The Scottsboro Trial

1. The climate of the 1930s in the Deep South The Scottsboro Trial

2. Research and accurately represent the conflicts/tone of the Deep South during the Great Depression… • Research the period by watching the PBS special on the Scottsboro trials (many scholars believe that Harper Lee based the second half of her novel off these events). • Create a “stand alone” PowerPoint presentation depicting your findings. By “stand alone”, I mean that your presentation should need no explanation, nor a physical presentation by you. Research Project – The Task

3. Choose a message for your slide show/PowerPoint. • Include in your presentation… • Sound/music that fits the message of your work. The music can change from slide to slide or continue throughout. • Five quotes from the video on the trial. Make sure that your quotes are from the beginning, middle, and end of the video. • Five quotes from To Kill a Mocking Bird • Pictures: Each quote should have a matching/representative picture. Your completed work will look like a slide show. If you choose, you may use any other format that we have in school that will produce the same results. The PowerPoint Presentation – Slide Show

4. You have two weeks from today, the date assigned. The project is worth a test grade. Due Date

5. PBS – The American Tragedy, The Scottsboro Trials through youtube or http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCBV-GhyINY A collection of photos from the 1930s. http://www.k-state.edu/english/nelp/childlit/1930s/or http://history1900s.about.com/od/photographs/tp/greatdepressionpictures.htmor http://www.history.com/topics/1930sor find your own. Necessary Resources

6. 10 points for completion 10 points for accuracy 10 points for theme 10 points for choices 10 points for format Scoring the Presentation…