Historical Identity Assignment



Historical Identity Assignment – Mr. Bonning’s Class

Your assignment is to assume the role of someone we have studied in history this year. You will take on that person’s identity for one entire day at school. You will dress like your historical figure, act, and talk like them, in fact everything you do that day will be “in character” as that person. The object of this assignment is to pick someone we have studied in class that you found interesting and then research everything you can about that person. You must find out that persons accomplishments, likes, dislikes, political ideas, ambitions, favorite foods, style of dress, personal skills, education, habits, quirks, language skills, and anything else that would help you to become them. Then the week before your final exam you will come to school as this figure for one day. In class you will answer questions posed by your classmates and Mr. Bonning about your person. You will be graded on how accurately you can answer these questions, along with how well you stay in character. Additionally you will be graded on costume, and how well you stay in character throughout the day.

Points of interest:

• Assignment will be worth 100 points – see check sheet.

• The reason we are doing this (other than for a grade) is to get you to learn more about one person in history that you find interesting then you have ever learned before… don’t take this assignment lightly!

• This is the best assignment of the year to “wow” me.

• All historical figures picked must be cleared by Mr. Bonning, only one historical figure per student on a first come first serve basis (no substitutions, exchanges or refunds).

• Finally pick someone you are passionate to learn about and have fun!

Check Sheet

|Pick your person and tell Mr. Bonning who it is. |5 points |

|Research your person in the textbook; write 10 lines about your person. |10 points |

|Research your person from another source, encyclopedia, internet, and take notes. |10 points |

|Write another 10 lines about your person. |10 points |

|Fill out worksheet on your person. |15 points |

|Present to class (25 for costume, 25 for presentation) |50 points |

|Add up your total |100 points possible |

Here is a list of names of people you may find interesting and want to do your project on:

Chapter 5

Julius Caesar Peter Paul

Jesus Constantine Attila the Hun

Chapter 7

Charlemagne Medieval Knight Benedict

St. Francis of Assisi Geoffrey Chaucer

Chapter 8

William the Conqueror King John Henry IV

Thomas Aquinas Dante Joan of Arc

Chapter 9

Justinian Ivan the Great Ivan the Terrible

Chapter 10

Muhammad Babur Akbar

Chapter 11

Mansa Musa

Chapter 12

Genghis Khan Kublai Khan Marco Polo

Zheng He Samurai Warrior

Chapter 13

Leonardo Di Vinci Michelangelo Raphael

Machiavelli Shakespeare Martin Luther

John Calvin Henry VIII Mary Tudor

Nicolaus Copernicus Isaac Newton Galileo

Chapter 14

Vasco da Gama Christopher Columbus

Chapter 15

Hernan Cortes Moctezuma Francisco Pizzaro

Olaudah Equiano

Chapter 16

Don Quixote Louis XIV Peter the Great

Catherine the Great

Here is a list of names of people you may find interesting and want to do your project on:

Chapter 17

Thomas Hobbes John Locke George Washington

Thomas Jefferson Ben Franklin

Chapter 18

Marie Antoinette Napoleon

Chapter 19

Eli Whitney Karl Marx

Chapter 22

Otto von Bismark

Chapter 24

King Leopold II Dr. David Livingston Henry Stanley

Muhammad Ali

Chapter 26

Gregory Rasputin

Chapter 27

Gandhi

Chapter 28

Flapper Franklin D. Roosevelt Benito Mussolini

Joseph Stalin

Chapter 29

Erwin Rommel Rosie the Riveter Dwight Eisenhower

Douglass MacArthur Harry Truman

Chapter 30

Ronald Reagan John F. Kennedy Fidel Castro

Nakita Khrushcev Bert the Turtle Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Ho Chi Minh

Chapter 32

Nelson Mandela

Chapter 33

Mother Teresa

Historical Identity Project Worksheet Name:____________________

|Who is your project on? |

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|What did they do? What are they most known for? What have they done that we would remember them for? |

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|Where were they born or where did they live? Describe anything interesting or unique about the place or places they lived. |

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|What time period did they live in (was it during the Civil War, during the Roman Empire)? What other interesting events are taking|

|place during this time period? (Example, pyramids, World War II, etc.) |

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|What other significant people knew or interacted with your person? Did they have other famous friends, or colleagues? |

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|How did your person impact the world or the country they lived in? What is the modern significance of this person? What can we |

|learn from this person? |

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|Other significant information or interesting facts about your person. |

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