Name: __________________________________
Date: ___________________
8th Grade US History
1920s Biography Project
Your assignment is to design a fake social media webpage – Facebook Page, Twitter Feed, or Blog –
for an important person from the Roaring Twenties.
Your page should be constructed on poster board using digital media (done mostly by computer);
consult with your teacher before doing anything by hand. You must include the following:
Facebook Page
5 points
15 points
Name/picture placed at
the top of the page
Biographical Information
 Birth date/place
 Family history
 Early life
 Education, etc.
“About Me” paragraph
detailing your importance
to the 1920s, including a
description of your best
known works/projects and
how you are viewed by
the public at large
5 points
15 points
10 points
Section showing a
minimum of 5 “friends”
(w/ pictures)
Minimum of 15 “wall
posts” (comments from
friends, events attended,
status updates, etc.
Work is creative, colorful,
neat, historically accurate,
follows PACTS, and
looks like Facebook Page
Twitter Feed
Blog
Name/picture placed at
the top of the page
Profile (2 paragraphs)
Name/picture placed at
the top of the page
Profile (2 paragraphs)
Biographical Information
 Birth date/place
 Family history
 Early life
 Education, etc.
Biographical Information
 Birth date/place
 Family history
 Early life
 Education, etc.
“About Me” paragraph
detailing your importance
to the 1920s, including a
description of your best
known works/projects
and how you are viewed
by the public at large
Section showing a
minimum 5 “followers”
(w/ pictures)
Minimum of 15 “tweets”
– may be tweets by your
subject, re-tweets from
friends, tweets “at” you
Work is creative, colorful,
neat, historically accurate,
follows PACTS, and
looks like a Twitter Feed
“About Me” paragraph
detailing your importance
to the 1920s, including a
description of your best
known works/projects
and how you are viewed
by the public at large
Section showing a
minimum 5 “subscribers”
(w/ pictures)
Minimum 4 paragraphlong blog entries AND a
minimum of 2 comments
for each by subscribers
Work is creative, colorful,
neat, historically accurate,
follows PACTS, and
looks like a Blog
Total Points Possible: 50
Best Sources of Information (note - several of these links may only work at school):
Gale Resources in Context: http://ic.galegroup.com/ic/suic/?userGroupName=grea87475&
Grolier Online: http://go.grolier.com/ (try both the Middle School and High School tabs)
World Book Online: http://www.worldbookonline.com/student/home
ABC-CLIO on American Government: http://americangovernment.abc-clio.com/
Encyclopedias and individual biographies on your subject [see library]
This project will be due in completed form on FRIDAY, JANUARY 18
Topic Choices – see your teacher if you have other ideas
1. Sports
4. Audio-Visual Arts
Babe Ruth
Lou Gehrig
Jack Dempsey
Knute Rockne
Satchel Paige
Gertrude Ederle
“Shoeless” Joe Jackson
Red Grange
Fred Astaire
Aaron Douglas
George Gershwin
Ira Gershwin
Duke Ellington
Billie Holliday
Louis Armstrong
Bessie Smith
2. Film
5. Literary Arts
Harold Lloyd
Charlie Chaplin
Al Jolson
Rudolph Valentino
Langston Hughes
Countee Cullen
Ernest Hemingway
F. Scott Fitzgerald
3. Gangsters and Lawmen
6. Innovators
Elliot Ness
Arnold Rothstein
Al Capone
Lucky Luciano
Charles Lindbergh
Amelia Earhart
Albert Einstein
Henry Ford
7. Governmental Figures
8. Other
Warren G. Harding
Calvin Coolidge
Herbert Hoover
J. Edgar Hoover
William Jennings Bryan
Clarence Darrow
Marcus Garvey
Eugene V. Debs
VERY IMPORTANT NOTE:
Many of these historical figures were important either before
or after the 1920s. Please do your best to make sure that your
social media page reflects the actions and achievements that
your subject actually engaged in during the proper decade!!!!
A sample historical Facebook page:
A sample historical Twitter Feed: