1920s and 1930s Presentations

With your group, make a 15 minute presentation on your assigned country and its
development in the 1920s and 1930s (for Japan, extend this period back to the 1900s). Your
task is to teach your classmates, who have not done the reading, about the critical
developments in your country as we draw closer to World War II.

For your presentation:
1) Individually, you must each have a speaking role
2) as a group, you must use the white-board
3) as a group, you must use multimedia (video, photographs, posters, etc.) from the time
4) as a group, you must use at least one primary source
5) as a group, you must use a chart/diagram/graph of some kind
6) as a group, you must create a handout of key terms from your reading
7) as a group, you must create a Chicago style, properly formatted, Works Cited list that
you will turn in to me.

Good presentations will teach the class without relying on copying the wording from the
reading. Good presentations will blend multiple teaching techniques. Good presentations will
go in a logical order.

How to make your presentation:
1. Discuss the key terms from the reading and make a list of what they are. You can
make the actual handout later.
2. Figure out the major purpose of your presentation. What is your thesis? What will each
section of your presentation ultimately lead up to? How do you want to divide your
presentation: thematically, chronologically, etc?
3. As a group, think/research about which terms have primary source potential. Which
terms have multimedia potential? Which have chart/diagram/graph potential? Which
would you teach with the whiteboard?
4. Once youve got that figured outstart assigning sections of your presentation to
individuals. These could be groups of 2, or 1 person. Make sure each member of your
group is comfortable with their assignment AND that each person is doing a fair
amount of work. Do not be a hero. Do not be a freeloader.
5. Work on your individual section, keeping in mind the time minimum and maximum that
your group has decided on
6. Save all your resources AND use a google doc to put YOUR sources in the document in
the correct alphabetical order, in Chicago Style. Label which sources are yours by
putting your initials at the very end of the citation. You must cite all sources:
including all multimedia.
7. Figure out who is going to share the handout with your classmates (electronically, not
printed) and who is going to share the Works Cited page with me.