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 | Student will create a PowerPoint Presentation by researching a Historical Figure in United States history along with related events of the time period while we continue to develop the habits of mind that make us successful in school, the work world, and life. View Some Projects Created by former students: Think about what represents high quality work? Sample Projects | ||||||
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Students must have a
Work Cite Slide(s) referencing
all Internet/Media resources used. Please add sites to your favorites folder
for future citation referencing. See "Cite Resources" handout below for format
and details. Students may print handouts if necessary.
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Students may use
the following handouts for
support and direction. Students may print handouts if necessary.
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Create high
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End Goal finish project on time and present project to the class teaching all of us about your selected famous American and the great events of his/her life time. Accuracy of information is important along with properly citing resources. |
Table of Outstanding Famous Americans, "Historical Figures" :
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Jefferson Davis Confederate President |
Mary Todd Lincoln First Lady |
Robert E. Lee General of the South |
Ulysses S. Grant Northern Commander Civil War |
William Tecumseh Sherman Northern Commander Civil War |
Stonewall Jackson Confederate Commander |
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Sacagawea Explorer |
Jane Addams First American Woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize |
Rosa Parks Civil Rights |
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Civil Rights Leader |
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Wright Brothers Inventor |
General George C. Marshall World War II |
Neil A. Armstrong Astronaut |
John Glenn Jr. NASA Astronaut |
Senator Margaret Chase Smith First woman elected to both houses of Congress |
Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin Jr. NASA Astronaut |
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Edward Kennedy Senator |
Robert Kennedy Senator |
Bill Gates Microsoft |
General John Pershing World War I |
Henry Ford Industrialist |
Warren G. Harding 29th President |
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Charles A. Lindberg American Aviator |
Harriet Tubman African American |
Frederick Douglass African American |
Elizabeth Cady Stanton Women's Rights Movement |
Ernest Hemingway American Writer |
Benjamin Franklin Scientist and Inventor |
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Geronimo 1829-1890 Apache Chief |
Susan B. Anthony Women's Rights Movement |
Mary Lyon Pioneer Higher Education for Women |
Clara Barton American Red Cross Founder |
George Washington Carver African American Inventor |
William F. Cody Buffalo Bill (1846-1917) |
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Davy Crockett Frontiersman |
Rudy Giuliani NY Mayor 911 |
Walt Disney Pioneer and Innovator |
Helen Keller Deaf Blind Role Model |
George Armstrong Custer Lieutenant-Colonel of the Seventh Cavalry Battle of the Little Bighorn |
Amelia Earhart Aviation Pioneer |
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Horace Mann " The Father of American Education" |
H. L. Mencken Newspaper Writer |
Pocahontas Indian Princess |
Joseph Pulitzer Newspaper Publisher |
General Douglas MacArthur World War I |
General George Patton |
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Norman Rockwell Artist |
Margaret Sanger Founder of the Birth Control Movement |
Dred Scott Slave Who Sue for his freedom in 1847 |
Sequoya Native American Leader and Inventor of the Cherokee Alphabet |
Elizabeth Seton Women's Rights Movement |
Sitting Bull Sioux Chief |
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W.E.B. DuBois Black Nationalism and Pan-Africanism |
Malcolm X Civil Rights Leader |
Prominent African-Americans |
Bessie Coleman African American Aviation Pioneer |
Eddie Richenbacer (AEF) World War I Hero |
African American Scientists |
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Condoleezza Rice National Security Advisor |
Tim Berners-Lee Inventor of the World Wide Web |
Alexander Graham Bell Inventor |
Dr. Engelbart Inventor of the Computer Mouse |
Grace Murray Hopper Inventor of the first computer compiler in 1952 |
Outstanding Hispanic Americans |
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John Brown (1800-1859) |
Table of Great American Events :
| 1906 Birth of Broadcasting |
The Roaring Twenties 1919 -1929 |
1914 Completion of The Panama Canal |
The War of 1812 | Revolutionary War 1700 -1790 |
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| The Nuclear Age 1945 - 1975 |
The Space Age 1957 - 1976 |
The Civil War 1861 -1865 |
The Great Depression 1929 - 1939 |
Mexican
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| World War II 1939 -1945 |
The War in Vietnam 1965 - 1973 |
The Gulf War 1991 |
Civil Rights 1955 - 1968 |
The
Spanish-American War 1898 |
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| Women's Rights 1900 - 1920 |
World War I 1914 - 1918 |
Golden Decade 1920 - 1929 |
The Counter Culture 1960s |
Cold War 1945 -1990 |
Desert
Storm 1990-1991 |
| Korean War 1950 - 1953 |
War and Protest 1970 - 1979 |
Iraqi Freedom 2003 |
The Progressive ERA 1900 - 1920 |
Operation Enduring Freedom 2001 | |
You may use any
of the following sites or Search engines to make your selection and research
a historical figure including historical events from their life time.
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Quote Sites - "Tip use quotation marks and note author!"
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Audio Music
Sound Sites
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Sound to
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http://musicloops.com/
FindSounds (Sound effects) A1Free Sound Effects (Click on the option for free sounds) Grooveshark.com (Listen Entertainment) |
The History Channel’s Historical Speeches Great American Speeches from PBS |
Download
PowerPoint Viewer Click Here
Cite Books from Computer Lab: "Tip copy & paste citations"
Keenan, Sheila. Scholastic Book of Outstanding Americans. Copyright 2003
DK, Smithsonian. Children's Encyclopedia of American History. Copyright 2003
Reader's Digest. Great Events of the 20th Century, How They Changed Our Lives. Copyright 1977
Time Life Books. Echoes of Glory, Arms and Equipment of The Union. Printed 1998.
Time Life Books. Echoes of Glory, Arms and Equipment of The Confederacy. Printed 1998.
Time Life Books. Echoes of Glory, Illustrated Atlas of The Civil War. Printed 1998.
White, Nancy Bean. Meet John F. Kennedy. Copyright 1965.
De Kay, Ormonde , Jr. Meet Andrew Jackson. Copyright 1967.
Freedman, Russell. Scholastic Inc. 100 People Who Changed America. Copyright 2004.
Work Cited
Slide(s):
Students will give credit to
resource with a work cited
slide listing all Internet/Media resources used for this project. Students
must label the work cited section/slide(s) as such.
List all Internets sites referencing information or graphics
as such:
Work Cited
Author. Page title. URL. Date.
Note everything is divided by a period.
Date is simply the date you accessed information on the Internet.
URL or Web Page Title must be an active Hyperlink in PowerPoint.
If author of the page can not be located students may omit the author and
list information available such as:
Page title. URL. Date.
These three items are always available!
Student goal to use four different resources:
One Site from Mrs. Nasto's Resource List
Two Reliable Sites you found from your own search
A Book or other media resources
Example: Citation
Infoplease.com. Encyclopedia. John Adams. http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/people/A0802435.html. 05/2006.
All rights reserved ~ Mrs. Nasto 2002
