Unit 3 Culminating Project: Social Studies
A Fight for a Continent
Task: You will create a scrapbook of the unit “Fight for a Continent” in which youwill collect examples of
cooperation and conflict
among American Indian nationsand between American Indian groups and European settlers.
Part 1: Cover
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Must include the following:
Title
Name
Illustration of something that caused cooperation
and
an example of something that caused conflict.Due date for Part 1 _________________________
Part 2: Evidence of Knowledge
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Must include the following:
10 or more events, documents,
or
people relating to the theme
cooperation and conflict
.
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Entries will have two parts: a picture of the artifact and a writtenexplanation.
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Entries may be
written neatly or typed.
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Pictures may be
drawn or be images from online sources.
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Pictures
must include an explanation of how it is an example of either cooperation or conflict and what the event was. Thisshould be at least a paragraph in length.Due date for Part 2 _________________________
Part 3: American Indian Viewpoint
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Based on Chief Tecumseh’s speech and what we learned in the unit, write aspeech
(2-3 paragraphs)
giving the viewpoint of an American Indian fromone of the groups we learned about in the unit. You are to imagine that youare a member of an American Indian tribe writing a persuasive speech toconvince a colonist that what he/she is doing to your people is wrong.Due date for Part 3 _________________________
Part 4: Early Settler Point of View
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Based on John Gast’s painting “American Progress” and what we learned inthe unit, create your own “American Progress” drawings.Due date for Part 4 _________________________ Completed Scrapbook is due _______________________
Olabuenaga, 2011
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