Glogster Time Period Assignment

1. Go to Glogster and log in.

2. Here are the instructions for using Glogster, and you can find a video tutorial here (thanks to Norwegian teacher Ann S. Michaelsen).

3. Instructions for Project:

• Describe and illustrate your time period. Make at least two (you may make more) informative, attractive, creative GLOGs. As told you in class, you and your partner may each do a separate but coordinated glog or you may work together on both glogs. (The three-person team will make at least three glogs.)


• Your glog will be viewed by other class members. They will learn about your time period from your glog, so make it interesting and educationally beneficial.


• Write your descriptions in your own words. You will gather information from other sources (textbook, HOTO, websites, etc.), but be sure to translate what you find into your own words.


• Show both what was going on in the United States as a whole and in Texas specifically during your time period. To what extent did Texas accurately reflect what was going on in the USA and to what extent was Texas unique during your time period?


• Have an effective balance of words and pictures.


• You may use songs and videos if you can find them in appropriate formats. (mp3s, embeddable videos, etc.)


• Add url links so students can find other websites on your time period.


• Be creative, clever, etc., but be sure and do it in an intellectual, informative way.

Timeline Annotations Due`

For Wed., 4/29: Annotated Timeline on your chosen time period.

Be sure you have done the following by the time you arrive in class on Wednesday.

1. Color in the time periods on the 11x17 timeline page.
2. Add information on Reconstruction from the Overview packet to the timeline.
3. Add information on your chosen time period from the Overview packet to the timeline.

4. Add information on your chosen time period from our textbook to the timeline. You will show what happened in TEXAS during your time period. Be sure to make a color-code key highlighting the info on Texas. (e.g., orange)

Timeline Test or Quiz on Friday

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For Friday, 4/24: Timeline Test or Quiz, 1861-Present

1. Learn the names, dates, and picture I.D.'s found on the timeline, as per instructions given you in class. You can grab a blank practice timeline here.

2. Remember, this will count as either two daily grades or a major test grade, whichever better helps your six weeks average.

3. Remember, too, that for extra credit you may add any of the explanatory information given you when we analyzed the timeline in class.

4. Good luck, timeliners!!

White Violence In Reconstruction Texas

The Freedmen's Bureau tried to protect blacks from violent whites.

For Wed, 4/15: Finish reading the article, "White Violence in Reconstruction Texas."

1. Come prepared to discuss and/or be quizzed over the article.

2. Write "Q" beside anything that was difficult to understand and/or you found interesting and would like to discuss.

3. Put check marks beside anything that ties into what we have learned so far about Reconstruction.

Quiz--Ch. 16 Summary: Reconstruction in Texas

For Thur, 4/9--Quiz over Ch. 16 Summary:

1. Know all the information and illustrations on the Chapter 16 Summary. You can get a copy at the website for Texas and Texans. (See left sidebar.)

2. Be able to identify the 5 military districts set up under Radical Reconstruction and the states within each district.

Quiz: A Brief Summary of Reconstruction

For Tue, 4/7: Quiz over A Brief Summary of Reconstruction