Process
Your search will yield no more than 10 artifacts that will be significant enough for people in another time and place to have an idea what life was like in your time and place. One of the richest sources of information on the Mayan world view comes from recent work done in interpreting Mayan hieroglyphs and the Mayan calendar. You will be provided with print and online reources that will help you make your choices. If you feel it is important to include examples of this magnificent art, you may submit "pretend" stone carvings (drawings or photographs ) as examples of artifacts. Remember that you are the spokesperson not only for your family but for your civilization. You are not just presenting information; you are writing from the heart about how these artifacts will tell the world about your cherished, but soon to be extinct, way of life.
You will be working in a team of three. Your final product will be a video that you create in PhotoStory 3 with a first person narration. Remember that you are assuming someone else's identity and you need to speak convincingly.
Here are some links that will be useful:
http://www.civilization.ca/civil/maya/mmc04eng.html - Mayan writing systems
Coe, Michael. Breaking the Maya Code. Thames & Hudson, 1966.
Schele, Linda, and David Friedel. A Forest of Kings: the Untold Story of the Ancient Maya. New York: Morrow, 1990.
Each one of the team members will research a specific area. One will do sculpture, one will do architecture and one will do tools. Each person will come up with four recommendations. After the research has been completed, you will convene again as a team and make your decisions. Then you will start assembling your Photo Story project.
Follow these general guidelines when you create your Photo Story video:
1) Create the storyboard. Decide which images you will include and the order in which they will appear.
2) Write the narrations that will accompany each image.
3) Decide upon what background music, if any, you will include.
In each stage of production, remember to honor the copyright laws you have learned about in class. When recording the narrations, be sure to take turns doing the recording and don't forget to use the spit guard.
Good luck!