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Enrichment
3: Historic Residents of Schaumburg Township |
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Illinois Learning Standard: State Goal 16A: Apply the skills of
historical analysis and interpretation. |
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Multiple
Intelligences:
Linguistic, Interpersonal, Intrapersonal
and Spatial |
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Thinking Skill:
Application |
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Outcome: Family Tree Poster (Visual) |
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Objective:
Organize the personal history of a historic resident and create
a family tree poster. |
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Activities:
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- Form cooperative groups and assign one historic person to each group.
- Direct groups to read biographical sketches from website.
- Encourage groups to gather additional information from other sources:
-interviews
-newspaper articles
- Introduce and distribute the Biography Box Rubric.
- Direct each student to create a Biography Box.
- Direct students to write in their Schaumburg Township Double Entry
Journal.
*Groups may choose a different resident. Information is available at the Schaumburg
Township District Library in the Schaumburg Historical Society's Vertical File. |
Schaumburg
Township Double Entry Journal Prompt:
How are you alike? How are you different?
How would your life be different if you
had been in that family?
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Supplies:
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Biography Box Rubric
Biographical Sketches Web Page
Schaumburg Township Double Entry Journal
Boxes to create Biography Boxes
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Student
Groupings: Cooperative groups
Individual work |
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