Mrs. Knapp US History

Scrapbook and Journal Entry Project

About Colonial America

1.  Pretend you are an 18th Century English journalist who has spent a year living in and learning about colonial America. While in America, you kept a journal to record your thoughts and impressions of the place, its people, and their cultures. You want your journal to be published so that the people of England will better understand what life is like in colonial America.

2.  You will use your notes from Student Handout 1.3A to write a journal with these guidelines:

A.  Your journal should be written for an audience that has never been to America and knows little about life in the American colonies.

B.  The intention of the journal is to inform people living in England about American colonial life.

C.  Your writing should be formatted like a scrapbook, but include a journal entry on each page. The journal entry should be dated and should describe some aspect of colonial life. Be creative and imaginative in explaining how you learned about each of these aspects during your adventurous year in America. Some of your experiences might have been humorous, others sad, and others strange.

D.  Include at least four items that could be used to visually understand your entry. Remember that there were no cameras in the 18th century, so everything needs to be hand drawn or you may use clip art. You may also include other objects, such a fabric for the quilting bees.

E.  Your scrapbook should address at least 5 aspects of colonial society. You are free to determine which ones you want to include in your journal.

F.  You will have a total of five pages and a cover page.

G.  Your project should have a cover that includes your name and block.

H.  Each journal entry should be at least 1 page in length.

I.  Your journal entry should be typed single spaced (for 1 page) or double spaced (for 2 pages).

J.  Check your grammar and spelling.

Standards for Evaluating Project

(20/10=Strong, 16/8=Moderately Strong, 12/6=Average, 8/4=Moderately Weak, 4/2=Weak)

1.  Project fulfills all requirements. (10 points)

2.  Project is free of grammatical, punctuation, and spelling errors. (10 points)

3.  Project is logically and clearly organized. (10 points)

4.  Use of creativity and imagination. (20 points)

5.  Each aspect of life is fully explained with relevant and factual information. (50 points – 10 points per page)

6.  Overall visuals for each page. (40 points – 8 points per page)

7.  Grade = total points/140