The Louisiana Booklet
from Greg English
Oak Park Middle School
During the year my students put together a booklet on Louisiana. It is a
project that many teachers use. Our booklet is a 75+ page booklet. The
booklet will contain sections on the flags, government, food, politics,
buildings, and local color. I furnish the materials the students use for
research. Over the years I have put together folders of dittos of each item
requested, piece together the copy to be used, and much more due to
limited time in the Applied Tech lab and/or library. Below is a checklist of
what is required for our booklets. Add, subtract, or modify to meet your
students I have hyper-linked my work sheets to the items listed below.
needs. The booklet generally takes partial class time over a seven week
period.
LA History Booklet Instruction Sheet
Directions: State Divisions - Draw, trace, or use dittos for each map.
All lettering must be in BLUE or BLACK ink. Color maps. (use pages in
your text)
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State Divisions (Division sheet) must include artwork
Parish map
Parish seat map
Major Rivers, Lakes, Bayous
Highways and eight major cities
Cajun Triangle (label all parishes of triangle)
Directions: Government - Use you text, other books, or folders to get
information required. List all current state officials - Gov., Lt. Gov., Sec.
of State, etc plus all local officials. Using artwork provided, trace items
needed, color and do short (100 word min.) article on each. All writing
must be in BLUE or BLACK ink.
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Government (Division sheet) must include artwork
List all current state officials (Gov. through Senators & Reps.)
List of local officials (Mayor, City Council, Police Jury, etc.)
New State Capitol art and article
Old State Capitol art and article
Governor's Mansion art and article
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State Seal art and article
Directions: Flags of Louisiana - draw, color and complete write up
about each flag. Include dates that they flew over Louisiana on page with
flag artwork.
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Flags of Louisiana (Division sheet) must include artwork
Spanish (Leon and Castile) art and date(s) and article - page - JPG
file
French (Fleur de lis) art and date(s) and article - page - JPG file
British art and date(s) and article - page - JPG file
Spanish (Bourbon) art and date(s) and article - page - JPG file
French Tri-Color (French Revolution) art and date(s) and article page - JPG file
American (Star Spangled Banner) art and date(s) and article - page
- JPG file
Republic of West Florida (Lone Star) art and date(s) and article page - JPG file
United States (18 star flag) art and date(s) and article - page - JPG
file
Republic of Louisiana (1861) art and date(s) and article - page JPG file
Confederate States of America (Stars and Bars) art and date(s) and
article - page - JPG file
United States (current 50 star flag) art and date(s) and article - page
- JPG file
Flag colors shown HERE
Directions: State Symbols - Draw, color, and write brief (100 word
minimum) statement about each item listed on grade sheet.
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State Symbols (Division sheet) must include artwork
State Insect art and article - more
State Flower art and article - more
State Bird art and article more - more
State Tree art and article - more
State Dog art and article - more
State Seal art and article
State Songs, You are my Sunshine & Give Me Louisiana, and art
State Flag art and article flag,
State Crustacean art and article more- more
State Reptile art and article more
Other state symbols art bear, fish, drink
need info and colors? click HERE
Directions: Louisiana Architecture - Using material provided,
complete drawings and coloring of items listed below. Do FULL page art
for each.
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Louisiana Architecture (Division sheet)
Oaklawn Plantation and article
Nottoway Plantation (no boat) and article
Oak Alley Plantation and article
Houmas House Plantation and article
Rosedown Plantation and article
San Francisco Plantation and article
Directions: Louisiana Foods - Using Louisiana cookbooks, select one
breakfast, one meat, one seafood, one dessert recipe, and one recipe of
your choice. Finish each page by filling page with artwork to illustrate
recipe. Be sure to copy COMPLETE recipe - that includes ingredients,
how items are mixed, cooking temp, number served etc.
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A Taste of Louisiana (Division sheet)
Breakfast recipe and art
Meat or Poultry recipe and art
Seafood recipe and art
Dessert recipe and art
Recipe of choice and art
Directions: Louisiana Locally - Draw, trace, or use dittos for each
map. All lettering must be in BLACK ink. Color maps.
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Louisiana Locally (Division sheet) must include artwork
Lake Charles history article and art
Lake Charles city map
List of Lake Area's top ten events
Directions: Louisiana ABC's - research and select one item from
Louisiana History TEXT BOOK that goes with each letter of the alphabet
(no parishes or cities please) such as (A=Atchafalaya, B= Beast Butler,
etc) Using TWO letters per page, fill page with letter, artwork and a short
sentence describing each item selected. All items MUST be things we
studied this year and MUST be in the textbook..
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LA's ABC's
Letter A & B
Letter C & D
Letter E & F
Letter G & H
Letter I & J
- (Division sheet) must have artwork
- Artwork & sentences describing each chosen item
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Letter K & L
Letter M & N
Letter O & P
Letter Q & R
Letter S & T
Letter U & V
Letter W & X
Letter Y & Z
- Artwork & sentences describing each chosen item
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Bring a "new" 3-ring folder (binder) to class. All material will be put in this
binder according to the order of these checklists. A Table of Contents will
then be added to the front along with a hand drawn, full color cover
sheet. Turn in by due date posted on the board.