Name______Period______

Tuning Up the Nation

Our nation is a place that is constantly changing, enhancing and developing new concepts and ways of doing things. As a nation the USA has always been a forerunner in reforming our society and nation as a whole to help and better the greater good of all.

What is a REFORM:

What is a Social Reform:

In the 1840’s the USAtook major steps forward to REFORM our country and help our society progress. The following institutions/policies were developed to modify/change the USA then and in the future:

1-Mental Hospitals

2-Prisons/Jails

3-Temperance Movement

4-Education

TASK 1: Students will be broken up into FOUR pre-determined groups. Each group

will have to create an iMovie about their assigned topic. Within the iMovie

thefollowing information must be presented:

-Explain what your assigned topic is….

-Who were the people creating pushing for your reform movement and why….

-What life was like BEFORE the reform was instituted…

-How did the reform CHANGE the USA and overall society in the 1840’s

-Why is our society better/worse now because of the reform movement….

This information must be presented with pictures, documents and other issue specific items with group voice-overs explaining all aspects of the topic.

TASK 2: Each group will have to bring to life a BEFORE AND AFTER clip of what life

was like in the USA before and after your topic was introduced to our society.

All members of the group have to participate in the iMovie clip.

TASK 3: ACTIVE AUDIENCE

As each group is showing their iMovie all other members of the class will have

to listen while taking notes on the information being presented to them. A

guided tool that must be filled in will be provided. If a class member has

a question on the reform a Q & A will take place after the presentation.

FINAL THOUGHT – DUE THE DAY AFTER PRESENTATIONS

On a Google Document that will be placed in your assignment folder labeled REFORM…..respond to the following idea:

“What is a reform and what is a modern institution or policy in the USA that is in need of an updated reform movement”

Explain and justify your opinion in TWO paragraphs please.

GROUP MEMBERS:

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Reform Project Rubric

10 / 8 / 6 / 4 / 2-0
Attentiveness of You as a Listener During Other Presentations / Tool completely filled in and attentive during presentation / Filled in all of the tool lacking some attentiveness during the presentation / Only filled in some of the tool during presentation / Did not pay attention during other presentations / Noisy and interrupted during other presentations

Information

And Your
Role
X 2 /  information accurate and specific
 fully covered spectrum of your topic
 preparation was obvious and apparent /  information accurate and specific
 fully covered spectrum of your topic
 some planning and organization
apparent /  information accurate and specific
 aspects of topic missing
 some planning and organization
apparent /  some information inaccurate
 aspects of topic missing
 some planning and organization
apparent /  information inaccurate
 topic not fully explained
 lacking planning and organization

iMovie

/  whole group participated
 iMovie explicitly related to your topic
 iMovie flowed well and was well planned out /  whole group participated
 iMovie connects to your topic
 iMovie flowed well and was well planned out /  whole group participated
 iMovie loosely connects to your topic
 iMovie does not flow well
 planning apparent /  all group members did not play a part
 iMovie loosely connects to your topic
 lacks focus and planning /  all group members did not play a part
 iMovie does not connect to
the topic
 lacks focus and planning

Name______TOTAL______/40

Work Cited_____/ 5