3/1-8 Basketball Project

I. Civil Rights Post Test

Sports History—

Player Project #1  (Basketball)

Objective: To trace the origins of a major professional basketball player to discover the following:

A.     Biography of the Player

B.     Watershed years for the player in the sport.

C.     Why this player should be acknowledged as a great in basketball

Stats, Rule Changes, Position changes, etc.

D.     Modern History of the Player—Where are they now..

In a minimum 9 pt. Powerpoint presentation, you will formally present your player to the class.  Included in your slides are points A-D in the objectives about your player.   

The project will be scored for accuracy and the visual representation of the powerpoint---but the primary evaluation will be the speech itself.

Players will be chosen by Random Selection with a first picked, first presented format.