AP World History
1900-present
Presentation Assignment
Present in Class: Tuesday or Wednesday November 11 or 12
30 points
Assignment: You will about three minutes to present on one global migration that occurred between 1750 and 1900.
To the best of your ability, answer the following questions about the group that is migrating:
· Where is your group’s home?
· Where were they migrating to?
· Why did they migrate (mention push factors and pull factors)?
· Was the migration free, coerced, or semi-coerced?
· Did they move permanently or was their migration seasonal?
· What was the gender breakdown of the migration? Did men and women migrate or mostly men? Mostly women?
· Did these migrants face discrimination in the areas where they migrated? If so, what did this discrimination look like? Was the discrimination on the individual level only or on the state/government level?
· How does this migration connect to the larger global historical context of this time period (Nation-State Formation, Imperialism, Industrialization)?
Sources: If available, use information from your textbook. You can only use library BOOKS or academic books found on Google Books to answer your questions. Along with your presentation notes, you must also submit a properly formatted bibliography that lists the sources that your group used. You can use internet sources, but they must be of high quality. NO WIKIPEDIA! J
· Japanese agricultural workers in the Pacific (Genie, Christina)
· Russians (Seung Jun, Hoyoung)
· Italians in Argentina (Christine and Louie, Janice)
· Chinese in Southeast Asia, the Caribbean, North America and South America (Kan and Elisa, Sally)
· Indians in East and Southeast Asia, the Caribbean and Southern Africa (Grace, Yoojin)
· Europeans (Cathy, Emily)
· Lebanese merchants in the Americas
· (Steve, Alex)
· USA (Eunchae, Siwon)
Student Name ______Migrating Group______
To save paper, hand in one copy of this rubric before you give your presentation.
Poor (2) / Fair (3) / Good (4) / Excellent (10)Information / Student includes little information for related to the assignment. Student may include incorrect information. / Student includes some of the information required for the assignment. / Student does an exceptional job of meeting assignment requirement, / Student exceeds assignment requirements.
Organization / Audience cannot understand presentation because there is no sequence to the information. / Audience has difficulty following presentation because information jumps around. / Students present information in logical sequence which audience can follow. / Students present information in logical, interesting sequence which audience can follow.
Sources / Overall, sources are of low quality. Student does not provide a bibliography of sources. Bibliography is provided but is largely incorrect or incomplete. / Student uses quality sources but may be too few to give comprehensive information to the audience. Student has trouble with proper bibliography style. / Student uses quality sources. Students has a proper bibliography with minor mistakes. / Student does a superior job of synthesizing quality sources and uses MLA documentation style accurately and flawlessly.
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