Design three colony trading cards based on important people from your assigned colonial group.
Format -
Front - Colony Name at top, Picture of person or image related to that person's actions, Name of person
Back - Years alive at top, three important contributions in list form, your name at bottom.
All of the information must cover the card space evenly.
Exceptional artwork can be done in pencil. All other elements of the card must be sharpied. Color does not hurt.
Each person must design three colony trading cards:
1. No two cards can be about the same historical person from the entire group.
2. Each person must design two cards for famous male figures, and one female figure.
3. Each person must have acted in an important manner before the American Revolutionary period before 1770. They had to have acted around the formation of the colony, or lived during the colonial period.
4. After each group has resolved that every member has different cards, fill out this survey to report your unique cards. If you cannot find a person for a card, type in NA (not available).
5. Ultimately, finding a female historical figure will be a challenge needing some time at home tonight. Since colonial history was typically focused on the accomplishments of men, leaving out women in most cases, students should look for the powerful women behind the men in power. Often this class of women were afforded the opportunity to pursue important life accomplishments that made them much more significant than the wife or mother of great men that they were often portrayed in their day.
6. We are not looking for necessarily the well off or the powerful either. Any historical figure that left a journal or important letters are as important to the historical record as those that were famous or powerful in their own era. Likewise, records of women that can be held up as examples of an historic sample of how people lived is also extremely important historically.
Some suggested searches - add a colony name to:
Colonial wives
Colonial mothers
colonial families
colonial diaries
colonial households
colonial letters
colonial poetry
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