Project #1
Biographical Mini-Report
DUE: 12 November
You will write a short, basic report on an individual important to the time period
which we will be covering in the second nine weeks. I expect you to use multiple
sources that are reliable. While there is nothing wrong with Wikipedia for fast
information, it should not be a source that makes an appearance on your Work
Cited page.
Please review MLA guidelines on how to cite correctly. You can find help on-line
at:
http://www.owl.english.purdue.edu;
http://library.hunter.cuny.edu/tutorials/mla/mla_tutorial.html;
or I have handbooks you can borrow.
Remember that, other than common knowledge information, anything you write
that is not in your own words must be quoted and/or credited.
Your report needs, at a minimum, an introduction, two body paragraphs, and
a conclusion. You might want to devote one paragraph to basic information
like life chronology and then another paragraph on
accomplishments/ideas/impact.
Your polished report should be no less than 350 words (about 1⅓ pages), doublespaced, 12-point, TimesNewRoman font and should follow MLA guidelines for
format (if you don’t know what this is, ask) with the Work or Works Cited on a
separate page. I expect a minimum of two quotes in the text. Which also means
you may need parenthetical citations. We will have a few class meetings in the
computer lab for you to do research and write this report.
DUE:12 November
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Albrecht Dürer
Andreas Vesalius
Anton van Leeuwenhoek
Catherine the Great
Denis Diderot
Donatello
Eli Whitney
Elizabeth I
Ferdinand Magellan
Francesco Petrarch
Friedrich Engel
Genghis Khan
James Watt
Jeremy Bentham
Johann Gutenberg
Johannes Kepler
John Calvin
King Anawrahta
King Lalibela
King Suryavarman II
Kublai Khan
Leo Africanus
Lorenzo Medici
Mansa Musa
Marco Polo
Martin Luther
Michelangelo
Nicolo Machiavelli
Nicolus Copernicus
Osei Tutu
Pánfilo de Narváez
Peter the Great
Ponce de Leon
Prince Henry of Portugal
René Descarte
Maxmilien Robespierre
Sir Thomas More
St. Augustine
Tang Taizang
Thomas Malthus
Tokugawa Ieyasu
Voltaire
William Caxton
Yi Song-gye
Zeng He
Miguel de Cervantes
Bartolemé de las Casas