This year, students in American Literature 1900-Present & US History will participate in C-SPAN's student documentary contest, Student Cam. The goal of the project is to examine a challenge facing our world and use C-SPAN research and footage to present a potential solution or argument surrounding the topic. This year's focus question is:
“YOUR MESSAGE TO WASHINGTON”
What is the most urgent issue for the new president and Congress to address in 2017?
Students will work independently or in small groups to select a topic, research, conduct interviews, plan their scripts, and ultimately film their documentaries. Students will have the opportunity to share their message with the world as they enter C-SPAN's annual contest.
To access the student portal for the project, please click here.
“YOUR MESSAGE TO WASHINGTON”
What is the most urgent issue for the new president and Congress to address in 2017?
Students will work independently or in small groups to select a topic, research, conduct interviews, plan their scripts, and ultimately film their documentaries. Students will have the opportunity to share their message with the world as they enter C-SPAN's annual contest.
To access the student portal for the project, please click here.
American Voice & American Perspectives
As part of our introduction to culture and our cultural perspectives, students wrote original cultural stories (memoirs, children's stories, family trees, or documentaries) reflective of their own cultural eye. Students were reflective in their research about their own culture and incredibly creative in their presentations of their knowledge. Below is the project explanation and a few standout projects/exemplars. If you have questions about the project itself, please get in touch with us!
Created by Skylar Raitt
World War I Flip Book
As part of their exploration of World War I, its causes, and its implications, students will be working on an interdisciplinary flip book that asks them to research, analyze, and present on various sub-topics. Students will work on the research skills and citation requirements in their American Literature course and will complete the flip book for US History. Students are truly benefiting from the ability to transfer their skills across multiple disciplines! Stay tuned for some of our exemplary projects.
"Looking Back"
After reading Thornton Wilder's play Our Town, students are exploring their imagined futures. They are contemplating what they want to accomplish in life, the goals that they will pursue, and the way they will want others to think about them in the future. Students have written speeches, delivered in the third person, about their imagined future selves. Below is the project explanation, and exemplary projects will be featured here upon completion.