ABC HISTORY BOOK PROJECT
DUE DATE: FRIDAY, May 23rd
THIS WILL BE WORTH A TEST GRADE!
Part 1. ABC HISTORY BOOK: Create a book from A – Z with information and pictures about our 4th grade
History information!
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Draw or cut out pictures to represent the people, places or events we have learned this year. I have provided a
list with suggestions listed in alphabetical order. Choose one for each letter…don’t repeat!
Have a cover page with your name and title for your book.
Have a heading for each page A – Z…You may use the first or last name to go with the letter
Write a caption on each page that will describe the event in detail. They should be 2 – 3 sentences each!
Color the pictures, check your spelling and write neatly.
You may type your captions and headings if you wish!
Your ABC book needs to be neat and colorful and as realistic as you can make it.
Part 2. Here are some suggestions – Choose One From Each Letter…Don’t Repeat!
A – Abraham Lincoln, Appomattox Courthouse, Atlantic Ocean, Alexandria, Appalachian Mountains, Allegheny
Mountains, Appalachian Plateau, Apples, Algonquian, Archaeologists, Artifacts, Arrival of Africans, Arrival of
Women, American Indians, American Revolutionary War, Abolitionist, Agricultural, Arthur Ashe, A. Linwood
Holton, Jr., Army of the Northern VA
B - Border States, Blue Ridge Region, Blue Ridge Mountains, Beef, Burgesses, Barter, British Parliament, Battle of
Great Bridge, Battle of Bull Run, Battle of Manassas, Brown vs. Broad of Education, Bay, Bordering
C – Coastal Plain, Chesapeake Bay, Cumberland Gap, Coal Mining, Coal, Cherokee, Chickahominy, Current Native
American Tribes, Climate, Colony, Captain John Smith, Capital Resources, Cash Crop, Credit, Colonists,
Constitution, Creation of West VA, copper, Commonwealth, Consumer, Communication
D – Declaration of Independence, Dismal Swamp, Dairy, Debt, Declaration of Rights, Discrimination, Douglas
Wilder, Desegregation, diverse, drinking fountains,
E – Eastern Shore, Eastern Chickahominy, Eastern Woodland Indians, Economic Venture, Executive Branch, English,
Europeans, Enslaved African Americans, Exchange
F – Freedmen’s Bureau, Fredericksburg, Fall Line, Federal Government, Farming, Free African Americans, Flat land,
federal jobs, factory, Fresh water, freedom of press
G – George Washington, George Mason, Great Valley, Gold, General Assembly, Germans, Great Britain
H – House of Burgesses, Hardships Faced in Jamestown, Human Resources, Harriet Tubman, Harry F. Byrd, Sr,
House of Delegates, hard on the soil
I – Industry, Information Technology, Iroquoian, Integration, Independence, interact,
J – Jefferson, James River, Jamestown, Judicial Branch, James Lafayette, Jack Jouett, James Madison, John Brown,
Jim Crow Laws
K – Kentucky, King James I, key role
L – Lincoln, Lake Drummond, Legislative Branch, Local Assemblies, Loyalists, Life – Liberty- And The Pursuit of
Happiness, Lee, Linwood Holton Jr., L. Douglas Wilder, Landforms, Lake, Livelihood,
M – Mason, Merrimack and Monitor, Maryland, Middle Peninsula, Military Bases, Monacan, Mattaponi, Massive
Resistance, Maggie L. Walker, Mountain, Modernization
N – North Carolina, Northern Neck, Native American Tribes, Nansemond, Natural Resources, Neutralist, Nat Turner, Native
O – Oliver W. Hill, Sr., Ocean
P – Pamunkey, Physical Geography, Products of VA, Peninsulas (4), Potomac River, Piedmont Region, Plateau,
Parliament, Peanuts, Poultry, Powhatan, Permanent, Plantations, Paper Money, Patrick Henry, Patriots, Physical
Geography, Positive Relationship, prosperity, Pay as you go, prejudice
Q – Question (Choose any topic this year to create and then answer a question)
R – Regions of VA, Rappahannock River, Richmond, Recreation, Rappahannock Native Americans, Raw Materials, Reasons to
Move Jamestown’s Site, Reasons the Capital Moved To Williamsburg, Reasons the Capital Moved To Jamestown, Robert E.
Lee, Reconstruction, Relative Location, rolling hills
S – Stonewall Jackson, Slaves, States that border VA, Shenandoah Valley, Seafood, Shipbuilding, State Government, Siouan,
Stockholders, Savings, Scots-Irish, Statute for Religious Freedom, Seceded, Segregation, Sharecropping, Separate but Equal,
Spanish Empire
T – Thomas Jefferson, Tennessee, Tidewater, The Peninsula, Tourism, Technology, Tobacco, Taxation Without Representation,
Taxes
U – Ulysses S. Grant, Upper Mattaponi
V – Victory, Virginia, Virginia Regions, Virginia Company of London, Virginia Declaration of Rights, Virginia Statute for
Religious Freedom, Virginia Advances, voting test
W – Washington, Woodrow Wilson, West Virginia, Werowocomoco, Williamsburg, Women, watershed
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X – E cellent Facts - (Choose any term you have not used)
Y- Yorktown, York River
Z- Zig Zag Facts – (Choose any terms you have not used)
Below you will find the rubric which will be used to grade your project.
History ABC Book
WOW! (4)
ALMOST THERE
(3)
ON THE WAY (2)
NEEDS WORK (1)
COMPLETENESS
Project had all of the
required
information.
Project had almost
all of the required
information.
Project was missing
several pieces of
information.
Project had too much
missing information.
ACCURACY OF
INFORMATION
Information was
correct.
Only a few mistakes
in information.
Many mistakes in
information.
Too many mistakes
in information.
SPELLING AND
CAPITALIZATION
All words were
spelled and
capitalized correctly.
Most words were
spelled and
capitalized correctly.
Many mistakes in
spelling and
capitalization.
Too many mistakes
in spelling and
capitalization.
NEATNESS AND
ORGANIZATION
Project was
extremely neat and
easy to read and
understand.
Project was pretty
neat and easy to
understand.
Project was a little
messy and hard to
understand.
Impossible to
understand project
because it was so
messy.
Score: _______________
Grade: _________________