THE PERSONALITIES OF THE REVOLUTION PROJECT.

BACKGROUND: For this assignment, you will be researching one of the personalities that became famous during the Revolutionary War. For fun, we will be creating this as a huge TIMELINE of the events of the Revolutionary War. Here is the access link for this project. If you are asked to "Sign Up", please do with your school GOOGLE login:

Personalities of the Revolution Timeline

SOURCE FOR RESEARCH:  Students will need to use online materials to locate materials that support their information for their project.

WHICH YEARS AND EVENTS ARE WE RESPONSIBLE FOR?: See the table below.

THE TABLE OF ASSIGNMENT:

PERSONALITY TO BE RESEARCHED STUDENT
Benedict Arnold Hayden
Abigail Adams Nicole
George Washington Krystal
John Hancock Matt
Marquis de Lafayette Jayla
Alexander Hamilton Kaylee
Lighthorse Harry Lee Ashlee
Anthony Wayne Jacob
Nathan Hale Carson
Thomas Paine Sam
Nathanael Greene Keegan
Baron Friedrich von Steuben Brandon
Patrick Henry Stephen
Thomas Jefferson Michael
Skenandoah  Charlie
Benjamin Franklin Sylvia
Martha Washington Dylan
John Adams Adamaris
Samuel Adams Kellsey
John Paul Jones Gabby
Ethan Allen Aden
Salem Poor Layla
General Charles Cornwallis Claire
William Howe Jarrod
King George III Tanner
General John Burgoyne Landon
Peter Salem Alejandra

THE ASSIGNMENT:   You will be working by yourself. For this project, we will eventually be creating an "ALL CLASS" timeline, in which all of the events of all of our personalities is listed on one huge document. For now, however, you are only responsible for COMPLETING THIS GOOGLE DOC that includes the following information about your personality (please make a copy of this document in your school Google Drive and SHARE it back with me for grading.

MAKE SURE THAT FOR ALL OF YOUR EVENTS, YOU HAVE AN IMAGE!

Make sure that ALL OF YOUR EVENTS ARE DATED BETWEEN 1763 and 1787!

  • An entry dated on the BIRTHDAY OF YOUR PERSONALITY in 1763 in which you describe what their life is like in 1763. Where are they living? what are they doing? how are they involved in the COLONIES? THINK OF THIS AS AN "EARLY YEARS" ENTRY. TELL ABOUT WHAT YOUR PERSONALITY DID BEFORE THE WAR. Please include at least one PORTRAIT or IMAGE of your personality from this time period.
  • Descriptions of at least THREE EVENTS (each with an IMAGE) that your personality participated in during the REVOLUTIONARY WAR (we are not interested yet in the events that might have occured AFTER the war.)
  • Descriptions of at least one FAILURE (with an IMAGE) of your personality during the time of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR. This might take some research. Do the research! Not everyone was 100 percent successful all the time, relate story about when they were NOT successful!
  • Description of at least one SUCCESS OR VICTORY (with an IMAGE) of your personality during the time of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR.
  • PLEASE DESCRIBE A SAYING, QUOTE OR EPITAPH THAT IS ATTRIBUTED TO YOUR PERSONALITY ON ONE OF YOUR EVENT ENTRIES!

HOW TO PROCEED: You will need to due some fairly extensive research on your personality to find the information above. DO NOT CHEAP OUT HERE, give GOOD INFORMATION! Record the following for each item above:

  1. An image, painting, etc. of the event above.
  2. A PARAGRAPH description of the event.
  3. The exact DATE, including MONTH, DATE and YEAR for your event, as closely as you can get it.
  4. A TITLE for your event- 2-4 words that describe what happened during your event. This should read as follows: "GEORGE WASHINGTON- BECOMES FATHER OF HIS COUNTRY."

USING YOUR INFORMATION:   Mr. B. has created a HUGE TIMELINE, which is linked at the top of this page. Please create events on the timeline and fill in all of the information and images that you have gathered in the form above. PLEASE MAKE SURE THAT YOU PUT YOUR PERSONALITY'S NAME AS THE FIRST ELEMENT OF YOUR TITLE, SO THAT WE CAN IDENTIFY YOUR PERSON! Please ONLY create the SIX EVENTS LISTED ABOVE, there is a 200 event limit to this free timeline!

GRADING:  This assignment will be worth a total of 50 points per person. PLEASE FORWARD YOUR BACKGROUND RESEARCH INFORMATION TO MR. B. IN THE FORM OF A GOOGLE DOC FOR GRADING. I CANNOT GRADE FROM A 200 EVENT TIMELINE, IT WOULD BE IMPOSSIBLE.