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Assessment

__Research Simulation Assessment 1 Introduction __

These assignments are given as an example of what types of assignments you should be teaching in class. You are to pretend that you are creating this assignment for students.

The 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified on August 18, 1920 and granted women the right to vote in the United States:

“The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex. Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.”

During this assessment, you will read three speeches that argue in support of women’s suffrage

Research Simulation Assessment 1 Task

Using Handouts 1, 2 & 3 you are to complete (Please use some form of technology to present each)


 * Analytic Summary of Handout 1 (Wiki)


 * Vocabulary in Handout 2 (Create a Graphic Organizer)


 * Central Ideas in Handout 2 (Create multimedia presentation)


 * Theme and Purpose in Handout 3 (Create multimedia presentation)
 * Analysis of Handout 1, 2, & 3 (Create multimedia presentation

You are to respond to these questions and post the answers in your Wiki’s. Each of you are to collaborate together on your answers and combine them. After you combine them you are to come together and create your own presentations of the answers to the questions.

1. __Analytic Summary of Handout 1, 2, & 3 (Present Using Technology embed in wiki) __

Please read President Woodrow Wilson’s “Address to the Senate on the Nineteenth Amendment.” Wilson gave this speech in 1918, two years before the women’s suffrage amendment was ratified.

After you read write a summary of this speech. This summary should reflect how you will introduce this speech to your students as a preview of a short reading assignment.

Examples: After reading and classroom discussions students should be able to answer these questions:

· <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">How can a person’s message be misconstrued?

· <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">How does audience affect the author’s purpose style and content?

· <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">How does tone, style and content change in each text?

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">2. __<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> Vocabulary (Present Using Technology embed in wiki) __

<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Create vocabulary from each handout that can be utilized in class. Create a graphic organizer using technology to show the vocabulary questions.

<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Example:

<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">From “The Crisis” a speech delivered by Carrie Chapman Catt to the National American Women’s Suffrage Association in 1916.

// In her speech, Catt states: “Our movement is like a great Niagara with a vast volume of water tumbling over its ledge but turning no wheel.”  //

<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Example: Which sentence comes closest to what Catt means by this simile?

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">a. <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Our movement has power that is being utilized.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">b. <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Our movement has power that is being wasted.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">c. <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Our movement has power that is being captured.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">d. <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Our movement has power that is being corrupted.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">e. <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Our movement has power that is being misdirected.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">3. <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> __Central Ideas (Present Using Technology embed in wiki)__

<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">There is a central idea in each handout. You are to complete the following as a group and post your responses to these in your wiki.

<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Part 1: Choose a speech and determine two central ideas that are developed by the details. Show how you would present these ideas to your students.

<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Part 2: Select three details in the speech that you chose that are evidence of the central ideas that you chose in Part 1.

<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Part 3: Write a discussion board on how you will address these central ideas to students, include how they interact and build on one another.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">4. <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> __Theme and Purpose (Present Using Technology embed in wiki)__

<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Develop questions relating to theme and purpose for each of the speeches.

<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Example: Determine the purpose of Anthony’s speech. Write the purpose as a sentence.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">5. <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> Analysis

<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">You have read all three of the speeches about the right of women to vote. These three texts provide you with arguments in support of women’s suffrage. Handouts 1, 2 & 3.

<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Create an assignment that your students can complete as a collaborative assignment. Students should use some form of technology.