Unit 8 Learning Modules
(in lieu of I.Journal)
Rationale
Christmas break is very nearly here, and you are looking forward to an entire week away from school to enjoy
your family and friends. In the interest of helping you to be as prepared as possible for the AP US exam, your devoted
teacher is striving to get as far as possible in your textbook, but alas! Only 3 weeks remain in the semester (much of
which will be taken up by incredibly awesome, fun final projects!). To lighten your class’ collective burden, you will
tackle Unit 8 in chunks instead having to read over 130 pages each! You will carefully master one chapter of this unit
and create a stand-alone ‘teaching module’ that your peers can use to learn key points from your chapter.
Writer’s Purpose & Role
Your purpose is to inform your fellow student of the most concentrated, most important key “stuff” from your
chapter. You are the expert on your chapter, so you are responsible for picking out key people, groups, places, events,
court cases, and attitudes and presenting them in a PowerPoint presentation*
Audience
Your audience is the rest of your team. They are just as busy as you are, but they also know how vital your
information is to mastering this unit. Help them study and learn quickly by giving them essential questions to guide their
learning, being concise, bold-facing or underlining key vocabulary, using relevant images to help with comprehension
and by stressing major points.
Form
Create a stand-alone Power Point presentation that is between 25 and 50 slides (going over slightly is ok, but not
excessively so). This will be your ‘teaching module’ that your peers will be able to access after you digitally turn it in to
your teacher on January 2 via Google Docs (preferred), flash drive or e-mail.
Your presentation needs to have 3 Essential Questions that will be answered by reading your Chapter (and,
therefore, by watching your presentation) as well as a list of 15 vocab terms. The slides following will detail your
assigned chapter (embrace technology as much as you would like to- include relevant video clips, links to websites or
other things that might be useful). Finally, create a review for your peers to use to see what they learned. This can take
place in the form of a series of question-answer slides, matching, fill in the blank, short answer prompts or anything else
you might find useful.
FCA #1: 3 Essential questions and 15 vocabulary terms that reflect the information peers will learn in this chapter (24
points)
FCA #2: 25-50 slides are used to effectively teach key points as presented in assigned chapter (25 points)
FCA #3: A review quizzes your peer’s knowledge of what they just learned (10 points)
Procedure
1. Read your chapter, taking careful notes. One cannot teach without understanding.
2. Formulate 3 Essential Questions that will guide your presentation
3. Formulate a list of 15 vocabulary terms crucial to understanding your chapter.
4. Create, selecting and presenting what you learn so that it is easily digested by your peers. Highlight key vocab,
use images, videos and links to supplement. If you get stuck on what’s important, use AP study sites for
inspiration (be VERY careful to avoid plagiarizing!)
5. Create a review in the latter slides of your presentation so that your peers can study what they have just
learned.
*Please create your presentation in Microsoft’s Powerpoint or in Google Docs. Please do not use any other software,
since no one else will be able to access your work. If a computer is not accessible, please see me for an alternative form
of this assignment.
Groups:
Block 1
Team 1
Team 2
American Life in
the Roaring 20s
(31)
The Politics of
Boom and Bust
(32)
Sarah
Court
Alysha
Morgan
American Life in
the Roaring 20s
(31)
The Politics of
Boom and Bust
(32)
Lacey
Leah, Olivia
Jalisa
Steph
Andrew E.
Ashley
Sam
Christy
The Great
Depression and
the New Deal
(33)
Shannon
Holly
FDR and the
Shadow of War
(34)
America in WWII
(35)
Aaren
Sean
Alex
Zac
The Great
Depression and
the New Deal
(33)
Gabe
Andy
Sirena
Skyler
FDR and the
Shadow of War
(34)
America in WWII
(35)
Mary
Allie
Bryan
Meghan, Carly
Alex
Seth
Ben
Miki
Block 4
Team 1
Team 2
Team 3
Team 4