Visions Project

I decided to create a WebQuest based on a project already used by the American Studies Department at Valhalla. The project is assigned at the end of the year and asks students to draw on history class studies of America at war and English class study of a YA novel by Walter Dean Myers called Fallen Angels. The WebQuest requires the students to make additional studies of primary source documents (especially letters and journals) from 3 wars in which the U.S. was involved. Students look at 3 different perspectives from each war (in a group) and collectively brainstorm how war has affected the individual over American history. Finally, students individually create an artwork that expresses that theme (how war affects the individual...) and present that artwork to the class. The artwork may be any medium as long as the student can address his/her theme and use specific details or symbols of details to support that theme in the work.