Final Product

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You will design a team scrapbook entitled –

THE DEPRESSION YEARS: USA IN THE 1930s.

This document will serve to demonstrate a period in American history depicting the frustrations and hopes of those who “lived “the GREAT DEPRESSION.

This scrapbook format will present a unique assembly of photographs, copies of original documentation, graphs, charts, maps, letters, comments and explanations etc. which will compel the reader to observe, to participate, to locate himself/herself in the Depression. Each page will reveal the lives of individuals and will lay their feelings, passions, agonies and judgments before the reader. The interplay of photographic and print documents will draw the reader into the decade.

Students should give to the Language Arts teacher a written report for each of the investigation topics following the MLA format. Each student will be responsible for producing 4 single pages (2 double pages) of the team scrapbook.

Scrapbook

This publication will be made in MS Publisher and it must follow these steps:

Use the Newsletter format to create the scrapbook.

Delete date and volume information.

Add 18 (14 for the teams of 4) more pages on your file between pages 3 and 4.

Cover page (page 1) should include:

Name of the Scrapbook

Table of content

Image(s)

Role pages (pages 2-17 or 2-21):

four single pages designed per student

include your Bibliography

Designers page (page 18 or 21):

include your face picture

talk about yourselves as contributors

You can see examples of part of the Guide here:

MLA format for Reports

Paper:

Use white letter sized paper (81/2 by 11 inch).

Margins:

One-inch margins all around the text of your paper -- left side, right side, and top and bottom.

Paragraphs should be indented half an inch.

Spacing:

All the work must be double-spaced

Heading and Title:

Your research paper does not need a title page.

At the top of the first page, at the left-hand margin, type your name, your teacher's name (Mr. Dennis Spencer), the subject name (Language Arts), and the date -- all on separate, double-spaced lines.

Then double-space again and center the title above your text.

Double-space again before beginning your text.

The title should be neither underlined nor written in all capital letters.

Capitalize only the first, last, and principal words of the title.

Titles might end with a question mark or an exclamation mark if that is appropriate, but not in a period.

Page Numbers:

Number your pages consecutively (including the first page) in the upper right-hand corner of each page, one-half inch from the top.

Type your last name before the page number.

Use Header and Footer for this.

Make sure the page-number is always an inch from the right-hand edge of the paper (flush with the right-hand margin of your text) and that there is a double-space between the page number and the top line of text.

Do not use the abbreviation p. or any other mark before the page number.

Example:

"MLA Format." Graphic. Capital Community College. 15 Oct. 2003. <http://webster.commnet.edu/mla/format.shtml>

The pictures used in this WebQuest come from: Nelson, Cary. "A Photo Essay on the Great Depression." Modern American Poetry. n.d. http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/depression/photoessay.htm (14 Feb. 2004).