1. Black History Month Presentation [Your Name] [Your Teacher’s Name] [Your School] [Your Grade] [SAVE YOUR PROJECT AS BLACK HISTORY PROJECT IN YOUR DOCUMENTS FOLDER]

2. Introduction State the significance of Black History Month and why it is important. This section can be one to two slides and can include pictures and/or videos. If including a picture or video, you need to cite it right below (You could insert a text box to do so). It should say: Courtesy of: [insert the web address here]

3. Overview Give a brief overview of what you’ll cover in your presentation You may want to leave this slide blank until the end. You don’t really know what you will cover yet.

4. History Make a timeline of the important historical events in Black history. Go to Insert- Table to make a table like the one below. Name of Event 1Name of Event 2Name of Event 3Name of Event 4Name of Event 5Name of Event 6 1 st Date2 nd Date3 rd Date4 th Date5 th Date6 th Date Description of Event

5. Interesting Facts List 5 interesting facts about Black History Month in a bulleted list.

6. Black History Leader Choose an important person in black history and discuss the person’s life and accomplishments. What are they known for? How did/do they contribute to others to make them worthy of recognition? Do they contribute to humanitarian efforts or charities? Use the next two to three slides to outline why they are important. Do NOT just cut and paste from the Internet! That is plagiarism! Include a picture of the person. http://www.biography.com/blackhistory/people/legal.jsp Here are some ideas: Barack Obama, Jackie Robinson, Benjamin Banneker, Sojourner Truth, Frederick A. Douglas, Harriet Tubman, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Granville T. Woods, Ida B Wells- Barnett, George Washington Carver, Matthew A. Henson, W.E.B. DuBois, James Weldon Johnson, Mary McLeod Bethune, Carter G. Woodson, A. Philip Randolph, Louis Armstrong, Marian Anderson, Ralph Johnson Bunche, Jesse Owens, Martin Luther King, Jr.

7. Add more information about your person here. You can include a video of the person, if one is available. Save the movie to your documents and then click Insert- Movies and Sounds, find your file, and then click to add it into your presentation.

8. Arts and Literature Provide one example of art and one of literature that are significant to Black History Month. Include a picture of each and label it.

9. How We Celebrate List five ways we celebrate Black History Month around the nation. Include a picture of a celebration.

10. Conclusion Provide a brief summary of your presentation.

11. Resources List ALL the online resources in alphabetical order that you used for your research in correct MLA format. See example below: Go this this website for more ways to cite: http://www.virtualsalt.com/mla.htm References Author’s Last Name, Author’s First Name. Title of Web Page. [Online] Available at: URL of specific site, date of document or download. Lane, Sarah. The Nuts And Bolts of College Writing. [Online] Available at: http://www.classbrain.com/artteensb/publish/article_94.shtml, 9 May, 2003.