Due Monday 11/23
We will be set up in the cafeteria for other students at Symsonia Elementary to Meet a Historical Person!
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:
- Mound builders
- Aztec or Inca person
- Olmec
- Eastern Woodland Native American (Tribes: Mohawk, Iroquois, Powhatan, Timucuan, Chickasaw, Creek, Shawnee…)
- Plains Native American (Sioux, Dakota, Blackfoot, Comanche, Osage, Cheyenne, Crow)
- Southwest Native American (Hopi, Apache, Navajo, Zuni)
- Northwest Native American (Chinook, Nez Perce, Timook)
- Explorer (Christopher Columbus, Ferdinand Magellan, John Cabot, Hernando Cortes, Francisco Pizarro)
- Missionary (Spanish)
- 1st settler (Roanoke Walter Raleigh, John White, Jamestown,John Smith, Pocahontas, Plymouth: William Bradford, Sanoset, Tisquantum)
- Pilgrim/Puritan
- Settler in the New England Colonies (Puritan Anne Hutchinson)
- Settler in the Middle Colonies (Quaker, William Penn, Merchant,)
- Settler in the Southern Colonies (Calvert, Oglethorp, farmer, plantation owner)
