Summary Statement of Content Standard:

Description of Student Performances:

Task 2: Research and produce a scrapbook of the cultural expressions of one particular time period in German immigration history. The cultural expressions include major writings, publications, or both; artistic works, architecture, technology and daily life and social customs.

Task 3: Write an essay in which you discuss connections between the cultural expressions and their historical context (philosophies, events or conflicts and people and their contributions) and how an understanding of the historical period is affected by investigating the period's cultural expressions.

FINAL ACHIEVEMENT: Use the following scoring criteria when evaluating student performance.

Scoring Criteria
4 - Performance on this standard achieves and exceeds expectations of high standard work.
3 - Performance on this standard meets the expectations of high standard work.
2 - Work on this standard has been completed, but all or part of the student's performance is below high standard level.
1 - Work on this standard has been completed, but performance is substantially below high standard level.

PERFORMANCE PACKAGE TASK 1
Expressions of History

Content Standard: Inquiry: History through Culture Level: High School

Specific Statement(s) from the Standard:

What students should do:
A. Interpret ideas from artistic expressions (e.g., historical fiction, visual arts, performing arts, music, etc.) to compare representations of a historical period to selected:

a. Philosophies
b. Events or conflicts
c. People and their contributions

Products:

• Notes
• Timeline
• Feasibility study

Task Description:

You have been studying German immigration to the USA using the book The German-Americans: An Ethnic Experience by Willi Paul Adams. For this task you will identify events, conflicts, leaders, and philosophies of the major time periods of German immigration on a timeline you construct. You will conduct a feasibility study and then research one time period in depth by looking closely at the historical period's cultural (artistic) expressions as a result of the period's philosophies, events, conflicts, and people.

Gather Notes

The notes will be easiest to put in order if you have them on 3x5 cards or individual sheets of paper. You will have to organize your notes in order to make a timeline.

1. Gather and record general information from accounts of German imm1igration:

• Events and/or Conflicts
• Social, political, or economic movements
• Leaders and their contributions.
• Philosophies related to German immigration

• major writings and/or publications
• visual arts
• performing arts
• music
• architecture
• technology
• daily life/social customs
• language.

4. Construct a timeline of German immigration on tagboard or poster paper. Include:

• pertinent dates
• major events and dates concerning German immigration
• philosophies that influenced immigration or attitudes towards the immigrants and the dates of the philosophical influence German immigrants and their contributions

• visually appealing
• chronologically organized
• logically organized

5. Choose a time period to pursue that has sufficient resource materials for your scrapbook (in Task 2).

6. In order to get started on your scrapbook (Task #2), conduct a feasibility study to determine the availability of research materials related to the historical period of German immigration that you have chosen. You will have to find cultural expressions of that time period and relate them to the time period.

Follow these steps:

• Find primary sources related to the time period and its cultural expressions (materials actually written, spoken, or created at the time). Record how and where these sources can be accessed.
• Find secondary sources related to the cultural expressions (accounts, histories, and cultural expressions related to the time but created after the era). Record how and where these sources can be accessed.
• Determine how much time is needed to collect the materials.
• Determine how the materials can be used to complete the project.

Overall Comments (information about student progress, quality of the work, next steps for teacher and student, needed adjustments in teaching and learning processes, and problems to be addressed):

PERFORMANCE PACKAGE TASK 2
Expressions of History

Content Standard: Inquiry: History through Culture Level: High School

Specific Statement(s) from the Standard:

2. Gather information and analyze selected cultural expressions of a period, including:

• major writings and /or publications
• artistic works
• architecture
• technology
• daily life/social customs

Products:

• Notefile
• Scrapbook

Task Description:

For the time period of German immigration you identified in Task 1, you will individually research specific cultural expressions of that time period, collecting all notes in a notefile. You will then prepare a scrapbook of cultural expressions of that time period.

Create Your Notefile

1. Individually, create a file of more specific information relating to your historical period. (You can use any relevant notes you may have already gathered.) Remember that some data may not be directly related to your topic but may have indirectly affected the historical climate. Include notes on all relevant data.

2. Begin by identifying significant historical:

• events or conflicts
• movements or trends
• leaders and their contributions.

• a description of the event/conflict/movement/trend/leader
• dates
• geographic regions (if applicable)
• documentation of sources.

4. You should also begin to identify ten specific cultural expressions of German immigration (done by or about German immigrants) that relate to your time period of German immigration in the categories of:

• major writings and/or publications (popular books, journals, magazines, newspapers)
• visual arts (paintings)
• performing arts (films, theater)
• music
• architecture, architectural styles
• technology
• daily life/social customs (food, clothing, manners)
• language (popular verbal expressions, which language used)

• Who?
• What?
• Where?
• When?
• Why?
• How?

6. Write a series of questions appropriate for each one of the cultural expressions you are researching.

7. Gather information to answer your questions within the context of the historical period. In your notes, connect historical data to the cultural expression, explain the connection, and support the connection with specific examples and details.

8. For each of your ten specific cultural expressions, make sure you record:

• description
• dates (as appropriate)
• significance of the cultural expression to the historical period
• source information (title, author, publisher, city and date of publication)

• frequency with which the cultural expression was used or referred to
• where it was used or referred to
• creator's or participants' comments
• social critiques and comments.

Prepare for Your Scrapbook

11. From the ten cultural expressions you have researched, choose five to develop into a scrapbook. The five cultural expressions must each be from a different category (writing, theater, music, etc.)

12. Create charts, visual displays, and visual organizers to show how your five cultural expressions relate to the time period in which they were created. Include authentic or replicated cultural expressions. Photographs and other replicas are acceptable if the genuine items are not accessible.

13. Each cultural expression should include specific examples and details about:

• how the cultural expression reflects the time period you have chosen
• the historical context: how specific events, conflicts, movements, trends, people, etc., were favorable for the cultural expression's creation or popularity
• the impact the cultural expression had on larger societies, governments, and/or other cultures.

15. For each cultural expression you include in your scrapbook, include:

• a statement of how the cultural expressions presented are connected to the historical time period you have chosen.
• a statement of how the historical period affected or engendered the cultural expressions
• a statement of how the cultural expressions affected larger societies, governments, and/or other cultures.

16. For the conclusion of your scrapbook, you will be writing an essay describing the relationship between each category of cultural expression and the historical period's philosophies, events, conflicts, movements, trends, and leaders.

17. The teacher will facilitate a class discussion about how an understanding of a historical period is affected by investigating the period's cultural expressions. Take notes during the discussion (for your individual use in Task 3).

Overall Comments (information about student progress, quality of the work, next steps for teacher and student, needed adjustments in teaching and learning processes, and problems to be addressed):

Content Standard: Inquiry: History through Culture
Level: High School

Specific Statement(s) from the Standard:

A. Interpret ideas from artistic expressions (e.g., historical fiction, visual arts, performing arts, music, etc.) to compare representations of a historical period to selected:

a. philosophies
b. events or conflicts
c. leaders and their contributions

a. major writings and /or publications
b. artistic works
c. architecture
d. technology
e. daily life/social customs

Product:

• Essay (to be added to scrapbook)

Task Description:

You will write a three to five page typed essay describing what its cultural expressions reveal about the historical period and examining how the study of the period's cultural expressions affects interpretations of the historical period. It will be inserted into your scrapbook.

Steps:

1. Begin by drafting responses to the following question: "What is the relationship between the various categories of cultural expression and their historical context?"

2. Provide specific historical data on the period's philosophies, events or conflicts, movements or trends, leaders and their contributions.

3. Make connections between the historical data and each of the 5 cultural expressions you are using in your scrapbook. Then make a generalized statement about the entire category of each cultural expression and its relationship to the historical period.

For instance, considering the category of clothing styles for the Sixties, we could make connections between blue jeans and the Anti-War and Civil Rights movements by stating that the history of blue jeans shows they were associated with the lower economic classes of working people, which ties into the values and beliefs of both those movements. Having provided that specific historical information, we could make an assertion about clothing styles in the Sixties, such as, "Clothing styles tended to become more informal throughout U.S. society, which helped to break down class distinctions because people couldn't be automatically identified as belonging to a lower economic class just by wearing casual clothing."

4. Using the notes you took during the Task 2 class discussion, and reflecting on this entire project, draft responses to the following question: "How is an understanding of an historical period affected by investigating the period's cultural expressions?" Provide specific examples and details to support your conclusions.

5. Review all the draft responses you have made to the two questions, organize your material, and create a three to five page typed essay. Be sure to support all your statements with specific examples and details. (For paper format and documentation of sources, follow the guidelines provided by your teacher.)

FEEDBACK CHECKLIST FOR TASK 3

Y=Yes
N=Needs Improvement

Overall Comments (information about student progress, quality of the work, next steps for teacher and student, needed adjustments in teaching and learning processes, and problems to be addressed):

http://www.artsci.uc.edu/german/about/GermanAmerican/links.html
German-American links provided by German-American Studies at University of Cincinnati.

http://www.serve.com/shea/germusa/germusa.htm
Robert Shea's German-Americana websites

http://www.ulib.iupui.edu/collections/kade/adams/cover.html
German Americans: an Ethnic Experience (complete text)

http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/JWCRAWFORD/Castro1.htm
The Future of Spanish in the United States (parallels can be drawn with German immigration)

Created: 17 August 1999, LDB Updated: 28 July 2008, BAS Comments to: IUPUI Max Kade German-American Center, mkgac@iupui.edu This page sponsored and maintained by IUPUI University Libraries. URL: http://www.ulib.iupui.edu/collections/kade/package.html Original Contributions Copyright © 1999 - The Trustees of Indiana University

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