You and your partner need to search the web sites below for information about famous events and people of Maryland during the twentieth century. You need to select anywhere from 8 to 15 of the events/people and gather important information. With your partner, write a short one or two sentence introduction about the person or event and anywhere from 4 - 8 bullets or details about the event or person. Examples will be shared in class. Then, you and your partner will create a PowerPoint presentation summarizing your research. Each of the people or events will become a slide in the presentation. Each slide will need to have a picture and include your introduction/details you wrote. The introduction will be the heading for each slide and the details will be the bullets for each slide. You will learn how to use PowerPoint in class. We will meet approximately 16 times during the next few months. You should break down your time roughly as follows: March 12 - 14...............Look at as many of the sites you can and try to select or list the ones you want to write about. March 19 - 28 ..............Write your introduction sentences and 4 - 8 details for each. You can either write them down on paper or create a Word file. April 2 - May 9 ........... Develop your PowerPoint Presentation. May 14 - May 23 .........Share your PowerPoint Presentations.
John Barth writer, Cambridge Eubie Blake musician, Baltimore Francis X. Bushman actor, Baltimore James M. Cain writer, Annapolis Philip Glass composer, Baltimore Matthew Henson explorer, Charles City Billie Holiday jazz-blues singer, Baltimore Billy Holiday Photo Thurgood Marshall jurist, Baltimore H. L. Mencken writer, Baltimore Babe Ruth baseball player, Baltimore Upton Sinclair author, Baltimore Frank Zappa singer, Baltimore William and Henry Walters father and son art collectors Glenn L. Martin Started aircraft company in Baltimore James Rouse Developed and planned the community of Columbia Barbara Mikulski First Maryland woman U.S. Senator Kurt Schmoke Baltimore's First African American Mayor Cal Ripkin Jr. Major league baseball player for Baltimore Orioles Dr. Ben Carson Famous Baltimore Doctor Ogden Nash Famous poet Sugar Ray Leonard Boxer Tom Clancy Author
African Americans
HISTORICAL
CHRONOLOGY 1900 - 1999 OF MARYLAND Baltimore Streetcar Museum, Inc.
Wright
Brothers Timeline/Maryland's Aviation History Mural at BWI Roads
to the Future The Baltimore
Harbor Tunnel Calvert
Cliffs Nuclear Power Plant Chesapeake
Bay Bridge NASA
Goddard Space Flight Center Maryland Public Television History of the
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