HIS 100 Multimedia Presentation Planning Worksheet PDF

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HIS 100 Multimedia Presentation Planning Worksheet Part 1: Brainstorming Instructions: Brainstorm your thoughts on each question in preparation for creating an outline of your multimedia presentation, including specific examples as appropriate. State three historical lenses that could be applied to your topic and explain how each lens can be applied.

Describe how one of the lenses you just identified might change how you approach researching your topic, thus affecting the historical narrative.

Discuss the conclusions you can draw from thinking about how history is told. Consider how historians are persuaded by their own biases, motivations, and influences of their time.

Describe how your research of a historical topic can help you understand contemporary issues in our lives, and try to list at least two related contemporary issues

Political Lens: It can be used to discover how the legislatures attempted to write laws that would assist them or their state

I will be using the political lens for my multimedia presentation because it shows why the make up of the new government and why it was needed

History is told through different lenses by different historians. These historians often focus on one aspect of the event. History can be gathered through primary sources and through secondary sources. The primary sources are from people who were at the historical event and secondary sources are the retelling of the events through different lenses. I do believe that some historians can be persuaded through their own biases, but it is

The research of historical topics gives us insight into the issues that affect today’s society. One contemporary issue that can be understood by looking at history is the election of the U.S. president by popular vote vs electoral college and why and how the electoral college was established. More populated states could nullify the votes of the smaller states. Another contemporary issue is during the drafting of the Constitution, the

Economic Lens: It will show the confederation had no power to tax citizens and therefore relied on the states therefore relied on the states to pay their debts Social Lens: It focuses the treatment of slaves as people during the drafting of the U.S. Constitution

After taking this course, what is your opinion about the statement “history repeats itself”? Do you think this is accurate? What information from the course guides you to this conclusion? I don not agree with the phrase “history repeats itself.” Many factors influence our thinking about history. For example, religious beliefs, education, technology, our upbringing all influencer our thoughts.

Discuss your obligation as a citizen of your society to understand the history behind issues that impact you every day. (Note that this does not specifically have to relate to your topic). It is my obligation as a citizen to understand where we came from in order not to make the same mistakes our ancestors did. We need to leave the world a better place that we found it and we can do that by raising our children to have empathy towards others and to stand up for other [people rights.

State three historical lenses that could be applied to your topic and explain how each lens can be applied.

Describe how one of the lenses you just identified might change how you approach researching your topic, thus affecting the historical narrative.

Discuss the conclusions you can draw from thinking about how history is told. Consider how historians are persuaded by their own biases, motivations, and influences of their time.

Describe how your research of a historical topic can help you understand contemporary issues in our lives, and try to list at least two related contemporary issues

important to be impartial when writing about history.

drafters compromised making slaves count as only 3/5ths of a person and to this day, even though slavery has ended more than 150 years ago, segregation only ended 57 years ago, but racism is still going on.

After taking this course, what is your opinion about the statement “history repeats itself”? Do you think this is accurate? What information from the course guides you to this conclusion?

Discuss your obligation as a citizen of your society to understand the history behind issues that impact you every day. (Note that this does not specifically have to relate to your topic).

Part 2: Outline Instructions: Create a plan for your presentation. You will need to create 10 to 12 slides that respond to the critical elements in the Project 3 Rubric. (If you are using Microsoft Word, your multimedia presentation should be 4 to 5 pages long.) The slide title suggestions are provided to help you develop your presentation. The field for slide text is a place for you to develop your ideas for your presentation’s content, drawing from Part 1. The field for slide visuals and audio ideas is a place to develop ideas for visuals and audio elements that can enhance your presentation and engage your audience. As you develop your ideas, you are encouraged to provide details as to how you will use these elements to engage your audience.

Slide Title Historical Lenses and History’s Value

My Topic

Slide Text Historians approach the historical events they are researching from different lenses or perspectives. Each lens provides a different view of each historical event. Without these historical lenses, many studies would contain biases and opinions. Drafting the U.S. Constitution

Three Historical Lenses

Political Social Economical

Lens 1

Political: Articles of the Confederation are weak

Slide Visuals and Audio Ideas...