Requirements
1. Historic Food Project
Each group choosing to do the Historic Food Project will prepare
a small booklet of recipes drawn from online historic cookbook
and cooking sites, published histories about cooking in America,
and/or from your own family recipe boxes. Each group will also
prepare a few food samples for the class to taste.
The recipe booklets should include a minimum of 8 recipes and
no more than 20. Booklets must have:
* A title page giving the title of the project and listing the
names of all participating group members.
* A statement (approximately 1,000 words) about the historic
context for the recipes.
* A bibliography of 5 references, including at least 1 print source.
Each group may choose to focus on food during a particular time
period or examine how a specific food or recipe has changed
over time. Or you could focus on the foods that a particular
immigrant group introduced to America or foods popular in a
particular region.
Click here for some suggestions on
food topics and how to do research for an Historic Food Group
Project.
During class on the scheduled due date, the Historic Food Groups
will briefly describe their projects to the class and offer
a few tasting samples. You do not need to provide samples of
every recipe. For the classroom presentation Groups may choose
to prepare an automated slide show using presentation software
such as PowerPoint, Keynote, or QuickTime, but this is not required.
Presentations should be approximately 15 minutes in length.
Be creative and have fun.
2. Historic Music Project
Each group choosing to do the Historic Music Project will assemble
a CD of historic music and place it in a jewel case with cover
art and liner notes.
The CD should include a minimum of 8 songs and no more than
20. The jewel case must have:
* A title page giving the title of the project and listing the
names of all participating group members.
*Liner notes with a statement (approximately 1,000 words)
about the historic context of the music and a list of all the
song titles, performer(s) and date(s) of performance.
*A bibliography of 5 references, including at least 1 print source.
Each group can choose to focus on a particular genre of music
and/or a particular time period up to 1974. Or the group could
focus on music relevant to a specific event, for example, music
of the Civil War.
Click here for some suggestions on
music topics and how to do research for an Historic Music Group
Project.
Click
here for a template to layout a jewel case CD booklet in Microsoft
Word.
During class on the scheduled due date, the Historic Music Group
will present their project to the class. Groups may choose to
have a single member serve as a “DJ” to play and
discuss the music. Or groups could prepare an automated slide
show using presentation software such as PowerPoint, Keynote,
or QuickTime.
Presentations should be approximately 15 minutes in length.
Be creative and have fun.
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Instructions
STEP ONE: In class on September 24 or 25, students
will choose whether they want to participate in a music or food
project. The instructor will divide the class into groups. Groups
will meet for a few minutes during class to exchange telephone
numbers and e-mail addresses.
STEP TWO: On Wednesday, October 15, students will meet individually with the instructor to discuss progress on their group projects. Following this meeting students will submit via e-mail Group Project Progress Report #1. Click here to download the Progress Report #1 Form.
STEP THREE: Groups will meet on their own time
to develop a plan for their projects and divide up the workload.
Groups may meet as often as they feel necessary to accomplish
the task.
STEP FOUR: By Monday, November 10, all students will submit Group Project Progress Report #2 to the instructor via e-mail. Click here to download the Progress Report #2 Form.
STEP FIVE: Groups will present their projects to the class and submit their booklets and cds to the instructor during the week of November 17-20.
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