Ancient History Wax Museum
Dear Parents,
Arrows Academy excited to announce a fun learning experience our students will be taking part
in. Your child will soon be choosing a person from ancient history to learn more about.
The Wax Museum will be held on Wednesday, October 30th at 8:30 AM and will consist of the
following:
1. Poster: Students will need to create a poster with important facts, information, and
pictures about their person on a tri-fold. The poster needs to be neat, creative,
colorful, and have pictures that depict this person ’s life. See the website for samples.
2. The Wax Museum: Students will need to come dressed as their person. Props are a nice
touch. They will also need to create a button to put on a table. When this is pushed,
they will come to “life” telling about their person. They should memorize their 10 facts,
starting with “Hello, my name is ...”
3. Research Report: Students will be required to submit a Five paragraph biography report
on their chosen person. We will utilize our IEW Lessons 14-19 as a guideline. There will
be no additional IEW homework during these weeks.
4. In Class Presentations: So all the students can see and learn from their classmates, the
students will present their person in an in class presentation on Tuesday, October 29. A
good presentation will consist of good expression, eye contact, and memorization of the
10 facts.
5. A rubric will be used to give two grades for this project. One grade will be for IEW only
and will utilize the Rubric on Page 124 in their book. The other Rubric will consist of
completion of each stage on time as well as the content of the Presentation and poster.
A more detailed rubric for the Presentation and Poster portions is listed on the Arrows
website.
Arrows Academy looks forward to this fun event and we know it will be a great learning
experience for our students! Let me know if you have any questions!
Sincerely,
Mrs. Owens
Timeline:
Week Of….
September 24th & 25th: Get your person approved by your
child’s teacher, and find 2 non-fiction books to use. Start
Reading and making KWO’s. Use Lesson 15 in IEW Medieval
Book as a guideline. Complete your Bibliography in MLA
format.
October 1st & 2nd: Complete reading. Take notes. Write
KWO’s and fuse them Using Lesson 15 from IEW Medieval
Book.
October 8th & 9th: Using Lesson 16 from IEW as a guideline,
complete KWO for Introductory and Concluding paragraphs.
Start looking for costume.
October 15th & 16th: Finish report using Lesson 17 from IEW
as a guideline. Finish costume. Start poster.
October 22nd & 23rd: Turn in report! Start memorizing 10
facts and finish poster.
October 30th : Bring poster to wax museum, come in
costume.
Important Facts
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Due Date
1-Oct
1-Oct
8-Oct
15-Oct
22-Oct
29-Oct
30-Oct
30-Oct
30-Oct
Character Chosen and Books
Purchased
Bibliography Complete
KWO's Complete
Intro/Concl. KWO's
Rough Draft Due
Final Report Due
Poster
Wax Museum
Presentation
/5
/5
/10
/10
/15
/15
/15
/10
/15
Comments:
Total Grade
/100
This rubric will be used in conjunction with the specific
Wax Museum Rubric to give each student a History
Project grade. The research paper will be an IEW
Project Grade and will utilize the rubric on Page 124 of
the student’s IEW book.