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Master of Ceremonies?

Imagine this, after weeks of summer storms and flooding, you receive a packet in the mail congratulating you as being elected “Master of Ceremonies” for the Georgia Leadership Hall of Fame. It is a very prestigious honor. However, all you can make out from the wet, muddy, packet is the name of the recipient.

You can also make out that as “Master of Ceremonies” you are supposed to make a speech discussing why this person has won the award, but the information packet is destroyed. Bad news! However, you remember we have been learning a lot about important Georgia leaders. Good News! You know most of the information is available on our class web site. Your job is to use this information as well as additional research, to create a presentation to accompany your speech.

The audience will be honored students such as yourself. In your speech, you must, of course, tell what contributions to the state of Georgia this person has made. You also want to engage the audience by describing how this person is like, or unlike, kids today. Important things the audience could relate to are how this person is alike, (or different), in terms of:

a.) food they may have eaten
b.) clothing they may have worn (maybe their favorites)
c.) places and structures they may have lived in
d.) how they got around (transportation)
e.) how they communicated with their friends
f.) what they did just for fun (recreation)
g.) rights and freedoms (You know enough about history to know things in the past weren’t always like they are today.)

Conduct your research using the information and lessons from the Historical Georgians Webpage. How you present your speech is up to you. You can add a PowerPoint, sing a song, make an eBook, or dress up and pretend you are the winner of the award, (of course you would still have to tell about yourself). Some suggestions are included on these web pages. Good luck, and keep your fingers crossed that the event doesn’t get rained out!

Georgia Performance Standards Addressed

SS2H1 The student will read about and describe the lives of historical figures in Georgia history.
a. Identify the contributions made by these historic figures: James Oglethorpe, Tomochichi, and Mary Musgrove (founding of Georgia); Sequoyah (development of a Cherokee alphabet); Jackie Robinson (sports); Martin Luther King, Jr. (civil rights); Jimmy Carter (leadership and human rights).
b. Describe how everyday life of these historical figures is similar to and different from everyday life in the present (food, clothing, homes, transportation, communication, recreation, rights, and freedoms).

 

   

image of the letter "G" courtesy of http://memorymaze.com.au/category/script-uppercase-45.html
image of Sequoyah courtesy of http://www.powersource.com
image of James Oglethorpe courtesy of http://aphistory2010.yolasite.com/ch4.php
image of Tomochichi courtesy of http://georgiainfo.galileo.usg.edu/tdgh-jul/jul17.htm
image of Mary Musgrove courtesy of http://georgiainfo.galileo.usg.edu/georgiawomen.htm
image of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. courtesy of http://www.fiftiesweb.com/pop/famous-people-1.htm
image of Jimmy Carter courtesy of
https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/csi-publications/books-and-monographs/our-first-line-of-defense-presidential-reflections-on-us-intelligence/carter.html
Georgia Standards https://www.georgiastandards.org

Last Updated on July 5, 2011 by Jennifer Jackson