Scrapbook/Journal

Thursday 3/23/2017: Red Mountain Field Trip

Thursday 4/14/2017: Speech Memorized by this date

Friday 4/21/2017: Scrapbook/Journal Due (Res

Tuesday 4/25/2017: Wax Museum Dress Rehearsal

Wednesday 4/26/2017: Wax Museum for Parents 9:30-10:30

*Check our calendar for other important dates.

Important Person in Alabama History Scrapbook/Journal

Due Date: Friday, April 21st Plenty of time will be given

at school to research, the journal will be completed at home.

A scrapbook is a fun way to remember important things that happened. Your job is to first research your person by finding the information you need for each page and then make a scrapbook of the person you are researching using the information you found. It should look like it was actually made by your person, depending on when your person lived, you could make it look old! You can use strips of leather to bind it, with the help of an adult burn the edges of each page, use a wet tea bag to stain the pages, roll the page up with a rubber band and put in the dryer for a few minutes. You can google other ideas.  Remember I showed you some examples of scrapbooks in class. Please let me know if you have questions!

Color, cut, paste, create, draw, type- be creative when making a page! Remember all of the author’s crafts we have learned in writing: strong leads and endings, transition words, adjectives and adverbs, similes and metaphors, repetition, etc.

The scrapbook must include the following items:

1. A cover which includes:
• Title of the scrapbook
• Picture of your person
• Your name
2. A title for each page.  Except for page 3, each page should be written in paragraph format.

    Page 1- (2 paragraphs) 1st paragraph-Introduction (3-5 sentences) 2nd paragraph-Where and when were you born? Did you have any brothers and sisters? What did your parents do? In this section talk about how your life began, what were you like as a child ( 5-7 sentences)

   Page 2- (1 paragraph) What would people admire you for? What questions might people from today ask you?  What else would people want to know about you? (5-7 sentences)

   Page 3- A picture of your person-a caption about your picture and a famous quote from your person.

   Page 4-  (1 paragraph) This section should include information about your life as a grown up. Did you go to college? Did you get married? Where did you live? Did you have any kids? Tell about your life, things you did (5-7 sentences)

   Page 5- (1 paragraph) Where and when did you die? Why did you die? Do you have a memorial, where is it located? (3-5 sentences) If you are still alive: Where do you live now, what do you do now? (3-5 sentences)

     Page 6- (1 paragraph) Why are you famous? What have you contributed? Did you invent anything? In this section you should talk about why you are famous, what did you do to make yourself famous and how you were important to the development of our state and and/or our country. This will be the bulk of your facts about your character. (7-10 sentences)

• All work in your scrapbook must be done by YOU! Parents may assist with ideas,  and proofread for mistakes, but they may not write it for you, type it for you, or do the work/research for you.