Name: ______________________________________________________________
Topic: ______________________________________________________________
Create a one page document about your assigned topic. As a class, we will create a timeline that reviews
events in U.S. history before the writing of the Constitution (our beginning point for this year).
You should begin with the information in your textbook. Use the index to find the helpful page(s). Then,
deepen your search by using the Internet. Be sure to use trustworthy sources.
Be sure to include:
1. Date associated with the person or event.
2. Most important information about person/event presented in bullet points. Be sure to include
how or why this person or event is important to the story of our nation. Keep in mind “Who,
What, When, Where, How/Why”.
3. You may add additional information if you have space. Consider adding an appropriate image
(drawing, diagram, map).
4. Prepare a short (1-2 minutes) oral presentation to share your information with the class. When
you present be sure to:
a. Speak slowly, loudly, clearly
b. Make eye contact
c. Know your information well enough that you do not read off your paper
d. Stand still
e. Smile- it will make us think you know what you are talking about!
When you present your information, give the bottom portion of this paper to the teacher.
------------------------------------------------------------------------Student name ___________________________________ Topic ______________________________
Here is how your work will be evaluated:
__________ out of 5 points for accurately explaining who/what
__________ out of 5 points for accurately explaining when/where
__________ out of 5 points for accurately explaining how/why important to our nation’s history
__________ out of 5 points for speaking so you can be heard and understood
__________ out of 5 points for standing still and making eye contact
__________ TOTAL out of 25 possible points
Major Topics:
1. Magna Carta
2. John Peter Zenger
3. Navigation Acts
4. Middle Passage
5. Triangular Trade
6. Great Awakening
7. John Locke
8. Baron de Montesquieu
9. French and Indian War
10.Proclamation of 1763
11.Sugar Act
12.Stamp Act
13.Townshend Acts
14.Boston Massacre
15.Committees of Correspondence
16.Tea Act
17.Boston Tea Party
18.Intolerable Acts
19.First Continental Congress
20.Lexington and Concord
21.Second Continental Congress
22.Battle of Bunker Hill
23.Common Sense
24.Declaration of Independence
25.Battle of Long Island
26.Battle of Trenton
27.Saratoga
28.Valley Forge
29.Battle of Yorktown
30.Treaty of Paris