In this assignment you are going to become photojournalists. Go into your community with a camera and gather evidence to create a PowerPoint presentation of progress (or lack of progress, if you wish) made toward the achievement of civil rights of these and other groups in society. Think about changes in peoples' rights, including women, the elderly, the disabled, and ethnic and racial minorities. Look at businesses, place names, neighborhoods, public facilities, parks, monuments and other aspects of the built environment.
Be sure to include and fulfill the following objectives in your presentation.
• Your presentation makes a definitive statement about the progress (or lack of progress) that has been made in your community since the Civil Rights movements of the 1960s.
• The photos are your own original work. The quality of your photos will not be assessed.
• Each slide supports or refutes the thesis that progress has been made in the community since the Civil Rights era of the 1960s.
Grading Criteria
• Presentation illustrates and explains progress or lack of progress in a community since the movements of the 1960s.
• Photos are original, appropriate and illustrative of the community's change.
• Supporting notes describe the relevance of the photos
• Presentation meets the posted length requirements
• Presentation illustrates one example of progress or lack of progress in a community since the movements of the 1960's.
• Photos are original and of a community.
• Supporting notes list the photos.
• Presentation meets the posted length requirements.
• Presentation illustrates a community but does not identify progress or lack of progress since the movements of the 1960's.
• Photos are not original.
• Supporting notes do not contribute to the assignment goal.
• Presentation does not meet posted length requirements.
• Presentation is only partially on topic, lacks originality, and briefly comments on a community.
• Project makes one reference to key assignment questions.
• Presentation does not meet posted length requirements.
• Presentation is off topic and lacks originality.
• Presentation makes little or no reference to assignment parts.
• Presentation does not meet posted length requirements.
• Use of plagiarized photos=graded as zero.