Give God Your Very Best Everyday.
Each Month we will cover a famous person in history. Students will create a History binder.
Famous people
September: Marco Polo
October: Joan of Arc
November: Leonardo da Vinci
December: Galileo
January: Benjamin Franklin
February: Beethoven
March: Harriet Tubman
April: Thomas Edison
May: Marie Curie
Each month the first 3 classes will look like this.
*The first class we will view a 30 min video and spend the rest of the class mapping character traits and human experiences. We will discuss cause and effect of these traits and experiences.
** homework will be to work on a digging deeper assignment (found on individual famous
person pages). Due week 3 of month.
*Second Class we will do map work locating where the person lived or traveled to. We will Timeline important events in their life and what was going on in the world during the time of their life. Photo station.
**homework will be to fill out a front page of a news paper for that time in history including
information of the famous person of the month.
*Third class will include Presentations of digging deeper assignments and hands on projects. We will fill out a scrapbook page/journal page listing learned facts about the famous person. We will share time period foods at lunch.
**Finish scrapbook page
additional weeks in a month will be used to learn about art and work on art, hands on activities.
Famous Works of Art
Night Hawk, Edward Hopper
American Gothic, Grant Woods
Le Penseur(Thinker), Auguste Rodin
V-J Day in Time Square, Alfred Einsenstadts
Balloon Dog, Jeff Koons
Crying Girl, Rox Lichtenstein
Lapetite Danseuse de Quatorze, Edgar Degas
Venus Italica, Antonio Canova
Sierra Nevada, Albert Bierstadt
Shad Fishing at Glouster, Delware River, Tomas Eakins
"Love" sculpture, Robert Iandina
?, Jackson Pollack
?, Alexander Calder
Easter Island Rapu Nui
Through out the year we will talk about these famous pieces of art featured in the movie and learn about the artist and time period. Each student will work to create a reproduction of the piece for the end of year NATM2 party. I will provided art instructional tips to help students grow in their knowledge and ability.
Dance
Jitter bug
Students will learn the Jitterbug which is danced in the movie.
Icons of pop culture
Archie Bunker's easy chair
Dorothy's Red Slipper
Muhammad Ali's boxing gloves
We will discuss what an Icon is and create a list of Icons from the students lives.
Famous people in the NATM2 (select one to research this year)
Amelia Earhart
Ivan the Terrible
Napoleon Bonaparte
Cowboy Jedediah
Teddy Roosevelt
Al Capone
Attilia the Hun
George Armstrong Cluster
Christopher Columbus
Albert Einstein
Sacagawea
Abraham Lincoln
Orville Wright
Wilbur Wright
Octavius Caesar
Neil Armstrong
Darth Vader-created by George Lucas
Tuskgee Airman
Neanderthals
Able space monkey
Egyptian Pharaoh Kahmunrah (fictional) who was he based on?
Each student will select and work on researching a famous person from the movie. We will hold a movie party at the end of the year where students will come in character of the person they selected. We will have a "talk show" following the movie where students will tell about who they came as and about the person's life.
