Assumed Colonial Identity Project

Courtesy of Cooonial Williamsburg Foundation 2002
Power Point Presentations On this page, we will be placing the biography power point of our students' Assumed 18th Century Characters. After studying the Colonial period of American History, our students chose a charachter who really lived in or visited Williamsburg in the 1770's. They were given a short bio sheet of the character and asked to come up with some generalizations about the person, based on their social class and from the class having previously viewed video depictions of 18th century life in Roots, as well as Colonial Williamburg Foundation's Electronic Field Trips and video tapes entitled, The Runaway, and Reflections on Liberty (The Thoughts of Thomas Jefferson and Patrick Henry).

The students then did research, including obtaining copies of Primary Sources about their character from www.history.org and from the Colonial Williamsburg Teacher Institute's 2001 Participant CD-Rom. Based on that, they created a fictionalized biography of their "Assumed Identity". The Power point Presentations, several samples of which are linked below, are grouped based on the social class of the character.

The Power Point for each character includes the following elements-

A biographical sketch told as a fictionalized autobiography
Photos and/or Drawings of colonial settings, artifacts or recreations
Backgrounds, transitions and animations as chosen by the student based on the provided template
A basic bibliography

Main Project Page with Guideline and Rubric Links

Power Point slide Presentation Overview of this project
Teacher-made Template for Student Power Point
Teacher made Sample: John Anderson - Colonial Blacksmith
Storyboard for Power Point
Rubric for Storyboard
Power Point Template
Power Point Rubric

Images Courtesy of Williamsburg Foundation 2002

Meet our Assumed Identities on Power Point
10 Exemplary Samples out of 30 submitted

Gentry Class	Middling Class	The Working Poor	Enslaved Africans
Betty Randolph George Wythe Thomas Jefferson Patrick Henry	John Greenhow Christiana Campbell Ann Wager	Matthew Ashby	Eve (owned by Randolphs) Gowan Pamphlett (escaped slave)

Template for Assumed Colonial Identity Power Point (.ppt file)

Credits

CD-Rom Resources
Microsoft Encarta Encyclopedia Standard 2001
Microsoft Encarta Africana 2000
Colonial Williamsburg Teacher Institute 2001
World Book Millenium Edition
Groliers Encycopedia 1999

Web Sites

www.history.org Colonial Williamsburg Foundation

www.bigchalk.com A Day in the Life Learn about everyday Colonial life

www.loc.gov Library of Congress

www.infoplease.com Infoplease on line encyclopedia & almanac

www.school.discovery.com Many great links on many topics

www.sjquiltmuseum.org San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles

www.animfactory.com Animation Factory Graphics and Templates

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www.history.org	Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
www.bigchalk.com A Day in the Life	Learn about everyday Colonial life
www.loc.gov	Library of Congress
www.infoplease.com	Infoplease on line encyclopedia & almanac
www.school.discovery.com	Many great links on many topics
www.sjquiltmuseum.org	San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles
www.animfactory.com	Animation Factory Graphics and Templates