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Lesson One
Your Place in History When we chart history, we often use a timeline. A timeline helps us see when events happened in a person’s life. You can create a timeline for your ancestors, but you probably don’t know much about them yet. Perhaps you’d better start with yourself. CREATE a timeline for your own life. It should include major events, dates, and places. Major events might include learning to ride a bike, moving to another state or house, the birth of a brother or a favorite Holiday. Use the following links to find out any exciting historical events that took place on your birth date or any other date in your life. Write the ones down that you find interesting and add to your timeline. Using the Timeline Generator add these events to your timeline. SAVE your timeline to your Portfolio. DISCUSS your timeline with your friends or classmates. Find out about the interesting events in their lives and share some of your memories with them. Questions to Consider 1. What types of events did you consider important and why? 2. What made you choose the events that you included in your timeline? 3. Were there any events that changed your life and how you lived it? 4. What do you think was the single most important event and why? Self-Assessment Use the Timeline Rubric to Assess the Timeline your created. In your word processor CREATE a document entitled: Lesson One Self-Assessment. Type in your assessment based on the Rubric and SAVE to your portfolio. What I Have I learned? You have learned that there have been many important events in your lifetime that have affected who you are and how you live. Some of these events have been life changing while others have helped to create the person you are. In Lesson 2 you will create a better picture of who you are by writing your own autobiography. To Lesson 2
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