Wax Museum Project

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Wax Museum Project

• Mrs. Mandys Class

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Research

• Choose a person to research
• Complete the graphic organizer
• Create a Tri-Fold presentation
• Create a monologue and memorize it

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Who will I pick?

• Harriet Tubman
• Martha Washington
• Eleanor Roosevelt
• Peter Minuit
• Peter Stuyvesant
• Teddy Roosevelt
• Abraham Lincoln
• Sojourner Truth
• Susan B. Anthony
• Sarah Gates
• Franklin Roosevelt

• Patrick Henry
• Betsy Ross
• Paul Revere
• Sybil Ludington
• George Washington
• Ethan Allen
• John Jay
• Thomas Jefferson
• Thomas Paine
• Molly Pitcher
• John Hancock
• John Adams
• Benjamin Franklin
• Deborah Sampson
• Alexander Hamilton
• Abigail Adams
• Lilian Wald
• Elizabeth Blackwell

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What will I do for the graphic organizer?
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What will be on the tri-fold?

• Persons name and your name
• Birth date and place and date of passing
• What is your person best known for?
• How did your person help others and contribute to
  society?
• Family background information
• Education and job/career information
• Major life events
• Other interesting information
• Pictures of your person

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What is a monologue?

• Use index cards to organize your presentation
• You will be talking as if you were the person you
  researched
• Try to memorize the information by practicing the
  reading

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The Fun Part

• Dress up like your person
• You can wear clothes from that era
• You can wear a wig or hat
• Dressing up is optional but encouraged
• Use pictures from your research to help you pick
  out a costume