Black History Month

Read this and Do this -- We will begin a black history month project. You will be making a blog for one influential and notable African American. You need to post your top three picks of who you would like to study. Post this on your blog. I will give your assingment tomorrow.

Choose from the following:

Martin Luther King
Corretta Scott King
Frederick Douglass
Maya Angelou
Oprah Winfrey
Bill Cosby
President Barack Obama
First Lady Michelle Obama
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Governor David Patterson
Tiger Woods
Booker T. Washington
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Hank Aaron
Chuck Berry
Halle Berry
Charles Barkley
George Washington Carver
Diana Ross
Venus Williams
Serena Williams
Natalie Cole
Sammy Davis Jr.
Missy Elliot
Sean Combs
Aretha Franklin
Nikki Giovanni
Ken Griffey, Jr.
Sojourner Truth
Sugar Ray Leonard
Malcom X
Rosa Parks
Thurgood Marshall
Condoleezza Rice
Jackie Robinson
Harriet Tubman
Benjamin Bannekar
Anita Hill

Spend some time thinking about the person you want to research. You will be working on this for the next few weeks!

DO THIS - At this website, pick 5 different links/posts to read. Read them and write a 3 sentence summary about each link. Pick whatever you want - there is lots to choose from!

http://www.infoplease.com/spot/bhm1.html

DO THIS - Continue to read at this website. Complete 3 of the quizzes on the website. On your blog, write which quiz you choose and your score.