Senior Extra Credit

As an extra credit assignment for The Color of Water, you may choose to do a research presentation on one of the two following topics. Feel free to either give an overview on some of the subtopics, or pick one or two of the subtopics to focus on. Your presentation should be about five minutes (No more than ten minutes, no less than three). Make sure you are not reading to the class. You may use powerpoint for bullet points, but make sure you are explaining the topic.
There should be some kind of visual component to this project.

1) Jewish law:
What customs and rituals are carried out by people of the Jewish faith? What are the different types of Judaism? Some suggestions on what to include-
- clothing
- keeping kosher
- The haggadah
- seders
- Yiddish
- The Shvartses

2) Famous figures in The Civil Rights Movement (excluding the people we all know about like Martin Luther King Jr and Rosa Parks). Make sure to focus on this person's life relative to the Civil Rights Movement. Some suggestions are-

- Bobby Seale
- Huey Newton
- Floyd Patterson
- Bob Gibson
- Paul Robeson
- Jackie Robinson
- Eleanor Roosevelt
- Philip Randolph
- The Kennedys
- Malcolm X
- The Ku Klux Klan


This presentation is due March 30th (The earlier, the better)
Your topic proposal is due March 26th (Try to get it in by March 22nd)