Al Capone - Businessman or Gangster Card Sort

This card sort activity gets students to weigh up events, facts and quotations from the life of Al-Capone to help them decide how far he was a businessman or gangster. I have included a PowerPoint with aims, objectives, outcomes, a starter as well as some background information to help introduce the task. This resource is designed to work along side any main stream resource on this topic, but the linked YouTube Video works really well alongside it. I would watch the first 25 min.

The aims and objectives are:

You will learn:
Theme: Why did Prohibition fail?
Know: Who was Al Capone?
Understand: What role did he play in helping prohibition fail?
Evaluate: How far was Al Capone a businessman or a gangster?
Skills: Chronology, Source Evaluation & judgement

What Am I Looking For this lesson?
Identify / Describe – Who was Al Capone?
Explain – What role did he play in helping prohibition fail?
Analyse – How far was Al Capone’s activities those of a businessman or a gangster?

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Roy