Transcript A Living Wax Museum Breathing Life Into Biographies

A Living Wax Museum
Breathing Life Into Biographies
INTRODUCTION
TASK
PROCESS
EVALUATION
CONCLUSION
CREDITS
This Web Quest lesson is designed to engage students to research
notable African-American Historical Figures and to present them in an
oral presentation. Students are to pretend they are the historical figure,
so as to represent him or her in a "Wax Museum" gallery walk.
INTRODUCTION
You will participate in a “Living
Wax Museum” to represent a
famous person in African
American History. You will dress
up as the person and give a short
speech about their life and
important contributions.
THE TASK
1. You will research a famous African
American to create a report and a short
speech about his or her life.
2. You will dress and speak as if you were
that person.
3. When you “come to life” you will tell about
that person’s life including birth, early
childhood, major accomplishments,
interesting facts about their life and death.
PROCESS
 You will be assigned a famous African American
to research from the suggested list.
 Record information about your famous person in
your graphic organizer.
 Write out your report be sure to include
resources.
 Prepare a short speech and practice it enough
times to almost memorize the lines.
 Find or create interesting props and/or articles
of clothing to bring your famous figure to life.
 Use invitations to invite people to your museum.
 Click on this LINK to begin your research.
EVALUATION
Student Home
Packet
CONCLUSION
Good work on your “Living wax museum”
of a famous African American. You should
now know more about famous African
Americans and their contributions to the
world. These were just a few, you can
continue to investigate other important
African Americans in history.
Maybe one day someone will study you!
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