Important People in the American Revolution Assignment

Important People in the American Revolution

Due:  Tuesday, December 2, 2008

You will be learning about an important person from the American Revolution.   You will gather information from the Internet about your person and create a blog entry to show others who your person was and why he or she was an important part of the American Revolution.  You can choose from the following people:

George Washington    Patrick Henry                         King George III

Martha Washington    John Hancock                          William Howe

Abigail Adams             Thomas Jefferson                    Thomas Gage

John Adams                 John Paul Jones                       Haym Solomon

Samuel Adams             Marquis de Lafayette             Nathan Hale

Ethan Allen                  William Dawes         Richard Montgomery

Major John Andre       Paul Revere                             Mary Hayes

Benedict Arnold          Betsy Ross           Comte de Rochambeau

Crispus Attucks            Deborah Sampson                   James Otis

John Burgoyne            Benjamin Tallmadge              Phyllis Wheatley

Charles Cornwallis      Benjamin Franklin                   Nathaniel Green

You should find the following information about your person:

1.       Where and when was he/she born?

2.      What kind of job did he/she have?

3.      Why was he/she important to the American Revolution?

4.      What were three important events in this person’s life?

5.      What makes this person special or interesting?

6.      What are three adjectives you would use to describe this person?

7.      What do you think it means to be a hero?  Was your person a hero?  Why or why not? 

You can also use images in your blog to help bring your person to life.

You will be writing your blog as if you are the person you are writing about, leaving the name of the person out of your writing.  I will show you an example in class.  Each blog will be titled “Who Am I?” and then we will comment on each other’s blogs with a guess about who the blog is about.  Finally, the person who wrote the blog will reply with the correct answer. 

Grades will be based on a scale of 4 to 1, with 4 being best:

Research

·         Following directions in the computer lab

·         Finding the required information about your person

Project

·         Completeness

·         Accuracy of information

·         Proofreading/spelling/correct grammar

Be creative!  Your task is to learn about your person and to bring the person to life for the class in your blog entry.  You’re teaching the class about your person!