Introduction

Welcome to your last unit in this course! You only have five lessons and a collaborative project to do in order to complete the course and prepare for your final exam. Congratulations! More about Lesson 11.01 in a moment . . .

 

What is a collaborative project? It is one that you do with one or more other persons working together to reach a specific goal. During the time you have been in this course, you have interacted with one another in your discussions on various topics. Think about who you would like to work with and check with him or her via your ACCESS email. By the end of this lesson, you will have selected a partner to work with and submitted that name to your teacher on the form provided at the end of this lesson.

You will also want to know what you are expected to do for this project. Here are the requirements:

  • A PowerPoint Presentation
    • Part 1 The first portion will contain the research you have done on your topic in a minimum of 10 slides
    • Part 2 The final page will list your three (or more) sources in MLA format
  • A completed form listing your contribution to the assignment
  • Three Internet sources
  • A post by each partner listing the title of the project in the subject line and a brief summary of the findings on the specific project. One of you should attach your project to the Discussion.

While you are selecting a partner with whom to work, start thinking about the topics available to you for your project. In the next lesson, you will need to select the topic and submit it to your teacher.

 

Here is the list of topics below:

TOPICS FOR COLLABORATIVE PROJECT

    • Rising Anti-Semitism or Other Equality Issues in the Russian States
    • Using Science and Technology to Maintain Peace (for example, drone technology, cell phone monitoring, cyber security)
    • The Use of Terrorism to Achieve Goals — Choose one of the following:
      • Taliban
      • Al-Qaida
      • Boko Haram
    • Space Exploration in the 21st Century:  What Is Its Status?
    • China and Its Economic Growth: Is It the New Super Power? Choose one from the following list:
      • Environmental Problems Resulting from China's New Economic Growth
      • Industrialism in the New China
      • Military Growth in 21st Century China
    • South Africa since Mandela
    • The Future of the State of Israel
    • Germany's Role in 21st Century Europe
    • The Future of the European Union

 

 

Lesson Objectives

Following successful completion of this lesson, students will be able to:

  • Describe the role of nationalism, militarism, and civil war in today's world, including the use of terrorism and modern weapons at the close of the twentieth and the beginning of the twenty-first centuries.
  • Describing the collapse of the Soviet Empire and Russia's struggle for democracy, free markets, and economic recovery and the roles of Mikhail Gorbachev, Ronald Reagan, and Boris Yeltsin
    Examples: economic failures, demands for national and human rights, resistance from Eastern Europe, reunification of Germany
  • Depicting geographic locations of major world events from 1945 to the present

The above objectives correspond with the Alabama Course of Study: World History: 1500 to the Present Objective(s): 16, 16B1, 16B3.

This lesson incorporates the following Literacy Standard(s):

 

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