A Presentation of Latin American Cultures

Project due on Monday, November 7th.

Create a slideshow, postcard (on a poster board), or a monologue to complete this project. In this project you will become a character in either the Aztec, Inca, or Maya indigenous group living in Latin America before the Europeans colonized the region.

Follow the guidelines on the back to complete the project. Please make sure you include everything listed below in your project.

NAME: ______

PROJECT CHOICE: ______

****NOTE - Tutorials will be offered everyday this week until 3:15 for students to stay and work on their projects if needed.

CATEGORY / 4 / 3 / 2 / 1
Content Understanding / TSW includes all of the following: describe what they are seeing, hearing, saying, feeling, and doing about the chosen culture, as well as the positive and negative effects of cultural diffusion, and how past conflicts within the chosen culture affects life today. / TSW includes most of the following: describe what they are seeing, hearing, saying, feeling, and doing about the chosen culture, as well as the positive and negative effects of cultural diffusion, and how past conflicts within the chosen culture affects life today. / TSW includes some of the following: describe what they are seeing, hearing, saying, feeling, and doing about the chosen culture, as well as the positive and negative effects of cultural diffusion, and how past conflicts within the chosen culture affects life today. / TSW include few if any of the following: describe what they are seeing, hearing, saying, feeling, and doing about the chosen culture, as well as the positive and negative effects of cultural diffusion, and how past conflicts within the chosen culture affects life today.
Social Studies Processess / TSW analyze historical or geographic information by all of the following identifying cause-effect relationships, finding main-ideas/details, and summarizing indicated by the inclusion of complex textual examples and/or insightful historical references. / TSW analyze historical or geographic information by most of the following identifying cause-effect relationships, finding main-ideas/details, and summarizing indicated by the inclusion of complex textual examples and/or insightful historical references. / TSW analyze historical or geographic information by some of the following identifying cause-effect relationships, finding main-ideas/details, and summarizing indicated by the inclusion of complex textual examples and/or insightful historical references. / TSW analyze historical or geographic information including few if any of the following identifying cause-effect relationships, finding main-ideas/details, and summarizing indicated by the inclusion of complex textual examples and/or insightful historical references.
Project Delivery / TSW deliver a project that is highly organized,well thought out, neat [poster and slideshow], rehearsed [slideshow and monologue]. Student is able to answer questions from the audience. / TSW deliver a project that is organized, thought out, neat [poster and slideshow], rehearsed [slideshow and monologue]. Student is able to answer some questions from the audience. / TSW deliver a project that is somewhat organized, thought out, reasonably neat [poster and slideshow], somewhat rehearsed [slideshow and monologue]. Student is able to answer few questions from the audience. / TSW deliver a project that shows little organization or is not thought out, neat [poster and slideshow], and/or rehearsed [slideshow and monologue]. Student is able to answer few if any questions from the audience.