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Black History Month Mini-quest
South Carolina Standards Addressed:
4-6.2 Use print sources such as books, magazines, charts, graphs, diagrams, dictionaries, encyclopedias, atlases, thesauri, newspapers, and almanacs and nonprint media to access information.
4-6.5 Create a list of sources that contains information (including the author and title of a publication) necessary to properly credit and document the work of others.
4-6.6
Use the Internet
with the aid of a teacher.
Instructions: You are about to complete a Webquest in which you learn a little about famous African Americans. Using the Websites listed below and books from the Media Center, answer the following questions on the worksheet your instructor provided. Please be certain to list your source for each person.
1) Where and when was this person born? If they are deceased, when did they die?
2) Why is this person important? For what is he or she known?
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Famous Freedom Fighters |
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| Martin Luther King Jr. | ||
| Rosa Parks | ||
| Harriet Tubman | ||
| Frederick Douglass | ||
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Political Figures |
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| Barack Obama | ||
| Malcolm X | ||
| Colin Powell | ||
| Athletes | ||
| Tiger Woods | ||
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Shaquille O'Neal |
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| Magic Johnson | ||
| Michael Jordan | ||
| Famous Writers | ||
| Langston Hughes | ||
| Alex Haley | ||
| Toni Morrison | ||
| Artists/ Entertainers | ||
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Louis Armstrong |
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| Duke Ellington | ||
| Sammy Davis Jr. | ||
| Oprah Winfrey | ||
| Denzel Washington | ||
| Ray Charles | ||
| Bill Cosby |
Try some of these sites to get a good start:
(Make sure to use WHES and the number of the computer you are at. Your login is the same. If you are working on this at home, work with your parents to create a new account.)
http://www.biography.com/blackhistory/index.jsp