Team Omega World War II Studies
Name _________________________________
“Pre-search” Stage
Due:
Topics Chosen
Due:
Extended Research Stage
Four Note Cards and Draft (preliminary) Bibliography
Due:
Essential Question Developed in Class
Due:
Samples:
Was the United States’ decision to use an atomic weapon against Japan necessary to an Allied
victory in the Pacific?
Was the U.S. bombing of the German city of Dresden necessary to the Allied victory in Europe?
How did various resistance groups achieve degrees of success against such odds?
Final Note Card Check – 7 to 9 note cards
Due:
Visual Project Class Work Time and Check-in
Due:
Bibliography – Minimum of four sources,
two of them printed sources
Completed Visual Project
Due:
Due:
Planning, Drafting, Revising Stage
Completed Working Draft
Due:
Cover Page (sample attached)
Due:
Polished Copy
Due:
Exhibit and Celebration of Work
TBA
Sample Cover Page
Hiroshima:
An End to World War II
and the Beginning of the Atomic Age
Presented by
Louella van Patterson
April 13, 2012
Name: _______________________________________________
Class: ___________
World War II Project Requirements:
Polished Research Paper
Four to Five Paragraphs
Bibliography
Four Sources Minimum, with Combination of
Print and Electronic Sources
Cover Page
See Attached Example
Visual Component
Clear Connection to Research and Paper
Visual Suggestions
Power Point Presentation
Maps
Portrait
Painting of a Battle
Three-Dimensional Model of Battle
Informational Poster
Some Topic Suggestions
Battles
Leaders
Events
Heroes and Heroines
Midway
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Invasion of Poland
Women Pilots (WASPS)
Dunkirk
Neville Chamberlain
Invasion of Manchuria
Tuskegee Airmen
Siege of Stalingrad
Winston Churchill
Manhattan Project
Glen Miller
Guadalcanal
Adolph Hitler
Japanese-Americans
442nd Army Regiment
D-Day Invasion
Joseph Stalin
Bataan Death March
Women in the Workplace
Island Hopping
Benito Mussolini
Liberation of
Concentration Camps Robert Oppenheimer
Battle of the Bulge
Charles de Gaulle
Pearl Harbor
Resistance Groups
Battle of Britain
Hideki Tojo
the Spitfire
Eleanor Roosevelt
Anzio
Gen. Rommel, the Desert Fox
Surrender on
Gen. Dwight Eisenhower
the U.S.S. Missouri
Navajo Code Talkers