SS8 Project #2 Important People

In the Medieval world there was no texting, calling, or posting, only canvas, papyrus,
skins, eventually paper, and ink. In this project it is your job to create a correspondence with
one or two classmates. You will each choose a famous person that lived between 600 C.E. and
1750 C.E. and have a conversation through letters. Each person must create a project that
contains both a written section and a visual component. On one side of your canvas, skin, scroll,
etc. you will write a letter discussing:
Written Component
Why you are important/ what are you remembered for
o Inventions, findings, explorations, military campaigns, discoveries
When you lived
Where you were from or where you lived/ moved to
What other theories, findings, discoveries, sources agree or disagree with your own
o Bias
o Perspective
Description of your illustration
Why you are writing them
Anything else that might be important

On the other side you will draw at least one of the following:
Illustration
A map of your exploration, findings, solar system, constellations, conquests, etc.
Blueprint of your design of an invention you made
Timeline of your lineage, dynasties, heritage, monarchy, victories/ defeats
Picture of the beasts, monsters, dragons, you slayed
Anything else that is relevant to the contents of the letter

Each project must use at least 3 separate academic resources. That means you may begin
your research with Wikipedia but you cannot use it as one of your academic sources. All
sources must be submitted with your rough copy and approved by the teacher before you may
continue. All work must be submitted in your own words and will be checked for plagiarism.
 Important People
Muhammad Heraclius Theodosius II
Xuanzang Abu Bakr Caedmon
Emperor Gaozong of Tang Pascal the Great Umar
Abu Muslim Adrian I or IV/ Hadrian I Alcuin
Charles Martel Pepin the Short Charlemagne
Dezong Irene of Athens Leo III to X
Xuanzong Wu Zetian al-Jahiz
Alfred the Great Harald I of Norway Ivar the Boneless
Louis the Pious Vladmir I Otto I the Great
Otto II Otto III Erik the Red
Leif Eriksson Agnes (H.R.E Empress) Pope Alexander II
Alexios I Cai Xian Canute the Great
Conrad II Cheng Yi Edith of Wessex
El Cid Harold Godwinson Henry I / III/ IV
Isaac I Jia Xian Lanfranc
Lady Li Qingzhao Magnus Barefoot/ Good Macbeth
Mali Shah I Michael IV to VII Moctezuma II
Omar Khayyam Peter the Hermit Philip I/ II
Richard I (Lionheart) to III Robert II Sanjo
Shen Kuo Sigrid the Haughty Empress Theodora
Urban II Victor II/ III William the Conqueror
Empress Zoe Bertha Henry I to VIII
Innocent II/ III Leopold I to III Louis V to XV
Matilda of Tuscany Odo I to III Saladin
Sigurd I/ II Wang Zhen Edward I to Vi
Frederick II Genghis Khan Gertrude the Great
Gregory X Marco Polo Thomas Aquinas
Geoffrey Chaucer Alauddin Khiji Johannes Gutenberg
Constantine XI Henry the Navigator Isabella I
Ivan III Joan of Arc Mehmed II
Sejong the Great John Cabot Christopher Columbus
Vasco da Gama Nicholas Copernicus Ann Boleyn
John Calvin Charles I to Cuauhtemoc
Elizabeth I Francis I Martin Luther
Michel Nostradamus Mary I Mary Queen of Scots
Philip II to V of Spain Jacques Cartier Hernan Cortes
Sir Francis Drake Juan Ponce de Leon Ferdinand Magellan
Francisco Pizarro Michaelangelo Raphael
Leonardo da Vinci Niccolo Machiavelli Thomas More
William Shakespeare Tycho Brahe Galileo Galilei
Johannes Kepler Jean-Baptiste Colbert Oliver Cromwell
John Milton Isaac Newton John Locke
Catherine the Great Frederick the Great Pontiac
Tokugawa (Any) James Cook John Rackham
Edward Teach (Blackbeard) Mary Read Anne Bonny
Long John Silver Merlin King Arthur
Lancelot Guinevere Saint George

You will be marked using the following rubric:

Criteria 14 11 10 7 63 20
Excellent Proficient Basic Limited
Creative Produces an Produces a Produces a Produces a
Thinking elaborate and detailed and general vague or
engaging interesting message confusing
message message message

Visual and Presents in a Presents in a Presents in a Presents in a

Written way that is way that is way that is way that is
Literacy persuasive and mostly credible logical and has unhelpful and
has a purpose and has a a purpose that confusing and
that is clear purpose that is is somewhat does not show
mostly clear evident purpose
Historical and Builds an Builds an Builds an Builds an
Critical insightful and informative and argument inaccurate
Thinking historically realistic based on and ineffective
accurate argument common argument
argument knowledge

Total .

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