Wedneday will be a Notecard check
Have at least ½ done!
What should be on the cards?
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On the Front: Title—(General description of
what is on the card)
Detailed Information
On the Back: You need the source where the
information is from:
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Source Number
Title
Author
Publisher or Web address
Copyright or Last Updated for website
Page number
Once you have cited a source, you may use it’s
number on the back of any additional cards you
make with that same source.
Example Card—
(1st time source used)
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Birthdate & Location
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Amelia Earhart was born
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on July 24, 1897, in
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Atchison, Kansas
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First Last Name (per)
Example Card—
(When cited source is used for another card.)
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Amelia
Earhart is Famous for:
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On May 15, 1923, Amelia
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Earhart became the 16th
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woman to be issued a pilot's
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license. She had several
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notable flights, first woman to
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fly across the Atlantic in
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1928, and the first person to
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have flown both oceans. In
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1937, she mysteriously
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disappeared while trying to
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circumnavigate the globe
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from the equator.
First Last Name (per)
What cards we have to have?
1. Birth Date and Location
2. Family Life (ie: mother, father and siblings)
3. Childhood memory
4. Education
5. Occupations
6. Adult Life (ie: married, children?)
7. Adult Memory
8. Proudest Moment
9. Struggles and how you overcame(2 card min.)
10. Struggles and how you overcame
What cards we have to have?
Continued…
11. What famous for
12. Accomplishments/Contributions
13. Notable things they did
14. Date of Death/reason/location (or
they are and what they are doing
currently if still alive)
15. Quote 1 & page #
16. Quote 2 & page #
17. Interesting Fact #1
18. Interesting Fact #2
19. Interesting Fact #3
where
What cards we have to have?
Continued…
20) Three
(3) words that best describe the
person and why?
21) List Ten (10) events in the person’s life
that they were apart of.
22) List Five (5) Events that occurred while
the person was alive but they were not
necessarily apart of (ie: Civil War,
Shuttle launch, light bulb invented…etc.)
Additional Cards you may wish
to add……
20) List
items the names of items you would
associate with this person (ie: lightbulbs,
Constitution, favorite horse, surfboard,
etc….)
21) Card that describes or has a few
pictures of the typical clothing that
people wore during your person’s
lifetime.
Sources
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Must have at least 4 different Sources.
Cannot have more than Two (2) of the same
type of source. Example of combinations:
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2 Books, Website, different website
Book, 2 Websites, Magazine
Book, Different Book, 2 Websites
Book, Encyclopedia article, 2 Websites
Book, Biographical Video (or online video), 2 Websites