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=G.R.A.S.P.S= //( Feel free to copy and paste what you have on your wiki page for Dr. Grace for the GRASPS portion.)// Oral Presentation Rubric: Content, comprehension, stays on topic, creativity, preparedness, enthusiasm. || =Understanding(s)= The 1920's was a time of innovation leading to the downfall of a thriving economy.
 * Goal || Create a podcast representing a radio broadcast of the 1920's. ||
 * Role || Students will take on the role(s) of any form of newscaster. (i.e. news anchor, sports caster, weather man, politician.) ||
 * Audience || The Radio Corporation of America. ||
 * Setting || Trying to receive a position(s) at a National radio station hosting a new history themed show. ||
 * Presentation || Students will create a podcast using Garage band and submit it online as a try-out for the RCA. ||
 * Standards || Garageband Rubric: Awareness of audience, speaks clearly, duration, enthusiasm, accuracy of facts, point of view.

=Introduction=

Welcome! You are about to get a once in a life time opportunity! We listen, read, and watch the news every day and people are very concerned with current events around the United States, but what about historical news? What did people from the early 1900's look for in the news? Well you have the opportunity to find out with a once in a lifetime opportunity!

=Task= Radio Corporation of America (RCA) is looking for a history-themed radio show, hosted by two people, to put on the airwaves. As the historian and up-and-coming radio casters you are, you sign up to try-out for the chance to be on a National radio station! The try-out consists of submitting a 5-10 minute long podcast, using GarageBand, giving a sample of you and your partner's radio skills and history knowledge to the RCA. The options are endless, you can be sports casters and discuss the Yankees countless World Series wins and Babe Ruth's records, news anchors and announce Henry Ford's invention of the Model T, or cover two different topics altogether. The RCA wants the radio show to have style and excitement while covering different major events of the 1920's, so you have many options as long as you stay on topic and relate it to the right time period. Teams that use slang and terms more likely to be heard in the 1920's are more likely to impress the judges. If you stand tall above the rest, you will get the opportunity to co-host the RCA's new history-themed radio show on a National broadcast station! Good-luck!

=Conclusion= Congratulations! You have completed your try-out to become the Radio Corporation of America's next big radio star! Your knowledge on 1920's people and the events that followed has helped you become a better historian and your skill on the mic has brought you so far on the airwaves! You have had the opportunity to work with different interactive graphic organizer creators and now have a better idea of the different types of news that would have been reported during the roaring twenties. You have discovered that the news we all seek out today such as political events and sports were also the news people sought out during the 1920's!

Will you be chosen as the next radio co-hosts of the RCA? Their have been many submissions sent in, but only one team can fulfill the job as the historian masters of the 1920's. You will be hearing from the RCA as soon as a decision has been made. The effort you have put in will hopefully get you the job you deserve!