Extra Credit

Count yourselves lucky if you are reading this...I have NEVER given an extra credit assignment. Freshmen, if you would like to do a research project and oral presentation on one aspect of the Russian Revolution, I will use this extra credit assignment as follows:

1. It can replace ANY quiz grade
2. It can add 5 points to ANY test grade
3. It will eradicate 2 homework grades
4. It will eradicate 3 vocab grades

RULES:
You may chose a topic from the list below...only one person per topic
You may use Wikis, Powerpoint or a poster as a visual aide. YOU MUST have a visual aid
You must present your information in class on Tuesday, March 2nd

GRADING:
Presentation will be grade on:
1. quality of content
2. quality of public speaking (use note cards...don't read off of paper or the computer).
3. quality and relevance of your visual

Topics:

1). Czar Nicholas II
2). Joseph Stalin
3). Vladimir Lenin
4) Leon Trotsky
5). George Orwell
6). The Great Purge
7). Stalin’s 5 Year plans
8). Stalin/ Hitler Pact 1939
9). October Revolution
10). February Revolution
11). Stalin’s Secret Police & Pravda and propaganda
12). Relations between USSR, USA & England during WWII