Thursday, April 29, 2010

Encyclopedia and famous gruesome deaths !

On the school library list serv today, a request was posted for ideas to encourage students to use their new set of World Book Encyclopedia... Gerri Judkins from Southwell School shared this activity which the students found very engaging !

For each of the names below, the students searched for their occupation and their gruesome death - what year, what country, and how...

Rasputin, Marie Antoinette, Saint Sebastian, Sir William Wallace, Jean-Paul Marat, Guy Fawkes, Wild Bill Hickok, Cleopatra, Blackbeard, Joan of Arc, Dian Fossey, Julius Caesar, Abraham Lincoln, Mary Queen of Scots...

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