Person Speech

1 Minute Speech on a Person

NAME: _____________________________________

What to include

• Why were they here, why did they come here, or why did they live in the area they did?

• What are some things they did? (Job? or everyday life skills)

Pick One to do-

-Dress up and explain your clothes

-Make a house (ie tepee, log cabin, boat) and explain the natural resources you used

-Make or bring an artifact or tools for your person (ie. Bow and arrow, compass, bible, map, Mayflower Compact, knitting needle, corn seeds… ) Explain why this was important to your person

People:

1. Mound builders
2. Aztec or Inca person
3. Olmec
4. Eastern Woodland Native American (Tribes: Mohawk, Iroquois, Powhatan, Timucuan, Chickasaw, Creek, Shawnee…)
5. Plains Native American (Sioux, Dakota, Blackfoot, Comanche, Osage, Cheyenne, Crow)
6. Southwest Native American (Hopi, Apache, Navajo, Zuni)
7. Northwest Native American (Chinook, Nez Perce, Timook)
8. Explorer (Christopher Columbus, Ferdinand Magellan, John Cabot, Hernando Cortes, Francisco Pizarro)
9. Missionary (Spanish)
10. 1st settler (Roanoke Walter Raleigh, John White, Jamestown,John Smith, Pocahontas, Plymouth: William Bradford, Sanoset, Tisquantum)
11. Pilgrim/Puritan
12. Settler in the New England Colonies (Puritan: Anne Hutchinson)
13. Settler in the Middle Colonies (Quaker, William Penn, Merchant,)  
14. Settler in the Southern Colonies (Calvert, Oglethorpe,  farmer, plantation owner)

LINKS TO FIND INFORMATION:

What I would wear