Extras

Everything I Need to know about... “EXTRA’S” “Extra’s” must be included in your interactive history notebook to earn higher than an 88%! Your goal? Get into the 100 Club!!!

**So, what are “Extra’s”?** They are assignments that are “research based” and require thinking!!! (,,,An interesting concept...) Independently, you decide what you would like to research, produce, and include in your interactive history notebook. The teacher will determine points earned based on quality of product; not quantity. Therefore, one “Extra” could be worth as much as 12 points, depending on the academic effort! Remember: “Extras” take time to research, should reflect your effort, and should revolve around our current unit of study or a recent current event that has worldwide impact. All research must be in your own words and you must credit your source of information. Do not copy and paste and print from your computer. That would be plagiarism!

Extras can also be a fun family outing including going out to restaurants, museums, movies, Renaissance Fairs, etc. If you decide to do an assignment that cannot “fit” into your notebook, such as a video presentation, a painting, a dramatization, field trip, etc., you will still need to write a brief explanation of your project into your notebook as part of your “Extra.”

Each grading period the teacher will designate some pages in your interactive notebook specifically for “Extras”. You may also use any blank pages that were not used during the prior grading period. READ ALL OF THESE GREAT IDEAS & DETERMINE WHAT INTERESTS YOU. GET STARTED....YOU’RE ON YOUR OWN. HAVE FUN!

**“EXTRA” IDEAS & ACTIVITIES"** **Comic Strips** - Create a comic strip page that highlights a significant action in history we are studying.  Letters - Pretend you are a person that we are studying. Write a letter to an old friend. Explain an action you’ve taken that will affect history.  **Field Trips** - Visit a place of worship that we are studying and obtain information; reflect on your observations, etc. (Ex: the mosque on Balboa Avenue.) Visit a restaurant and gather menus for places that we are currently studying. (Ex: Middle Eastern Restaurant, Japanese restaurant, etc.) Obtain information, reflect on your observations, and research their foods. Visit a museum and find treasures from where we’re studying. (Ex: Museum of Art.) Research the art and reflect on your trip.  **Dialogs** - Write a dialog between two people in history we’re studying.  **Map time lines** - Prepare an illustrated map time line with appropriate caption. Highlight major events we’re studying. **Advice columns -** Compose a Dear Abby or Ann Landers column for a person in history we are studying. **Newspaper Headlines** - Write a series of newspaper headlines for the front page, sports page or society page that indicates the sequence and importance of events we’re studying. **Graphs** - Draw a graph representing information that we’re studying. **Scrapbooks** - Compile a scrapbook with pictures and items of importance to the culture & or individuals we’re studying. Obituaries - Compose an obituary article about a person we’re studying in history. Use an appropriate headline. Use accurate historical information. **Horoscopes**- Using all the known evidence, compose a horoscope analysis of a person in history that we’re studying. Lyrics - Write lyrics to a song about pertinent aspects of history that we’re studying. **Haikus** - Compose a haiku that includes a significant historical aspect that we’re studying. **Maps** - Draw an illustrated map, labeling important landmarks and physical features of the area of the world in which we’re studying. **Travel Brochures** - Design a travel brochure. Use descriptive words & sentences quoted for the textbook and characteristic pictures typical of the terrain. **Story Boards** - Make a story board for a film, sketching possible long shots of five successive scenes. Identify the time and place of the action in each scene. **Archeologist Logs** - Record information in an archaeologist’s log. Give full details where found or observed, color, shape, size, use, of cultural artifacts or customs. **Display Cards** - Prepare display cards such as those used to label objects exhibited in a museum for cultural artifacts or customs. **Full-Page Ads** - Compose a full page ad highlighting the beneficial features of a product that might have been used during the time in which we’re studying. **News Articles** - Write a news article about a technological development or scientific invention that played an important part in the history that we’re studying. **TV Talk Shows** - Prepare questions & answers to ask on a simulated TV talk show of an important person in history that we’re studying. Photo Essays - Create a photo essay about the time period we’re studying. (You could use National Geographies, etc.) Editorials - Write an editorial on a major issue that we are studying. (Political, etc.) **Collages** - Create a collage to form a visual statement. Use color, design, drawings, or photographs that reinforce a quotation from history that we are studying. (You could use your textbook or another source for the quotation.) **Crossword Puzzles** - Prepare a crossword puzzle using current vocabulary words, key terms. etc., that we are studying. (These are usually low point value because they don’t require a lot of resesarch or thinking!) **Job Applications** - Locate information about the qualifications of a person in history that we are studying. Design and complete an original job application form that includes information on his or her qualifications to deal with the job he/she would be doing at that time. **TV Commercials** - Write a script for a 30-second TV commercial that highlights key aspects of a particular time period that we are studying. **Bulletin Notices** - Write a bulletin notice for the school’s daily bulletin advertising an event that just occurred in history that corresponds with what we are currently studying. (It could be past or recent.) **News Items** - Write a response to a newspaper article. It must be more than a summary. Include information as to why it is important to the history we are studying and why is it important to you. **Poems-** Create a poem from our current topic of study. Try using as many of our vocabulary words as possible. Pasted from <[]>