Mr. Felts' 5th Grade Classroom
Thursday, June 4, 2015
Tuesday, May 12, 2015
Wax Museum Project - Directions and Websites
Directions for Wax
Museum Project
1. Choose
a person who lived during the American Revolution to research.
2. Find
the required information and record it on the biography report planning sheet.
3. Then
take the information you collected and use it to write a script for your Wax
Museum presentation. Remember that you
will become the character, so you will need to write it in the first
person. For example: “Hello, my name is
George Washington. I was born . . . .”
4. You
will need to dress up as your character.
Be creative and use things you already have at home to make your
costume.
5. Draw
a background for yourself, which reflects something important from your
character’s life. Here are a few
examples: George Washington lived at Mt. Vernon, so you could draw a picture of
his house. Ben Franklin was famous for
his kite experiment, so you could draw a picture of him flying his kite on a
stormy night. John Paul Jones was a
famous sea captain, so you could draw his ship battling the British.
6. Memorize
your script.
7. The
date of our Wax Museum will probably be 5:00 Wed. May 27.
Good beginning point. Lots of people's names, and, if you click on a name, it offers a quick overview of that individual.
http://www.theamericanrevolution.org/people.aspx
Other websites for research:
- http://ethemes.missouri.edu/themes/1353
- http://www.region18.org/page.cfm?p=1012
- http://www.dmoz.org/Kids_and_Teens/School_Time/Social_Studies/History/By_Region/North_America/United_States/Wars/Revolutionary_War/Biographies
- http://www.kidinfo.com/american_history/american_revolution.html
- http://www.42explore2.com/revolt.htm
- http://www.dasd-ew.org/history.htm
- http://www.socialstudiesforkids.com/wwww/us/uslistrevolutionarywar.htm
- http://kids.yahoo.com/directory/Around-the-World/Countries/United-States/History/Colonial-Life-(1585-1783)/American-Revolutionary-War/Biographies
Wax Museum - List of Characters
Possible Characters (Divided by Theme)
Women
of the Revolution:
- Abigail Adams
- Esther Reed
- Lydia Darragh
- Mary Katherince Goddard
- Mercy Otis Warren
- Patience Wright
- Phillis Wheatley
- Sybil Ludington
- Deborah Sampson
- Margaret Corbin
- Mary “Molly” Hays (Molly Pitcher)
Influential
African Americans:
- Phillis Wheatley
- Sojourner Truth
- Benjamin Banneker
- Nat Turner
- Frederick Douglas
- Harriet Tubman
Explorers
and/or Early Colonists:
- Christopher Columbus
- Vasco de Gama
- John Smith
- Myles Standish
Early
American Colonies
- William Bradford
- William Brewster
- John Carver
- John White
- John Alden
- King George II
Revolutionary
Period and Following:
- John Quincy Adams
- Samuel Adams
- James Madison
- James Monroe
- Benjamin Franklin
- Richard Henry Lee
- Thomas Jefferson
- Thomas Paine
- William Prescott
- Paul Revere
- General George Washington
- Patrick Henry
- John Hancock
- Ethan Allen
- Major General Nathanael Green
British
Sympathizers (Loyalists)
- William Pitt
- Andrew Oliver
- Benedict Arnold
- John Askin
- William Augustas Bowles
- Joseph Brant
- Thomas Burnfoot Brown
- Myles Cooper
- William Franklin
- King George
- Simon Girty
Native
Americans:
- Pocahontas
- Chief Powhatan
- Queen Weetomoo
- Massasoit
- Squanto
- King Philip
- Chief Pontiac
Tuesday, May 5, 2015
Early American History
Day 1-2
Teach us about the Wampanoag Indian tribe before and after
European settlement.
Pre-European contact
·
Where did the Wampanoag live?
·
What was the original size of the tribe?
·
How did they produce or find food?
·
What were their traditional homes like?
·
What was a Wampanoag child’s role?
Describe the interactions between the Wampanoag and white
settlers.
·
Teach us about the great American hero, Squanto,
and how he showed mercy to those he could have hated
·
Teach us about the first Thanksgiving
·
Time passed.
Teach us about King Philip’s War
For the advanced reader.
Not research, just thought provoking:
Day 3-4
Teach us about how profit motivated early entrepreneurs
(like fur traders).
Teach us about how the
French and English (who were enemies) pitted Indian tribes (who were also
enemies) against each other and how they, in a desire to make $, “addicted”
Native Americans to the white way of life (through trade of guns and alcohol).
·
We will discuss the fur-gun-alcohol trade in
class. Give your best summary of it.
·
Also look at links such as: http://www.iroquoisdemocracy.pdx.edu/html/furtrader.htm
In class videos:
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