Final Project for Assessment
The activities in these lesson plans provide multiple opportunities for informal evaluation and participation points. The debates, discussions, interviews, and presentations may all be scored during the unit.
For a formal assessment at the close of the unit, print the primary-source photographs and documents from this site, and post them around your classroom, creating a virtual fair. Students will imagine they are visitors to the fair, and write three letters home; one as an entrepreneur looking for new products to make or sell; one as a teenage immigrant from the Chicago tenements; and one as a small-town mayor interested in beautifying his or her city.
Emphasize that their letters should show an understanding of the main points of the unit:
Click here for assessment page.
For a formal assessment at the close of the unit, print the primary-source photographs and documents from this site, and post them around your classroom, creating a virtual fair. Students will imagine they are visitors to the fair, and write three letters home; one as an entrepreneur looking for new products to make or sell; one as a teenage immigrant from the Chicago tenements; and one as a small-town mayor interested in beautifying his or her city.
Emphasize that their letters should show an understanding of the main points of the unit:
- The state of technology and innovation in 1893.
- The contrast between the White City and the darker reality of Chicago; and
- The influence of the White City's architecture on America's towns and on its expectations for its citizens.
Click here for assessment page.