Poster Title:
Antebellum Education Reform
Short Essay on the Significance
of this Reform Movement:……..
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Timeline for
Reform
Movement
Date: Event, etc.
1820: 1st Public
school
Opened in
XXXXX
1836: XXXXX
Movement
Started by
Anna
Brooks
1851: XXX Reader
Became 1st
Textbook
Catholic Church Burned during Philadelphia Bible Riots, 1843
Profile of Your Assigned Reformer:
John Smith: The Father of
Education
Your Poster Must Include the Following:
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6.
This Poster Created by:
Your Name
7.
8.
Title
Slogan
Timeline of Reform Movement
Profile of Your Assigned Reformer
including picture, quote & Short
Biography.
At least two written & 2 illustrated
primary sources (on Reformer or
movement) with source, caption, date.
Short Essay on Significance of Reform
Movement.
Your Name on Front.
Sources Cited Correctly on Back.
Quotation from Reformer:
"Education, then, beyond all other
devices of human origin, is the great
equalizer of the conditions of men the balance wheel of the social
machinery."
Ned has fed the hen.
She is a black hen.
She has left the nest.
See the eggs in the
nest!
Will the hen let Ned
get them?
McGuffey Reader, 1836
Brief Biography of Reformer: In
paragraph form. You can include all reform movements they
were active in: John Smith was born to a very poor
farming family in Ohio. As a man he was responsible for
improving public education in Illinois and had an major
impact on educational reform throughout
America…..(keep going)
Reform Movement Time Period: 1800-1865
Poster Size at least 24” X 36”
Choices of Reformers to Sign-Up For:
Abolition Movement
John Brown
Frederick Douglass
William Lloyd Garrison
Angelina Grimke
Elijah Lovejoy (W2 only)
Sojourner Truth
Harriet Tubman
Asylums
Dorothea Dix
Religious Reform
Mother Ann Lee (W2 only)
Joseph Smith (W2 only)
Education
Josiah Holbrook (Lyceums)
W.H. McGuffey (W2 Only)
Horace Mann
Transcendentalism
Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Sarah) Margaret Fuller
Henry David Thoreau
Temperance Movement
Lyman Beecher
Women’s Movement
Elizabeth Blackwell
Sarah Grimke
Lucretia Mott
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
2nd Great Awakening
Charles Grandison Finney
Poster Rubric Scoring:
Citing internet Sites—Most Sites:
5
5
10
20
Author’s Last Name, First Name. Name of Site: URL; date updated or accessed.
Alford, Mark. Bleeding Kansas: http://members.aol.com/marccalford/pp235.htm; 8/11/98.
Signed Article within Internet Site:
Author’s Last Name, First. “Title of Article.” Name of Site: URL (of Article); date accessed or
updated.
Crouch, Jacob and Ben Gould, and Scott Hays. “World War II: The Home Front.” Thinkquest:
http://hyperion.advanced.org/15511; 5/1/98.
Unsigned Article within Internet Site:
“Title of Article.” Name of Site: URL (of Article); date updated or accessed.
“Whose Who in Cold War Espionage.” CNN Interactive: The Cold War:
http://CNN.com/SPECIALS/cold.war/experience/spies/; 1/5/99.
Internet Source with Sponsoring Organization:
Name of Site: URL (of Article). Sponsoring Organization: date updated or accessed.
Aboard the Underground Railroad: http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/underground/. National Park
Service: 11/20/98.
20
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Title
Slogan
Timeline of Reform Movement
Assigned Reformer
5
Image
5
Quote
10
Biography
4 Primary Sources (movement or
reformer)
5 each for 2 illustrated (w caption if
needed)
5 each for 2 written (w source, date)
Essay on Significance of Movement
Sources Correctly Cited (at least 6
separate sources (including images)
Factual Accuracy & Detail
Creativity, Neatness, Visual Appeal,
type is large enough to read.
100
0 on project if plagiarized.