Students enjoy researching and creating a "Memory Box" of a civil war hero. In this project (11 pages here), students research a civil war hero, write a biography (including a 3rd person prologue of life, 1st person monologue as the person, and epilogue of what student would say/ask person), write a journal/letter as person, write a poem, create vocabulary cards, surprising fact cards, artifacts, and a decorative box to contain all of these pieces. History in a box!


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I have been teaching grades 7 and 8 Language Arts and Social Studies at De Anza Academy of Technology & the Arts in Ventura, California since 2001. I have also briefly taught high school ESL (grades 9-12), and I spent one month teaching English in Moscow, Russia.
