Encourage tinkering with ideas, relationships, connections. Set up situations where students have to find information not readily available in school texts. Provide opportunity for students to design open-ended explorations of the concept. Provide multiple options so students can plan a unique "proof" of learning.

Student talk show. Select culminating group or individual projects.

Objective:
-To improve students’ creative writing skills.
-To enhance students’ technology skills.
-To improve students’ organization skills.
-To allow students an opportunity to develop their creative abilities through a wide range of activities which demonstrate mastery of the subject.

Activity: Based on their studies, their historical imaginations and the benefit of historical persepctive, students will assume the identity of key figures and ordinary citizens of the era. Using a talk show format, students will be given an opportunity to “meet” people associated with the Civil Rights Movement.

Following the “talk show”, students may select one of the following as a culminating project:
1. Write, illustrate and edit an oral history booklet on the Civil Rights Movement.
2. Produce a video documentary of the Civil Rights Movement.
3. Produce a fictional video based on the Civil Rights Movement.
4. Write a short story, play or collection of poetry which relfects the era;
5. Develop a Power Point presentation to summarize key events of the Civil Rights Movement.
6. Create editorial cartoons that depict the political and social climate of the people.
7. Create and maintain a web page for the purpose of collecting and archiving stories about the Civil Rights Movement.

Assessment: Students will select a project from the above list or propose a comparable activity of special interest to them. The teacher will use an assignment calendar to monitor student progress.
The teacher and students will design rubrics for each project.