UNIT 3 PROJECT PART 3: Famous Historical Figure

Work with your same partner(s) from project parts 1 &2.


PART A:

Choose a famous person who died more than a hundred years ago. Write a paragraph describing that person's life and acheivements.

A list of famous people can be found at the bottom of this post.


In Titan Pad, answer these (8) questions:

1) Who was the person (what are some names for the person)?
2) What is the person most famous for doing?
3) Why is the person interesting to you?
4) When was this person born?
5) Where was this person from?
6) What are the person’s achievements?
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7) Why do you think this person’s achievements are important?
8) What can society learn from this person?

PART B:

In Padlet, find 3-4 pictures that show the person’s key achievements.

Write captions for the picture describing the achievement and when and where it happened.

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Examples of famous people:

Great conquerors, rulers, explorers, scientists, mathematicians, and inventors . . .

Rulers and Conquerors:

Alexander the Great— born in what is now Greece
Ghengis Khan — born in what is now Mongolia
Timur — born in what is now Uzbekistan
Julius Caesar — born in what is now Italy
Hannibal Barka — born in what is now Tunisia
Napoleon Bonaparte — born in what is now France
Mahmud of Ghazni — born in what is now Afghanistan
Attila the Hun — born in what is now Hungary
Cyrus The Great— born in what is now Iran
Elizabeth 1 — born in what is now United Kingdom
Peter the Great —  born in what is now Russia

Explorers:

Marco Polo — born in what is now Italy
Ahmad ibn Mājid — born in what is now United Arab Emirates
Juan Ponce de Leon — born in what is now Spain
Leif Eriksson — born in what is now Iceland


Scientists, Mathematicians, and Inventors:


Ben Franklin — born in what is now United States
Louis Braille — born in what is now France
Hypatia — born in what is now Egypt 
Thomas Edison — born in what is now United States
Mary Anning — born in what is now United Kingdom
Ibn al-Haitham — born in what is now Iraq
Muḥammad al-Khwārizmī— born in what is now Kazakhstan
Ibn Sina — born in what is now Uzbekistan
Abbas ibn Firnas —  born in what is now Spain
Leonardo da Vinci — born in what is now Italy
Isaac Newton — born in what is now United Kingdom
Galileo Galilei — born in what is now Italy
Blaise Pascal — born in what is now France
Kirkpatrick Macmillan — born in what is now United Kingdom
Ferdinand Verbiest — born in what is now Belgium