"Design a Louisiana T-shirt"
Rachel
White
McNeese State University
This lesson helps students focus of the
best parts of Louisiana. By designing a shirt to "sell to the public" they
get to think about all the things positive about our state and put that
image of a shirt.
The "CRI-TEE-RIA" includes having a catchy
saying with a little humor, have bold colorful, eye-catching graphics,
and must have accurate content.
This ideas can be used as for any
chapter. It could be a shirt to represent a time period in history or a
historical site. They could do this to celebrate a great event - "What
if the student was a t-shirt vendor after the Battle of New Orleans, following
the end of slavery, as a protest of the Jim Crow laws, or after Huey was
shot? What type of shirt would they create to sell?
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Step one: Print out t-shirt templates
and Cri"Tee"ria sheet.
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Step two: Explain that the student
is to create a shirt (front and/or back) that postively represents the
state (or historial event).
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Step three: Shirt should be finished
in pencil colors and black ink.
The word.doc files can be printed from here:
T-shirt front,
back, and Cri-Tee-ria.
Plain T-shirt, (no header) |
