ACDV 50 “AMERICAN VOICES” ASSIGNMENT

FINAL PROJECT
Your final biography/reading project will include:

1. At least one article about your selected person from Internet research.
Find copy and write a summary of the article.

2. At least one article about your selected person from a BC library. This could
be from a book or from the Gale literature site.

3. A one to two page report that includes the most important points in your
person’s life and the impact your person made on his or her
society.
The report should be typed, double space, 12 font.

Extra credit points may be earned only when the above requirements are met.

Extra credit for additional research articles:

1. Find, copy, and write a summary of another article (up to two extra
credit articles. At least one of the additional articles should be about the
time period during which your subject lived).

2. An original source document written by your subject.

PROJECT ASSESSMENT (Total points 135)

1. Part 1 (Internet) 20 points _______

2. Part 2 (Reference book) 20 points _______

3. Biographical Report 25 points _______

Total required points 65 points

Extra credit points may be earned when all requirements are met.

1. Extra credit articles (maximum of 2, 20 points each) _______

2. Original Source Document (20 points) _______

Total Points received _______

THIS PROJECT IS DUE ON ______________________

Possible subjects:

THE REVOLUTION
Thomas Paine
John Adams
Abigail Adams
Benjamin Banneker

REFORM MOVEMENTS: WOMEN

Margaret Fuller
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Susan B. Anthony
Frances E. Watkins Harper
Phillis Wheatley
Carrie Chapman Catt
Alice Stone Blackwell
Lucretia Mott
Mary Church Terrell
Others

REFORM MOVEMENTS: SLAVERY

Harriet Jacobs
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Angelina Grimke Weld