[Your Name]
[Your Teacher’s Name]
[Your School]
[Your Grade]
[SAVE YOUR PROJECT AS BLACK HISTORY PROJECT
IN YOUR DOCUMENTS FOLDER]
Black History Month
Presentation
Introduction
• State the significance of Black History Month and
why it is important.
• This section can be one to two slides and can include
pictures and/or videos.
• If including a picture or video, you need to cite it right
below (You could insert a text box to do so).
• It should say:
• Courtesy of: [insert the web address here]
Overview
• Give a brief overview of what you’ll cover in your
presentation
• You may want to leave this slide blank until the end.You
don’t really know what you will cover yet.
History
• Make a timeline of the important historical events in Black history.
• Go to Insert- Table to make a table like the one below.
Name of Event 1
Name of Event 2
Name of Event 3
Name of Event 4
Name of Event 5
Name of Event 6
1st Date
2nd Date
3rd Date
4th Date
5th Date
6th Date
Description of
Event
Description of
Event
Description of
Event
Description of
Event
Description of
Event
Description of
Event
Interesting Facts
• List 5 interesting facts about Black History Month in
a bulleted list.
Black History Leader
• Choose an important person in black history and discuss the
person’s life and accomplishments.
• What are they known for? How did/do they contribute to
others to make them worthy of recognition? Do they
contribute to humanitarian efforts or charities?
• Use the next two to three slides to outline why they are
important. Do NOT just cut and paste from the Internet! That
is plagiarism!
• Include a picture of the person.
• http://www.biography.com/blackhistory/people/legal.jsp
• Here are some ideas: Barack Obama, Jackie Robinson, Benjamin
Banneker, Sojourner Truth, Frederick A. Douglas, Harriet Tubman,
Paul Laurence Dunbar, Granville T. Woods, Ida B Wells-Barnett,
George Washington Carver, Matthew A. Henson, W.E.B. DuBois,
James Weldon Johnson, Mary McLeod Bethune, Carter G.
Woodson, A. Philip Randolph, Louis Armstrong, Marian Anderson,
Ralph Johnson Bunche, Jesse Owens, Martin Luther King, Jr.
• Add more information about your person here.
• You can include a video of the person, if one is
available.
• Save the movie to your documents and then click
Insert- Movies and Sounds, find your file, and then
click to add it into your presentation.
Arts and Literature
• Provide one example of
art and one of literature
that are significant to
Black History Month.
• Include a picture of
each and label it.
How We Celebrate
• List five ways we celebrate Black History Month
around the nation.
• Include a picture of a celebration.
Conclusion
• Provide a brief summary of your presentation.
Resources
• List ALL the online resources in alphabetical order
that you used for your research in correct MLA
format. See example below:
• Go this this website for more ways to cite:
http://www.virtualsalt.com/mla.htm
References
Author’s Last Name, Author’s First Name. Title of Web Page. [Online] Available at:
URL of specific site, date of document or download.
Lane, Sarah. The Nuts And Bolts of College Writing. [Online] Available at:
http://www.classbrain.com/artteensb/publish/article_94.shtml, 9 May, 2003.