Middle School: Grade 7 Humanities

Project Steps

1. Choose a poet.  Check with your teacher to ensure that your innovator is not already taken.
2. Sign in to Noodletools using your Laurel login.  Start a  new project and make sure it’s shared with your teacher.
3. Begin the research process using Noodletools.  Use the resources outlined by Ms. Rosebrock-Hayes and work through each necessary step.
4. Prepare a 2 - 3 minute biography of your innovator.  This introduction should include:
   1. A very brief background of your innovator
   2. What your innovator’s greatest innovation is
   3. How your innovator is connected to the World’s Fair
5. In addition, prepare for your roundtable discussion.  Your teachers and other members of the Laurel community will ask you specific questions about your innovator and his/her innovations.  How you answer these questions will be part of your grade.  You may have one page of notes (PRINTED) for the roundtable if you’d like.
6. Prepare a costume (as simple or as complicated as you’d like) for the roundtable discussion.
7. Participate in the discussion!  Make your voice heard and be an active member of the roundtable.
8. Reflect on the project.