DONE: Write a 1 paragraph (6 sentences MINIMUM) reflection/reaction to the reading.

Learning Target: Understand the causes and actions in The Haitian Revolution
Success Criteria: Take 30 full sentence notes from the video.

Please watch the video.
Make a numbered list of 30 notes from the video. DO NOT copy the closed captioning - please write in your own voice (don’t copy the videos words, say it like you say it)

THIS IS A TODAY IN CLASS ASSIGNMENT! I WILL NOT ACCEPT THIS BEYOND 3pm!!!

Learning Target: Understand the causes and actions in Latin American Revolutions.
Success Criteria: Take 30 full sentence notes from the video.

Please watch the video.
Make a numbered list of 30 notes from the video. DO NOT copy the closed captioning - please write in your own voice.

Learning Target: Understand why the Spanish Empire Fell
Success Criteria: Annotate the article and write a paragraph analyzing how the Spanish Empire Fell.

1) Read through the article without annotating, read for understanding.
2) Read the article again, this time highlight in RED the words or phrases that are difficult to understand.
3) Read the article a 3rd time, this time highlighting the main idea of each section in YELLOW.
4) Copy and paste all of your yellow main ideas below the article.
5) Write a paragraph analyzing how the Spanish Empire fell. What could have prevented it? Do you think this would be a good thing or a bad thing for the people in Latin America?

Learning Target: Students will understand how different mixes of races were considered in New Spain
Success Criteria: Take notes and reflect on the article about race in New Spain.

Read the attached article. Highlight main ideas in yellow. Highlight new ideas or words in red.
At the end, please paste all of your yellow highlighted main ideas.
Then, write a 1 paragraph reaction to the article.
Then, write a 1 paragraph reaction to the painting.

Learning Target: Understand how Spain colonized "New Spain"
Success Criteria: Summarize the creation of "New Spain"

Make a numbered list of 20 full sentence notes from the video on the attached Google Doc.
Write a 1 paragraph reaction to colonization. What do YOU think about it? Talk about stuff from the video.

Día de Muertos is here!

The Day of the Dead (Spanish: Día de Muertos) is a Mexican holiday celebrated throughout Mexico, in particular the Central and South regions, and by people of Mexican heritage elsewhere. The multi-day holiday involves family and friends gathering to pray for and remember friends and family members who have died, and helping support their spiritual journey. In Mexican culture, death is viewed as a natural part of the human cycle. Mexicans view it not as a day of sadness but as a day of celebration because their loved ones awake and celebrate with them.

I would love to see you and your family enjoy the festivities! Do not feel like you have to participate in the religious aspect of this festival, but instead see yourself as an explorer observing a new culture without judgement.

There are various celebrations going on all over Southern California. I have given you a link to one in Riverside taking place on November 2nd.

The assignment: Film and edit a video where you are at one of these celebrations, discussing the different things you are seeing and learning about. You must interview people as well.

Requirements:
1) Video must be 2-3 minutes in length
2) Video needs a title/introduction
3) Video must have YOUR FACE in it, talking about the things you are learning
4) Video must have a minimum of 3 interviews with different people participating or performing in the event about what the holiday means to them. Follow the tips in the document below as well as the video showing how to conduct interviews.
5) Video must include you concluding what you learned and experienced at the event.

Learning Target: Understand how Spain colonized "New Spain"
Success Criteria: Summarize the creation of "New Spain"

Make a numbered list of 20 full sentence notes from the video on the attached Google Doc.

Learning Target: Understand the purposes of Colonialism and the ways in which it was expressed in Latin America
Success Criteria: Annotate the article and write a paragraph analyzing how the indigenous peoples in the Americas were affected both long and short term by Colonialism.

1) Read through the article without annotating, read for understanding.
2) Read the article again, this time highlight in RED the words or phrases that are difficult to understand.
3) Read the article a 3rd time, this time highlighting the main idea of each section in YELLOW.
4) Copy and paste all of your yellow main ideas below the article.
5) Write a paragraph analyzing how the indigenous peoples in the Americas were affected both long and short term by Colonialism.

Learning Target: Evaluate the significance of the first ever commercial done in the Nahuatl language.
Success Criteria: Summarize the article and evaluate the significance of the commercial.

The first commercial EVER done in Nahuatl, the main language of the Aztecs, played this weekend!

Read the article.
Watch the video.
Write 1 paragraph where you summarize the article and commercial.
In another paragraph, discuss why it might be important for Mexican to do commercials in indigenous languages.

Learning Target: Analyze the current crisis in Chile.
Success Criteria: Create a news video discussing the crisis in Chile.

1) Read the article "Chile crisis: Fearlessness and anger drive protesters."
2) Summarize the article into 6 bullet points
3) Find at least 15 images FROM THE CHILE CRISIS that tell the story of your bullet points.
4) Create a news video using text like the one below.
5) Video should be between 45 seconds to 1 minute.
6) Must be done INDIVIDUALLY
7) Use the Ken Burns effect
8) Use APPROPRIATE background music from WeVideo

Extra Credit! WATCH THIS WITH YOUR FAMILY!!!

As you watch (with your family) the documentary please make a numbered list of 50 full sentence notes. The notes MUST cover the entire movie, make sure to spread them out, and must be what YOU learned, not just parroting the video. (500 points)

After your numbered list, please write your reaction to the video in a complete paragraph (6 complete sentences minimum). (100 points)

Finally, have a discussion with your family. Please tell them about other things you learned about the conquest of the Incas. Write down 10 quotes from your family members about their reaction to this. (10 minimum) (100 points)

Learning Target: Understand the role interpreters played in the destruction of the Aztec people
Success Criteria: Write a paragraph comparing "Malinche" to modern terms.

Watch the video. Create a numbered list of 30 notes in complete sentences.
After, write 1 paragraph. Why is the name "Malinche" used as a negative term in Latin America? What does it mean? Compare the term "malinche" with other modern terms used today to describe that situation

Learning Target: Understand the beginning of Spanish America
Success Criteria: Summarize the Section in bullet points.

Read this section.
Take notes after each paragraph in RED (already divided up for you)
Your notes should be bullet points of important/Interesting stuff you read in the paragraph, 5 required

WHEN DONE: Write a 1 paragraph (6 sentences MINIMUM) reaction to the reading. How did it make you feel? How could this situation have gone differently?

Learning Target: Understand the fall of the Aztec and Inca Empires.
Success Criteria: Summarize the Section in bullet points.

Read this section.
Take notes after each paragraph in RED (already divided up for you)
Your notes should be bullet points of important/Interesting stuff you read in the paragraph, 5 required

WHEN DONE: Write a 1 paragraph (6 sentences MINIMUM) reaction to the reading. How did it make you feel? How could this situation have gone differently?

Learning Target: Understand the horrors of the Middle Passage
Success Criteria: Translate/Paraphrase the passage by Olaudah Equiano into regular, modern, understandable English. Produce a video with relevant images (using the Ken Burns effect) to share your translation. Evaluate whether the cost of slavery was worth it.

You may work with a partner
1) Read the passage by Olaudah Equiano.
2) Translate/Paraphrase it into understandable modern language on the attached Google Doc.
3) Write a paragraph where you evaluate whether the cost of slavery is worth it.
4) Produce a video on WeVideo using a minimum of 15 images that are visual representations of the your paraphrase and evaluation. All partners voices must be heard on the video reading different sections.
5) Share the WeVideo link and your Google Doc as your answer.

Extra Credit! WATCH THIS WITH YOUR FAMILY!!!

As you watch (with your family) the documentary "The Price of Sugar," please make a numbered list of 50 full sentence notes. The notes MUST cover the entire movie, make sure to spread them out, and must be what YOU learned, not just parroting the video.

After your numbered list, please write your reaction to the video in a complete paragraph (6 complete sentences minimum).

Finally, have a discussion with your family. Please tell them about the Portuguese doing this same thing since the 1500's (the Brazil chapter). Write down 10 quotes from your family members about their reaction to this. (10 minimum)

Learning Target: Understand the extent and details of the Atlantic Slave Trade
Success Criteria: Respond to the the prompts on the Google Doc.

Please watch the video. The answers MUST be your own! Plagiarism will receive ZERO points and will not be allowed to redo! DO NOT COPY FROM ANOTHER PERSON OR WEBSITE!

Learning Target: Understand the exploitation of Africans as slaves in the New World.
Success Criteria: Summarize the Section in bullet points.

Read this section.
Take notes after each paragraph in RED (already divided up for you)
Your notes should be bullet points of important/Interesting stuff you read in the paragraph, 5 required

WHEN DONE: Write a 1 paragraph (6 sentences MINIMUM) reaction to the reading. How did it make you feel? How could this situation have gone differently?

Learning Target: Understand the pattern of exploitation in early Brazilian colonization.
Success Criteria: Summarize the Section in bullet points.

Read this section.
Take notes after each paragraph in RED (already divided up for you)
Your notes should be bullet points of important/Interesting stuff you read in the paragraph, 5 required

Learning Target: Know that some states have changed Columbus Day to Indigenous Peoples Day
Success Criteria: Summarize an article about Indigenous Peoples Day and describe your perspective.

Woohoo!!! Maine, New Mexico, and Vermont all are getting rid of Columbus Day THIS YEAR!
Writing letters, like you guys did, MAKE REAL CHANGE HAPPEN!!!

Read this article and write 2 paragraphs.
1) Summarize the article. 6 sentences minimum
2) What do you think of things like this? Do you think that your letter can help make change in California?

Watch the Video.

Make a numbered list of notes. You can get up to 300 points extra credit (30 notes).
YOU MUST COMPLETE THE COLUMBUS DAY LETTERS BEFORE YOU CAN DO THIS! (all 6 files).

Learning Target - Write 3 formal letters
Success Criteria - Write a letter to your congress people about changing Columbus day

Write formal letters to your congress people! (Raul Ruiz, Kamala Harris, Diane Feinstein)
Let them know what you think of Columbus Day!
3 Paragraphs
Formal Letter Format
Must include solutions to the problem.

Turn in your 3 letters and 3 screenshots of you emailing the letter to the congressperson. (6 files total)

Learning Target: Students will understand the effect of Columbus on the Taino People
Success Criteria: Describe your feelings about Columbus and discuss his activity in the Americas

Read the article.
On the attached Google Doc, answer the Quiz Questions.
After answering the questions, write 3 paragraphs.
1) What was you impression about Columbus before reading this article?
2) Summarize the article. Use at least 3 quotes.
3) What do you feel about Columbus now? How has it changed?

Learning Target: Know how the Spanish conquered the Aztec Empire
Success Criteria: Take notes from the video about the conquest of the Aztecs

As you watch the video, create a numbered list of 40 notes in complete sentences on the attached Google Doc. Tell the whole story of Cortez and the Aztecs.

Learning Target: Utilize technology tools to transmit Pre-Colombian Indigenous Creation Stories.
Success Criteria: Use all of your assets to create an animated telling of the creation story you chose.

Use WeVideo to complete.
Video must be 3-5 minuted in length
Video must accurately tell the creation story
Characters must be transparencies and be animated
Effective and appropriate background music MUST be utilized
Background must be used to show the setting

Submit a link to the video here as your answer.

Learning Target: Utilize technology tools to transmit Pre-Colombian Indigenous Creation Stories.
Success Criteria: Record your script on WeVideo

Go to wevideo.com
In the media tab, select the voice recorder tool.
Using one of the class microphones, record your script. If you mess up, don't start over! Save the recording and start a new one a little before you messed up, we can always edit them later!

I LOVE Pozole! A delicious, amazing Mexican stew that takes me back to my childhood - my abuelita loved to make it for us!

Never had it? THIS IS YOUR CHANCE!!!

First, read the attached article, "El origen del Pozole (The origin of Pozole)." Really neat story!
If you can't read Spanish, watch the video below about how to use the Translate add-on for Google Docs.

Next, go to the store and get the ingredients for the recipe below. There is a pork recipe and a chicken recipe (If your family already has a recipe use that!).

Film yourself making Pozole! As you film yourself (I recommend using a phone), discuss the article, the history, and your opinion about the article. Finish the video with you and your family/guardians eating the Pozole and discuss what you like/dislike about it - your own little food review! How does your family feel about the history of Pozole? Maybe don't tell them and get some reaction shots and tell them as they are eating it? Hahahahaha!!!

Upload the video to Youtube and submit the link as your answer. Your video should be between 2 and 4 minutes long.

Buen Provecho!

Collect your assets for your video!
Backgrounds
Characters

Learning Target: Make a visual representation of the Creation story you chose.
Success Criteria: Using your COMPLETED script, create a storyboard of the video you propose to make.

Imagine each square is the screen - what does it look like? How will it move?
Draw it! Include all of the dialogue or actions on the screen, like the example below.

Learning Target: Tell one of the Creation Stories discussed in class.
Success Criteria: Choose one of the creation stories. Write a script for your video.

You MAY work with ONE partner.

Your script should be between 3-5 minutes long.

BOTH partners must submit the script for grading.

The script should NOT use difficult words - imagine that you are making this video for an 8 year old. (The names should be accurate, but instead of saying something like "illustrative purposes" you should say " to show that")

You MAY use dialogue, but mostly this should be a narration of the story.

Learning Target: Compare/Contrast the 3 different Creation Stories we have learned about in class.
Success Criteria: Create a Triptych detailing the 3 creation stories we learned about in class.

A triptych is a work of art (usually a panel painting) that is divided into three sections, or three carved panels that are hinged together and can be folded shut or displayed open.

Each section should contain:
1) The name of the Culture
2) Detail the story
3) Draw images that tell the story
4) Images and borders and art should be in the style of the culture
5) Detail the things this shows about the culture.

TAKE A PICTURE OF YOUR COMPLETED TRIPTYCH AND SUBMIT IT HERE AS YOUR ANSWER!!!

Learning Target: Understand the Aztec Creation story and what features of it reflect Aztec culture.
Success Criteria: Summarize the Aztec creation story and analyze how it reflects Aztec culture.

Creation stories often tell us what is important to a people.

Watch the Aztec Creation story. Read the linked article.

Respond in 3 paragraphs.
Paragraph 1) Summarize the story of the first two suns
Paragraph 2) Summarize the story after after that
Paragraph 3) Discuss what things you can surmise are important to the Aztec Culture. Use the link below to see an analysis of what how the myth reflects Aztec culture.

Learning Target: Understand the Inca Creation story and what features of it reflect Mayan culture.
Success Criteria: Summarize the Inca Creation story and analyze how it reflects Inca culture.

Creation stories often tell us what is important to a people.

Watch the Inca Creation story

Respond in 3 paragraphs.
Paragraph 1) Summarize the story up until 1:40, the journey of the husband/wife
Paragraph 2) Summarize the story after 1:40
Paragraph 3) Discuss what things you can surmise are important to the Inca Culture. Discuss the quote below as it relates to the creation story.

These origin myths also reveal the ethnocentric world-view of the Quechuans: the Inca believed in the inherent superiority and wisdom of their own people, thinking they were destined to refine the mankind whether other peoples accepted it or not. That could be inferred also from the names of the country and its capital. The name of the Inca empire Tahuantinsuyu stands for "the country of four points of compass." Most chroniclers argue that Cuzco means "the center of the world or the world pole."

Learning Target: Understand the Mayan Creation story and what features of it reflect Mayan culture.
Success Criteria: Summarize the Popol Vu and analyze how it reflects Mayan culture.

Creation stories often tell us what is important to a people.

Watch the Maya creation story, The Popol Vu.

Respond in 3 paragraphs.
Paragraph 1) Summarize the story up until the twins
Paragraph 2) Summarize the story of the twins
Paragraph 3) Discuss what things you can surmise are important to the Maya Culture. Discuss the quote below as it relates to the creation story.

(For name Spelling, there is a transcript of the video attached)
“Our Creation Story teaches us that the first Grandparents of our people were made from white and yellow corn. Maize is sacred to us because it connects us with our ancestors. It feeds our spirit as well as our bodies.” Juana Batz Puac, K’iche’ Maya, Day Keeper

Play the game "Responsibility Launcher"
(Allow the Flash Player!) (You do NOT need to register)

As you play the 5 levels, take 2 screen shots per level - 1 of game play and 1 of your score at the end of the level.

Make a Google Slideshow Presentation titled "Responsibility Launcher MY NAME" but put your name in the MY NAME spot). 7 slides total. Each slide needs Images

Slide 1) Title Slide, add name

Slide 2-6) Each of these slides will be for a level of the game. Include your 2 screenshots for the level and 3 bullet points about what you learned from that level.

Slide 7) What were some things you learned from playing the game? 5 bullet points

Log in to Pearson first using Clever

Watch the VIDEO.

Summarize the video using a numbered list of a minimum of 20 , covering information from the beginning to the end of the video.

Wow! New evidence ALL THE TIME!
Give this a read. Please create a Google Doc and write 2 paragraphs (6 sentences each).
1) Summarize the main points of the article
2) What could this mean about our understanding of history? What does it change?

Is it ever ok to break the law? Where is your line: when would you break the law? Are people punished too harshly? Is punishment not even or fair? (2 Paragraphs)

Read. Complete the writing activity and the quiz.
Sorry guys, I broke my tailbone on Sunday, can barely get out of bed. Thanks for being good while the sub is here.
Please make sure to charge your chrome books!

Learning Target: Understand the scientific theory of how the Western Continents were populated.
Success Criteria: Summarize the main points of the Ice Age Columbus Documentary.

Watch the attached Documentary.

You will receive 300 points for the first 30 numbered-list notes that you take from the video (full sentences, IN YOUR OWN WORDS!!!) (required assignment)

You may receive an additional 200 points extra credit for 20 more notes!

You can get an ADDITIONAL 500 points if you watch this documentary at home with your family! Take a picture of you and your family watching this together, attach it, and watch those extra points come rolling in!

Learning Target: Understand the scientific theory of how the Western Continents were populated.
Success Criteria: Summarize the main points of the Land Bridge Theory in 1 paragraph.

Highlight the main idea of each section in Yellow. Highlight new words or ideas in Red. Complete the Quiz. Write a 1 paragraph summary.

Learning Target: Present 2 world issues , understand all of the world issues
Success Criteria: Present 2 slideshows detailing the issue, why its important, who it affects, and the causes of the issue. Take notes on the other presentations

As you present, make sure to talk about the discussion questions.

As other students present, please take notes on their presentation on the attached Google Doc.

Please make sure you separate each section by the name of the issue in BOLD.

5 bullet points minimum per issue.

When all of the presentations are done, write 1 paragraph discussing some stuff that you learned. What did you not know before?
In a second paragraph, discuss which issue that YOU think you would like to help fix. Why do you think it is important?
(A paragraph is a minimum of 6 complete sentences)

Learning Target: Understand 2 world issues well
Success Criteria: Create 2 slideshows detailing the issue, why its important, who it affects, and the causes of the issue.

Send someone in your group to get 2 stacks of Issue Cards from the front of the room (you will return them at the end of the period) For example, your group would have the entire stack of Environment and Education. Pass them out to everyone in your group of 5.
Read the 2 issue Cards aloud in your groups.
Discuss the questions listed on the back. You should take notes on what they
discuss, with special emphasis on the following:
► What is the issue?
► Why is it important?
► Who does it affect?
► What causes the issue?

Create 2 google slides presentations, one for each issue card, addressing the questions above.

Learning Target: Understand the current political situation causing problems in Venezuela
Success Criteria:
As you watch this video, make a numbered list of 20 full sentence notes on the attached Google Doc.
The notes must com from across the ENTIRE video (beginning to end).
Do NOT copy the CC words from the screen, the notes must be in your own words (tell me what YOU understand)

After the numbered list, write 1 full paragraph about your impressions from the video (at least 6 complete sentences).

Read the NewsELA article.
Log in to NewsELA (directions below)

Highlight in YELLOW the main idea of each paragraph
Highlight in RED new words or ideas
Complete the Quiz
Complete the Writing assignment in Google Classroom (attached Google Doc)

You may work with a partner to complete this activity. Please use a numbered list.

Complete the Google Doc. You may work with a partner, but both must turn in the Doc.