Excellent Adventure Project
for
7th
Designed by: Sean Junkins
Grade Social Studies in South Carolina
Just like Bill and Ted, you will be responsible for “kidnapping” a historical figure…
Parts of the Assignment
Two Paragraph Report - (20 points)
1st Paragraph: Who is your person and why is this person important?
Focus on the events and actions in their life, NOT the year they were born, their parents names, number
of children, etc.
2nd Paragraph: What would they think about the world today?
Use adjectives to explain their feelings about the world as we know it
PLEASE TYPE THIS PART OF THE PROJECT
Job Interview – (20 points)
Pick one question from each of the four boxes below (4 questions total) and write a 2-3 sentence
response on how your historical figure would answer each of these common interview question.
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Why should someone hire you?
What is your greatest strength?
What are your hobbies?
What special skills or talents do you
have?
What has been your biggest success?
III
What would your friends and co-workers
say about you?
What type of work would you be good
at?
Are you a team player?
Do you prefer to work by yourself or with
others?
What would your dream job be?
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What were the duties and responsibilities of your
last job?
What experience do you have?
Why did you leave your last job?
What are your career goals?
What have you learned from your past jobs?
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What irritates you about other people?
What kind of people would you refuse to work
with?
What are your weaknesses?
What has been your biggest failure?
What has been the most difficult challenge you
have ever faced?
PLEASE TYPE THIS PART OF THE PROJECT
The Project – (30 points)
Share the knowledge you gained about your historical figure and what they would think about today’s
world. You have many different options to choose from in presenting your work…
Here are a few ideas:
PowerPoint
PhotoStory
Brochure
Poster
Reenactment
Movie
Whatever you can think of
(just get it approved first)
The Presentation – (15 points)
Share your work with the class!
The Questions – (15 points)
At the end of your presentation, you will be asked three questions about your historical figure. Not
complex or tricky questions, just basic information questions that should be easy to answer for someone
who has researched the historical figure. Each correct response will be worth five points.
All work should be completed by May 15th…..
Students who complete and present their projects early will
be rewarded accordingly
Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure
PASS Review People Project
Student Name: ___________________________________________________
Historical Figure: ____________________________________________________
Assignment Part
Points
Comments
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Two Paragraph Report
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Job Interview
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Project:
___________________
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Presentation
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Three Questions
Project Grade: __________________
Unit 1
Exploration and Ideas
7th Grade Social Studies
Historical Figures
Unit 2
Revolution, Industrialization,
and Imperialism
Marco Polo
Prince Henry the Navigator
Bartholomeu Dias
Vasco de Gama
Christopher Columbus
Ferdinand Magellan
Hernan Cortes
Francisco Pizarro
Queen Nzinga
Francis Xavier
Adam Smith
Louis XIV (14th)
Peter the Great
Catherine the Great
Isaac Newton
John Locke
Baron de Montesquieu
Thomas Jefferson
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Galileo Galilei
Francis Bacon
Rene Descartes
Louis XVI
(16th)
Unit 3
Global Conflicts
Franz Ferdinand
Woodrow Wilson
Marie Antoinette
Vladimir Lenin
Maximilien Robespierre
David Lloyd George
Napoleon Bonaparte
Georges Clemenceau
Toussaint-Louverture
Vittorio Orlando
Miguel Hidalgo
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Simon Bolivar
Adolf Hitler
Otto Von Bismarck
Benito Mussolini
Samuel Slater
Joseph Stalin
Richard Arkwright
Emperor Hirohito
James Watt
Hideki Tojo
Eli Whitney
Neville Chamberlain
Henry Bessemer
Winston Churchill
Robert Fulton
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Samuel Morse
Harry S. Truman
Alexander Graham Bell
Douglas MacArthur
Guglielmo Marconi
Thomas Edison
William McKinley
Theodore Roosevelt
James Monroe
Rudyard Kipling
Emilio Aguinaldo
Shaka Zulu
Unit 4
The Modern World
Jawaharlal Nehru
George C. Marshall
Indira Gandhi
Nikita Khrushchev
Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf
Mao Zedong
Nelson Mandela
Chiang Kai-shek
Desmond Tutu
Harry Truman
Jimmy Carter
Douglas MacArthur
Eleanor Roosevelt
Ho Chi Minh
Slobodan Milosevic
Fidel Castro
John F. Kennedy
Lyndon B. Johnson
Leonid Brezhnev
Richard Nixon
Ronald Reagan
Mikhail Gorbachev
Boris Yeltsin
David Ben-Gurion
Yasser Arafat
Golda Meir
Anwar Sadat
Manachem Begin
Yitzhak Rabin
Ayatollah Khomeini
Saddam Hussein
Osama bin Laden
Mohandas Gandhi
Historical Figure
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