Group work - presentation - A historical event

Instructions:

1. Make 7 groups of 4 students.


2. Choose one of these topics:


• 147 BC – Viriathus' biography


• 536 – Late Antique Little Ice Age


• 1066 – Battle of Hastings


• 1315-1317 – Great Famine


• 1347-48 – Black Death plague


• 1589 – The English Armada (Counter Armada)


• 1741 – Battle of Cartagena de Indias (Sitio de Cartagena de Indias)


• 1803-1814 – Royal Philanthropic Vaccine Expedition (Real Expedición Filantrópica de la Vacuna contra la Viruela)


• 1845 – Irish famine


• 1885 – Leopold of Belgium's Congo Free State


• 1898 – The sinking of USS Maine


• 1918 – Spanish flu


• 1938 - War of the Worlds broadcast (the true story)


• 1955 – Rosa Parks' biography


3. Send your teacher a message with a description of your work plan:


• Who are in your team?


• Which topic have you chosen?


• What is each member of the team going to do?


4. Wait for confirmation that you can work on that topic (if no other team has chosen it first).


5. Prepare a presentation in .pdf format (you can edit it with PowerPoint or other software, but have ready a copy in .pdf format just in case).


6. Do not include text if possible, only key words, dates, or other important data, but not full sentences.


7. Include a lot of graphic information: images, graphs, maps,...


8. Divide the work among your team mates as you prefer. Each member of the team will present one of four parts.
   Here are some ideas to help you (you may not need or be able to answer all these questions):


1. Introduction


• What happened?


• When and where did it happen?


• Who was involved?


• How many people were affected?




2. Antecedents (a description of the situation before the event)


• What was it like before?


• What had happened before?


• Why were things as they were before it happened?


• How did it start?




3. Causes


• Who decided it or was interested in it?


• Why did they want it to happen?


• Why did it happen?


• How did it happen exactly?




4. Consequences


• How did it finish?


• What were the consequences for the people involved?


• What changed after the event?


• What long-term consequences did it have?


• What lasting effects can we see today?

Assessment rubric — this is how I will calculate your marks:

Score	Presentation (visual)	Presentation (performance)	Content	Language	Pronunciation
2	Very little or no text, relevant images	Well rehearsed, little hesitation, does not read from screen or notes	Complete information, reasonably long	Correctly adapted language for easy comprehension	Reasonable pronunciation
1	Little text, images are nice but not very informative	Scarcely rehearsed, lots of pauses	Scarce information, very short	Little adaptation or abundant errors	Mistakes in technical words
0	Too much text	Badly rehearsed, mostly reads from screen or notes	Too little information, the presentation is too short	Too formal language, hard to undersand	A lot of mistakes in basic words