1800Fame

When we brainstormed ways people communicate at the beginning of the year, lots of you listed social media: Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and other websites that let people share ideas.

For our next project, you'll be creating a profile page for someone in the 1800s. You'll find basic information (birth, schools, marriages, dates, jobs) as well as photos. After you make your profile page, your historical people will be able to "friend" others, depending on where they lived, worked, or the kinds of the jobs they did.



Examples Dr. Seuss Jackie Kennedy Onassis


 * Your task today: **
 * Spend some time looking at these categories of people, and reading a bit about them. Keep track of your top choices by jotting them on a post-it note.
 * Writers, Artists, and Musicians
 * Westward Expansion
 * Science, Inventing, and Making Money
 * Presidents and Politics
 * The Gold Rush
 * The Civil War
 * Changing Times: Social Activists
 * Then, fill out this form with your first name, your teacher's name, and the two categories in which you are most interested. You will be researching a person from one of those categories.