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World Book
This online encyclopedia has general information about a variety of topics

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ABC-Clio: The American Mosaic: The African American Experience
The African American Experience: The American Mosaic provides a comprehensive survey of African American history and its heartbreaking struggles, major movements—political, social, artistic, and literary—and most notable events and legislative reform.

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ABC-Clio World History Ancient and Medieval Eras
World History: Ancient and Medieval Eras explores ancient civilizations, dynasties, and empires in the ancient and medieval world from prehistory through to the beginning of the Renaissance.

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Gale World History InContext
World History In Context reaches back to the ancient world — and forward to today's headlines — to deliver a chronicle of the great cultures and societies that have formed the history of the human race.

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GALE: US History in Context
U.S. History In Context is an engaging online experience for those seeking contextual information on hundreds of the most significant people, events and topics in U.S. History.

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GALE: US Smithsonian Collections Online
Smithsonian Primary Sources in U.S. History brings hand-curated material from the experts at the Smithsonian directly to classrooms and students.

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Infobase - Ancient and Medieval History
Biographies, primary sources, maps, graphs and articles on a wide range of topics in Ancient and Medieval history.

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Infobase: American History
Biographies, primary sources, maps, graphs and articles on a wide range of topics in American History.

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Readex: America's Historical Newspapers
America's Historical Newspapers makes it easy for students to search and browse hundreds of U.S. newspapers published from 1690 through the 20th Century, including titles from all 50 present states.

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Instructions

Your task: You and your partner(s) will create a “Horrible Histories” sketch about a person or event of one of our ancient civilizations that we have studied.

Process:

Choose a person or event from our ancient civilizations studies
Research that person or event
- At least 2 additional sources not including our history text
- Create a bibliography for the sources

Create a storyboard or plan for your sketch
Write your script
Film your project (Title & Bibliography included)

Timeline:

Tuesday, May 18-choose partner(s) and topic/ begin research
Tuesday, May 18-Thursday, May 27-Research & begin storyboard and script
Wednesday, June 2-complete storyboard & script
Wednesday, June 2 - Friday, June 4-Film and edit presentation
Monday, June 7 -present to class

Requirements & grading:

Notecards with facts about topic due Thursday, May 27 30%
Bibliography due Thursday, May 27 10%
Storyboard due Wednesday, June 2 20%
Script due Wednesday, June 2 20%
Group work 10%
Presentation due Monday, June 7 10%

Due Date: Monday, June 7

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2021 Horrible Histories Project
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