Does everyone understand what they should be doing?

IF NOT - ASK FOR HELP!!!

1. Print out and read over Evaluation Scoring Guide as group to make sure that you all understand exactly what must be turned in as your final product.
2. Also as a group, look at this sample picture book on what American culture was like in the early 1900s (which is the same time period in which the novel Things Fall Apart is set).
3. As a group, read over the rest of these instructions carefully and make sure you understand all of the steps before starting.
4. As a group, review the topic table of the cultural topics you may wish to discuss in your storybook. Divide up who will be researching which topics . Not all topics must be covered – but religion, government, and masks are required. The other topics you can choose from include music, economics, weddings, celebrations, hospitality, clothing, art, and language. (How many topics should your group cover? Minimum: At least one per person.)
5. For each topic that you personally are responsible for researching, you must complete four steps:

• A. Respond in writing (on lined paper or in MS Word) to the Personal Knowledge prompt BEFORE you start researching about the topic. This should take 2-5 minutes.
• B. Read/skim/browse through the links provided. Take notes on the topic (your choice whether it's on lined paper or in MS Word). Be sure that you keep track of the citation information for the website you used for the notes TIP: Copy and paste is NOT note-taking; it's cheating.
• C. Using your personal knowledge (from part A) and your notes (from part B), write up 1-2 pages for your storybook. (NOTE: a “page” in a storybook is only a paragraph or less because you need to have room for the picture).
• E. Combine your paragraph(s) and a picture in PowerPoint to make a finished page

6. As a groups, combine your finished pages. Two ways to do this:

• A. You could take turns logging in to one machine and saving each of your Powerpoints to the desktop (and the last person would smoosh all the different pages together on their H: drive).
• B. Using Gaggle, email your finished page to your group organizer who will organize all the pages in the final PowerPoint.

7. When your book is completed, as a group you should review the pages and compare them to the Evaluation Scoring Guide to make sure you didn't miss anything. Fill out one copy of the Scoring Guide with your names and the file location (whose username is it saved under?) and give it to the teacher.

8. Individually, print out your personal pages and attach a copy of the Evaluation Scoring Guide to the top of them. Then complete the Self-evaluation Worksheet individually. Attach your Personal Knowledge responses and your notes to the Worksheet. Turn them all in!

TIPS :

•  SAVE YOUR WORK FREQUENTLY!

•  Be aware that sometimes Igbo is also spelled Ibo.

•  Be aware that we are primarily researching historical Igbo culture, and that it has changed over time. If you find something modern that seems rooted in historical culture, feel free to use it, but we're not looking for modern-only information -- like what rock bands play in Nigeria.

•  To copy pictures into PowerPoint, right click on the picture, and press CTRL-C and then go to PowerPoint and press CTRL-V. But remember to record the source you got the picture from!

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