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

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?

o   http://www.plimoth.org/learn/just-kids/homework-help/who-are-wampanoag

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

o   http://www.socialstudiesforkids.com/articles/ushistory/squanto.htm

o   http://www.biography.com/people/squanto-9491327

o   http://www.ducksters.com/history/native_americans/squanto.php

·      Teach us about the first Thanksgiving

o   http://www.plimoth.org/learn/just-kids/homework-help/thanksgiving

·      Time passed.  Teach us about King Philip’s War

o   http://www.ducksters.com/history/colonial_america/king_philips_war.php

o   http://www.history.com/topics/native-american-history/king-philips-war

For the advanced reader.  Not research, just thought provoking:

·      https://brokenmystic.wordpress.com/2008/11/27/the-truth-about-thanksgiving-brainwashing-of-the-american-history-textbook/

                                                               






Day 3-4

Teach us about how profit motivated early entrepreneurs (like fur traders).

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/newyork//laic/episode1/topic1/e1_t1_s4-ft.html

http://firstpeoplesofcanada.com/fp_furtrade/fp_furtrade2.html

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

·      http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/northamerica/after1500/history/algonquin.htm#!

             

In class videos:

·      https://www.nfb.ca/film/voyageurs

·      http://www.history.com/shows/mankind-the-story-of-all-of-us/videos/fur-trade