Abraham Lincoln Web Quest
by Shelby Coleman
Will Major
Bridget Barnes
Alex Robinson
( http://www.apples4theteacher.com/holidays/presidents-day/abraham-lincoln/photographs/ )
INTRODUCTION
Abraham Lincoln was the sixteenth President of The United States. In some cases he is depicted as one of the greatest presidents to have ever served. He was born Feb. 12, 1809, in Hodgenville, Kentucky. His father was uneducated and could hardly sign his name. During Abraham's childhood his father would abuse him and made work very hard. This might have contributed to his disliking slavery, because in some ways he was treated like one. Soon his mother died from drinking poisoned cow's milk. Soon after, Lincoln's father remarried and the family moved to Illinois. Lincoln's step-mother encouraged education greatly (something his father would not imagine taking part of). Abraham taught himself and only had one year of formal education. He would sometimes walk miles just to get a book. Abraham lived a very rough life. He was an extremely hard worker. In 1834 he was elected to the Illinois General Assembly. Soon he met a woman named Marry Todd. Mr. Lincoln and Mary Todd got engaged, but Abe broke off the engagement because he was afraid of marriage. After a couple of years they got back together and got married in 1842.During their marriage three out of their four sons died at early ages (William, Edward, and Tad) during Lincoln's lifetime. In 1846 Lincoln was elected to the House of Representatives. In 1858 he had several debates with Stephen A. Douglas on the issue of slavery. In 1860 he was elected the sixteenth President of The United States of America. During his presidency he had to face civil war, the issue of slavery, and rights for all humans. Mr. Lincoln was assassinated in 1865 by John Wilkes Booth. This happened while Lincoln was watching a play. He was an extraordinary man and if he had lived to see his second term as president, there wouldn't have been a need for Martin Luther King, Jr.
( http://www.apples4theteacher.com/holidays/presidents-day/abraham-lincoln/photographs/ )
TASK
Your task for this exciting Abraham Lincoln Web Quest is to create your own political cartoon! Political cartoons display a political message while incorporating humor. They are often satirical and can be bias. They consist of a title, a caption, and symbolic pictures or sayings. Your political cartoon must be representative of something that happened to Abraham Lincoln during his lifetime. Good luck!
PROCESS
1.Use the links provided in the next section to research a specific time in Lincoln's life. Then choose which topic you wish to make a cartoon out of.
2.Plot your ideas on a web diagram.
3.Draw a rough draft of your political cartoon.
4. Show your teacher the rough draft for approval and suggestions.
5. Begin to draw your final draft on a piece of plain white paper (11.5"X 7", preferably).
LINKS
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_lincoln
This website contains all the necessary in formation for this project.
EVALUATION
Your political cartoons will be evaluated with five equally balanced portions equaling 100 points.
20 points: Originality
20 points: Neatness (must be colored)
20 points: Related to topic
20 points: Effort provided
20 points: Rough draft present
____/100 points
CONCLUSION
Congratulations! You have completed the Abraham Lincoln Web Quest 2006! We hope this exciting adventure has been fun and educational! Abraham Lincoln is remembered as one of the greatest American Presidents and we hope you have gather a lot of useful information about him and his amazing life.
CREDITS
We would like to thank Mrs. Amy Horton for her work as one of the most outstanding teachers in America... the world, rather. Amy Horton has shed a special light on the planet since the day of her birth nearly twenty-some years ago. She has overcome insurmountable odds to become one of the finest human beings to ever be in existence. This project was completed in a manner as to one day aspire to be half of the morally rich person that Mrs. Amy Horton is.
We also used the World Book 2002 ("L")
and a video on the life of Abraham Lincoln.