Famous Deaf People, Places, or Events

Due Thursday, May 11th, 2017 at 8:20AM to

Each student is assigned a person, place or event that impacted Deaf history. You will research the topic, locate information, and find pictures or videos that will be placed in a PowerPoint or Prezi and later presented to the class. These are honored people, places and events. Please be respectful about what you find and what you show.

Your responsibility is to teach the class about these important topics as if they knew nothing about the person, place, or event. They need to know who, what, when, where, why, and how. Most importantly, find out how this particular person, place or event impacted the Deaf community. Use the following questions as guidelines for your presentation:

Famous Person Questions to Answer:

  1. When/where/how did this individual grow up?
  2. How did he/she become deaf?
  3. What is he/she doing with his/her life?
  4. What did the person accomplish?
  5. Why is this person important to Deaf culture?

Famous Places or Events Questions to Answer:

  1. When/where/how did this event or place begin?
  2. What was the purpose of the event or place?
  3. What did the place or event accomplish?
  4. Why is this place or event important to Deaf culture?

Everyone will be responsible for learning the information presented by all people. You will see these topics on your final exam day.

This is a project grade.

You will be graded as follows:

Category / 20 / 15 / 10 / 5
Content / Project includes all material needed to give a good understanding of the topic. The project is consistent with the driving question. / Project is lacking one or two key elements. Project is consistent with driving question most of the time. / Project is missing more than two key elements. It is rarely consistent with the driving question. / Project is lacking several key elements and has inaccuracies. Project is completely inconsistent with driving question.
Organization / Information is organized in a clear, logical way. It is easy to anticipate the next slide. / Most information is organized in a clear, logical way. One slide or piece of information seems out of place. / Some information is logically sequenced. An occasional slide or piece of information seems out of place. / There is no clear plan for the organization of information.
Mechanics / Presentation has no misspellings or grammatical errors. / Presentation has 1-2 misspellings, but no grammatical errors. / Presentation has 1-2 grammatical errors but no misspellings. / Presentation has more than 2 grammatical and/or spelling errors.
Creativity / All graphics are attractive (size and colors) and support the topic of the presentation. / A few graphics are not attractive but all support the topic of the presentation. / All graphics are attractive but a few do not support the topic of the presentation. / Several graphics are unattractive AND detract from the content of the presentation.
Presentation and Cooperation / The studentpresented at a good rate.He/she maintained eye-contact while using, but not reading their notes. / The student presented a little faster or slower than necessary. He/she maintained eye-contact, but relied too much on their notes. / The student presentedtoo fast or slow than necessary. Theyrelied heavily on their notes. / The student presented at a poor rate.He/she read nearly word for word from notes.

People, Places, Events:

Chuck Baird (deaf artist)

Betty Miller (deaf artist)

National Theatre of the Deaf

De’VIA (deaf art)

American School for the Deaf

Laurent Clerc

Abbe De l’Eppe

George W. Veditz

Deaf President Now

National Association of the Deaf

National Black Deaf Advocates

Deaf Nation

Milan Congress of 1880

Alice Cogswell

Martha’s Vineyard

Dummy Hoy (baseball player)

Deaflympics

CJ Jones (comedian/actor)

Curtis Pride (baseball player)

Marlee Matlin (actress)

Sean Berdy (actor)

Ashley Fiolek (motorcross)

Christy Smith (Survivor contestant)

Claudia Gordon (First Deaf African American Attorney)

Heather Whitestone (Miss America winner)

I King Jordan

Linda Bove (actress)

Matt Hamill (previous UFC fighter)

Michelle Banks (actress)

Phyllis Frelich (actress)

Sue Thomas (worked for the FBI)

Peter Cook (poet, actor, storyteller)

Sean Forbes (rapper)

Mark Wood (filmmaker)

Katie Leclerc (deaf actress)

Ryan Lane (deaf actor)

NyleDiMarco (model)

Rosa Lee Timm (visual artist, performer)

Trix Bruce (performer)

Leah Katz-Hernandez (White House Receptionist during Obama administration)

Fred Beam (choreographer, performing artist)