Purple Cow PLC Rubric

1. Scholar Start: Reflect on your museum exhibit. What makes your exhibit interactive? What do you hope the museum visitors will get out of your interactive portion of your exhibit?

2. Museum Creation!

3. Things to remember:

• Conversation in your group should only consist of on topic conversation!
• You are working with YOUR group ONLY
• There is PLENTY to do, so don’t forget about what your museum exhibit will need, how will you make it interactive, and what will you include in the description that will tie your exhibit back to our Essential Question?
• STUDENT MODEL- DESCRIPTION

1. Scholar Start: Who is responsible for what in the creation of your museum exhibit?
2. Mood Meter: Awesome Reaction to College Acceptance Letters
3. Objectives and Agenda
4. Museum Construction!
5. Link to Rubric

1. Scholar Start:Think about the topics covered this week: Atom Bomb, Women’s evolving roles, and the GI Bill. What are the economic ties to each of these topics that resulted from WWII?
2. Mood Meter: Evolution of End Zone Dancing
3. Objectives and Agenda
4. Economic impact of Atom Bomb, women’s roles, and Gi Bill: Discuss
5. Make a copy of the Google doc below: using the resources from the last week, answer completely.
6. Is it All About the Benjamins? Or is it about more? ORQ

1. Scholar Start: How do we honor and reward those who sacrifice their lives for our country?
2. Mood Meter
3. Objectives and Agenda
4. How to GI Bill Changed the American Dream: Chart: GI BILL

Meal Paragraph:  How did the GI Bill impact America economically after WWII up until today?

GI Bill Article

History.com Video and Short Article

1. Scholar Start: What are are some of the roles that women play in today’s society? How do you think that has changed in the last 75 years?
2. Mood Meter
3. Objectives and Agenda
4. Photo Analysis Worksheets
1. Before the War Photos
2. During the War Photos 
3. After the War Photos and Article
4. Quick Write: Compare women’s roles after WWII to women’s roles today.  Have gender roles truly changed economically and socially in today’s society?

1. Scholar Start: We know that WWII ended with the Nazi party being stopped. What do you think the world would be like if Hitler and the Nazis were victorious? Why do you think this?
2. Mood Meter: Evolution of Mom Dancing
3. Objectives and Agenda
4. Video: Hitler and the Rise of Nazi War Machine (15 minutes)
5. Timeline: Chronology of War. Using this “See and Hear” interactive timeline resource, students will make their own timeline recording the events of World War II with a visual representation.
6. Pick one event from each year on the website and tell why you think it is the most significant of the year. Then have 5 visual representations on the timeline as well.

1. Scholar Start:What do you think is meant by the saying, Germans were the first victims of Hitler.
2. Mood Meter
3. Objectives and Agenda
4. Why Hitler?

Characteristics of Strong Leader: (5 minutes) Table

5.Blank Table: Those characteristics and evidence from the video.

6.Microlab/Written Response: In what ways did Hitler use his charisma to victimize German citizens for his benefit/beliefs.

1. Scholar Start:If you were in conditions such as the ones we saw in the film of Europe, do you think economic systems such as communism or socialism would sound appealing to you? Why or Why not?
2. Mood Meter:Look Up
3. Objectives and Agenda
4. Finish rise of Communism/Socialism
• Crash Course: Capitalism and Communisim
• Video-Russian Revolution
5. Germany’s Rise to Power