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Historian
Portfolio Assignments
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Complete
at least five of these assignments for your portfolio
or follow the directions of your teacher. Print templates and
graphic organizers associated with assignments you select and
complete them in hard copy format. Higher-numbered assignments
reflect higher-level thinking skills.
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1.
Identify three artifacts used to keep slaves under control and
tell how each was used. (knowledge level/verbal-linguistic
intelligence)
2. Summarize what you learned about the slave trade by explaining
the 5Ws and H (who, what, where, when, why, how) in the template
provided. (comprehension level/verbal-linguistic intelligence)
3. Choose a combination of five or more images and/or statistics
you have reviewed that most effectively illustrate the horrors
of slavery to you. Create a collage with them and explain why
you chose each. (application level/visual-spatial intelligence)
4. A graphic organizer is a visual representation of concepts
or information that can use both text and pictures. Create a
graphic organizer of your own design to show the variety of
ways that enslaved Africans resisted their treatment and slavery.
(application level/visual-spatial intelligence)
6. Compare and contrast these three aspects of slavery using
the template provided:
1) being
captured and removed from Africa; 2) enduring the Middle Passage;
and 3) facing a life of servitude on a plantation. Then
decide which aspect you think was the worst and tell why in
a paragraph. (analysis level/verbal-linguistic intelligence)
7. Explain how Africans slowly became African Americans. How
and why did this happen? Show this process by writing an essay,
making a scrapbook with visual images and captions, or designing
a graphic organizer. (synthesis level/visual-spatial or verbal-linguistic
intelligences)
8. Express yourself by composing a haiku and cinquain about
the effects of some aspect of the slave trade or slavery. Examples
and form are provided.
(synthesis level/intrapersonal intelligence)
9. Beginning with the most important, prioritize five to seven
key pieces of historical information you reviewed that you think
are crucial to understanding America's and South Carolina's
role in the slave trade and system of slavery. Use the template
provided to help you. (synthesis level/verbal-linguistic
intelligence)
10. Using the template
provided, formulate a list of five to eight points that effectively
make the case against the resort development. (synthesis
level/verbal-linguistic intelligence)
11. Evaluate the U.S. government's contradictory actions in
regards to Sherman's Field Order No. 15 and Sea Island lands.
Prepare a list of "talking points" showing how and
why this incident strengthens your opposition to the current
resort development project. (evaluation level/verbal-linguistic
intelligence)
12. In a brief written essay with five paragraphs, present a
persuasive argument about what, if anything, you think South
Carolina owes African Americans to compensate for centuries
of slavery. Use the template
provided to organize your thoughts. (evaluation level/verbal-linguistic
intelligence)
13. "There likely would be no South Carolina history were
it not for the labors of the African Americans brought to these
shores in slave ships." Evaluate this statement, considering
the historical evidence you have reviewed. Prepare a persuasive
argument in which you offer support for this statement. Use
the template provided
(evaluation level/verbal-linguistic intelligence)
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