The Original Thirteen Colonies and the Lost Colony of Roanoke
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What are your responsibilities as an historian, you ask? People want to know about specific colonies. You need to:
______Investigate what life might have been like for the colonists. Visit You Be the Historian, Meet the Daggets, a colonial family and Colonial Kids. Check out other sites or resources. (Be sure to use Boolean logic.) Due _____
______Choose a colony from the New England, Middle, or Southern Colonies to study more in-depth. Due _____
______Use your print resources as well as our online links and encyclopedias to locate information about your colony. What would be important to know? Ideas: What about the founders? What year was the colony founded? Why was it started? What were some important happenings? Who was there?. Read these resources.
______Create an outline using Inspiration to organize your questions/ main ideas/notes. Due ______
______Develop a report based on your notes. Use a word processor to write first and subsequent drafts. Include a bibliography/resource list. Edit using spellchecker, grammar checker, and thesaurus. Conference with a peer, then teacher. Due______
_____Create a two row, two column table for a webpage using FrontPage. You will insert the scanned image, self portrait, and final draft into the table, arranging and resizing images as necessary. Due______
_____Insert the report into the table, using two cells at the top for the painting and title. Insert the body of the report in a merged cell in the second row. Due______
_____Using watercolors, create a painting that depicts some aspect of your colony report. Use the scanner to save the image in your file. Insert this image into one of the cells in the top row. Due______
_____Create a self-portrait using HyperStudio. Save this image in your network space. Insert this image at the bottom of your final draft next to : by (first name), Writer and Artist. Due______
_____Take the Colonial Quiz and play some of the review games found in Resources.
_____Final project is completed. Due______
_____Share date: ________________
We will go over all aspects of the requirements in class so that you will know how to use Boolean logic, insert pictures, use HyperStudio, create tables, scan images, edit, and more! You will be fully prepared to complete all requirements.
Colonial Historian, people will learn so much from your efforts!
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