SCENARIO:You represent your company at a service organization dealing with one of this issue:Your supervisor asked you to research information related to the history of one of these issues for your organization to help new employees and volunteers understand it better. You will need to create a slide presentation that summarizes your findings and recommendations.ASSIGNMENT:Back in Unit 2, you chose your issue and your sources and used the critical thinking process to begin to formulate an argument about your topic. Now you will refine your argument and create a slide presentation that’s due at the end of Unit 3.PRESENTATION REQUIREMENTS:Your presentation must be 7–11 slides long, not including the title and sources slides. It must include the following slides:
- title
- outline
- topic
- evidence (4–8 slides with both text and images)
- argument (making connections between past and present)
- sources
Title of Your PowerPoint Presentation Title of Your PowerPoint Presentation First and Last Name Date Slide Instructions: Your title slide is the first slide and should give the viewer an idea of what your presentation will be about. Please include your name and date. Speaker Note Instructions: This is where you can write down what you’d like to say about this slide if you were to give an oral presentation. Your speaker notes will be used to evaluate your project, so make sure you write in complete sentences and pay attention to spelling and grammar. Outline My Topic Sample text: The Industrial Revolution Sample text: The Great Migration Sample text: Factory Work Sample text: WWII and the Economy Making Connections Sources Slide Instructions: An outline slide lets your audience know what to expect from your presentation. This doesn’t need to be the kind of detailed or thorough outline that you might use to plan out a research report. It just needs to include the main idea that each slide will cover—it might even just be the time period covered by that slide. Speaker Note Instructions: This is where you can write down what you’d like to say about this slide if you were to give an oral presentation. Your speaker notes will be used to evaluate your project, so make sure you write in complete sentences and pay attention to spelling and grammar. My Topic Research question you selected in Unit 2. For example: “What happens when the workplace changes? How can people adjust when the workplace changes and what lessons can we learn from the U.S. Industrial Revolution and the Information Age?” Slide Instructions: Your topic is the same as the research question you selected in Unit 2. Define the historical challenges you are presenting on and expand on the topic of your presentation. What questions will you answer? What historical events and approaches will you explore? Speaker Note Instructions: This is where you can write down what you’d like to say about this slide if you were to give an oral presentation. Your speaker notes will be used to evaluate your project, so make sure you write in complete sentences and pay attention to spelling and grammar. Sample text: The Industrial Revolution Sample text: Going from farm work to factories; Factories with poor working conditions Union organization as a strategy (In-text citation with author and date) Add images... Slide Instructions: In these slides, describe the historical challenges, approaches and strategies with supporting evidence. Also, remember to include information from your primary or secondary sources. Speaker Note Instructions: Speaker notes are required for this slide. Write down what you’d like to say about this slide if you were to give an oral presentation. Your speaker notes will be used to evaluate your project, so make sure you write in complete sentences and pay attention to spelling and grammar. Make sure you’re citing the information from your sources using in-text citations in APA style. These citations should include the author's last name and the year of publication for the source, for example, (Mitchell, 2014). Sample text: The Great Migration Sample text: 1915–1940: Migrating from the Jim Crow South to new factory jobs in the North Letter to the Chicago Defender: “Sir I Will Thank You with All My Heart” Add Images... Slide Instructions: In these slides, describe the historical challenges, approaches and strategies with supporting evidence. Also, remember to include information from your primary or secondary sources. Speaker Note Instructions: Speaker notes are required for this slide. Write down what you’d like to say about this slide if you were to give an oral presentation. Your speaker notes will be used to evaluate your project, so make sure you write in complete sentences and pay attention to spelling and grammar. Make sure you’re citing the information from your sources using in-text citations in APA style. These citations should include the author's last name and the year of publication for the source, for example, (Mitchell, 2014). Sample text: Factory Work Sample text: Factory work and new skills Mastery of specialized tasks Close supervision and monotony Located in new areas Some (like Ford) paid well Productivity a must (In-text citation with author and date) Add Images… Slide Instructions: In these slides, describe the historical challenges, approaches and strategies with supporting evidence. Also, remember to include information from your primary or secondary sources. Speaker Note Instructions: Speaker notes are required for this slide. Write down what you’d like to say about this slide if you were to give an oral presentation. Your speaker notes will be used to evaluate your project, so make sure you write in complete sentences and pay attention to spelling and grammar. Make sure you’re citing the information from your sources using in-text citations in APA style. These citations should include the author's last name and the year of publication for the source, for example, (Mitchell, 2014). Sample text: WWII and the Economy Sample text: Great Depression of 1929–1939 Women in factories War industries in place—converting to peacetime New opportunities for work Massive investments New income opportunities (In-text citation with author and date) Add Images... Slide Instructions: In these slides, describe the historical challenges, approaches and strategies with supporting evidence. Also, remember to include information from your primary or secondary sources. Speaker Note Instructions: Speaker notes are required for this slide. Write down what you’d like to say about this slide if you were to give an oral presentation. Your speaker notes will be used to evaluate your project, so make sure you write in complete sentences and pay attention to spelling and grammar. Make sure you’re citing the information from your sources using in-text citations in APA style. These citations should include the author's last name and the year of publication for the source, for example, (Mitchell, 2014). Sample text: The Information Age Sample text: The Dotcom Stock Bubble: 2000 Causes: online retailing inflated stock values The NASDAQ crash of April 2000 The lesson from the Dotcom Stock Bubble (In-text citation with author and date) Add Images... Slide Instructions: In these slides, describe the historical challenges, approaches and strategies with supporting evidence. Also, remember to include information from your primary or secondary sources. Speaker Note Instructions: Speaker notes are required for this slide. Write down what you’d like to say about this slide if you were to give an oral presentation. Your speaker notes will be used to evaluate your project, so make sure you write in complete sentences and pay attention to spelling and grammar. Make sure you’re citing the information from your sources using in-text citations in APA style. These citations should include the author's last name and the year of publication for the source, for example, (Mitchell, 2014). Making Connections Sample text: 1. Embrace economic change instead of resisting it 2. Seek opportunities that match your skills 3. Seek education and training as needed 4. Cultivate agility Slide Instructions: Your connections slide should connect past events to current events related to your issue and research question. Think of this slide as showing lessons you’ve learned from your research. What are the takeaways? How should people in your organization apply history to the present and the future? Try to think of four lessons from the past that you can connect to the present and the future. Speaker Note Instructions: Speaker notes are required for this slide. Write down what you’d like to say about this slide if you were to give an oral presentation. Your speaker notes will be used to evaluate your project, so make sure you write in complete sentences and pay attention to spelling and grammar. Make sure you’re citing the information from your sources using in-text citations in APA style. These citations should include the author's last name and the year of publication for the source, for example, (Mitchell, 2014). Sources Cweik, S. (2014, January 27). The Middle Class Took Off 100 Years Ago ... Thanks to Henry Ford?. NPR. https://www.npr.org/2014/01/27/267145552/the-middle-class-took-off-100-years-ago-thanks-to-henry-ford Geier, Ben. (2015, March 12). What Did We Learn from the Dotcom Stock Bubble of 2000? Time. www.time.com/3741681/2000-dotcom-stock-bust National Child Labor Committee Collection—Images—Child Labor—Accidents (1908–1924). (n.d.). Library of Congress. https://www.loc.gov/pictures/related/?q=Accidents.&fi=subjects&co=nclc “Sir I Will Thank You with All My Heart”: Seven Letters from the Great Migration. (n.d.). History Matters. http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5332/ Slide Instructions: This touchstone requires you to use at least two primary sources and two secondary sources. You already chose and analyzed these sources in the touchstone from Unit 2. Now you just need to add them to this slide. Following APA formatting, your sources should appear in alphabetical order. Speaker Note Instructions: Speaker notes are not needed on this slide. Engaging Economic Change: Lessons from American History Engaging Economic Change: Lessons from American History Sharon Harrison 08/03/2021 My presentation today is about some lessons we can learn from history to better help people today as they try to succeed in the face of rapid economic changes. This organization that dedicates itself to helping those who are unemployed or looking for some better job situation, has asked me to do a short review of this issue historically so that we can glean some lessons for how best to help. OUTLINE My Topic Industrial Revolution Great Migration Factory Work Post-WWII – Ending Difficult Years with Hopes Information Age – the Digital Divide Information Age – Bookstores Making Connections – Now and the Future Sources My presentation will be in six parts as shown here. I have selected some examples, using both primary sources and secondary sources. These examples are ones we can learn from. Topic What happens when the workplace changes? How can people adjust when the workplace changes and what lessons can we learn from the U.S. Industrial Revolution and the Information Age? What happens when the workplace changes because of shifts in the types of work? To be more specific, our topic asks a question and finds ways this has been answered in the past. What happens when the workplace changes because of shifts in the types of work? Examples of such transformations in US History include the transition to the Industrial Revolution, the transition from the Great Depression and WWII economy to the boom of the 1950s, and the rise of the Information Age we are still experiencing. People adjusted by moving to areas with more job opportunities, improving their education and training profile, and making lifestyle and career changes. They needed an agile mindset that embraced change and vigorously sought new opportunities. Industrial Revolution Many Problems: Late 1800s to early 1900s Americans going from farm or former work to factories Challenges: Poor working conditions and safety standards; child labor; low wages; prejudices; new tasks. (Rafferty, n.d.) This image is an example of child labor in a factory in Macon, Georgia in 1909. The INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION took off in the United States in the late 1800s and early 1900s and was reinvigorated by World War II’s war economy. These changes were going to happen no matter what individuals preferred in terms of their former mode of life. People must work and eat. The new economy meant more factories, more mining, new systems of work and production that few could evaluate until change was upon them (Rafferty, n.d.) CHALLENGES: The Industrial Revolution brought several challenges to workers and workplaces. There were adjustments for people to make—going from farm work to factory work, relocating, developing new skills and expectations for a new type of workplace. The new system was originally very unregulated, so problems of exploitation---poor working conditions, unsafe workplaces, child labor, often low wages, etc. For example, according to Cweik (2014), “Factory workers often labored 14–16 hours per day six days per week.” But, the increase in productivity and profitability of the new economy was unmistakable (Rafferty, n.d.). LESSONS: To address the challenges of child labor, poor working conditions and unsafe factories, cities implemented “modern building codes, health laws, and urban planning” (Rafferty, n.d.). We can learn from this that getting involved in municipal government and advocating for policies to support labor are strategies that we can use to adapt to the changing workplace. A second lesson is that the old ways of work would not be so available. People must change to survive or succeed. Through migration, workers moved from rural areas to urban, industrialized areas. The Great Migration, a large-scale movement of African Americans to northern factory cities, is explored further in our next slide. Great Migration 1915-1940 African Americans migrating from Jim Crow south to new factory jobs in north Evidence: Letter to the Chicago Defender “Sir I will thank you with all my heart” (History Matters, n.d.) Britannica.com states that this images shows an “African American family from the rural South arriving in Chicago, 1920.” One of the great examples of courageous and necessary change can be found by the thousands of African Americans who considered and then took part in the Great Migration between 1915 and 1940 (History Matters, n.d.). CHALLENGES: African Americans stuck in the Jim Crow south found it hard to make a living. They looked to move north—scouted for guidance and opportunities (History Matters, n.d.). EXAMPLE: African Americans who were a part of this migration wrote to northern newspapers, desperately trying to connecting with a northern newspapers, like the Chicago Defender, for help. They would write about their hardships and trying