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World History 1 Final Project

Historical Yearbook

Directions: For this final project you will get to be the editor of your very own yearbook! You are responsible
for creating a history yearbook that demonstrates some of your learning from throughout the year. In the
following pages you may use any person, god, invention or civilization that we have covered throughout the
year but only once. Your information must be evenly spread throughout the 4 quarters.

Required for all: must complete page 1 & 2

PAGE 1: Front Cover (REQUIRED)

●​ Name of your fictional school (make it creative!)
●​ Title for yearbook
●​ Picture or drawing of school mascot (symbol or image that represents your fictional school)
●​ Your name and period

PAGE 2: The Year In Review page (REQUIRED)

●​ Choose THREE events that you thought were the most interesting, exciting, inspiring, amazing,
surprising or just plain crazy!
●​ Write a detailed description highlighting each event. In each description you must provide an
explanation that includes relevant facts, important people and the significance of the event.
●​ Provide a drawing or picture of each.

Choice Pages: must choose 3 out of 5 pages to put in your yearbook

OPTION 1: Superlatives
●​ 5 superlatives minimum. Be as creative and humorous as possible!
●​ Choose which people, civilizations, places or events best fit into each chosen superlative category.
●​ Superlatives should relate to a variety of civilizations and the winners should be from different cultures
and time periods. Include a picture and a 3-5 sentence explanation for why they won that superlative.

OPTION 2: Club
●​ The chosen club must contain at least FOUR people or civilizations we’ve studied.
●​ Include an image and short description of why you selected that person or civilization to be a member

OPTION 3: Advertisements
●​ Choose TWO historical inventions or innovations from the time period covered in this class (Prehistory
to around 1500 CE) that you believe had a significant impact on world history.
●​ Include a drawing or picture of it and write a paragraph or create a compelling advertisement that
encourages the reader to buy it based on why the invention is important, how it will make someone’s
life better or change the world and if it is still relevant today.

OPTION 4: Study Abroad

●​ Choose 4 locations to study abroad that you would most like to visit that were created before 1500 CE
●​ For each location selected, explain the following:
○​ Why that location was selected/important
○​ What famous people or event might you see there?
○​ Where in the world is it located?
OPTION 5: Staff
●​ Choose 4 people/civilizations that would potentially be hired to teach a course in your school. For each
teacher/professor identify the following:
○​ What is the name of the course?
○​ What is the course content being taught?
○​ Explain IN DETAIL why the person you selected is qualified to teach that course

Required for all:

WORKS CITED: final page

-​ Notes pages are cited by topic and day
-​ Outside sources are cited using MLA formatting - databases, textbook, others
-​ No google or wikipedia

List of Superlatives* List of Clubs*

●​ List of Superlatives ●​ The Conquerors Club
●​ Most Likely To Conquer The World ●​ The Inventors Club
●​ Most Adventurous ●​ The Athletics Club
●​ Most Faithful ●​ The Politicians Club
●​ Best Warlord ●​ The Thinkers Club
●​ Most Likely to Start a Fight ●​ The Spirituality Club
●​ Who Everyone Loves to Hate ●​ The Women of Ancient History Club (WOAH)
●​ Most Intellectual ●​ The Book Club
●​ Most Popular ●​ The Architecture Club
●​ Best Nickname ●​ Founders Club
●​ Most Ambitious
●​ The Chess and Board gaming Club
●​ The Explorers Club
●​ Most Likely to be called a Feminist
●​ The Art Club
●​ Most Likely to Change the World
●​ The “First”s Club (people or civilizations that
●​ Most Likely to be a Motivational Speaker
do something on Earth that has never been
●​ Most Likely to Overthrow the Government done before!)
●​ Most Likely to hang out with Mr. Chiprut ●​ OR CREATE YOUR OWN CLUB!
●​ Most Scary
●​ Most Changed
●​ Best New Idea
●​ Most Unforgettable
●​ Most Deadly
●​ Most Relevant to today *If you create your own, check with the teacher to get
●​ OR CREATE YOUR OWN SUPERLATIVE! approved.

~will be completed all on paper~

DUE DATE:
-​ Green days - June 2nd at end of class
-​ Blue days - June 3rd at end of class

Final Exam Presentations will take place on your designated final exam day.
 Planning Sheet:
REQUIRED Pages

Cover Page:
-​ Name of School ___________________________________________________________________
-​ Name of Yearbook _________________________________________________________________
-​ Image idea _______________________________________________________________________
-​ Your first and last name, period _______________________________________________________

Year in Review
-​ Historical Event #1 _________________________________________________________________
-​ Historical Event #2 _________________________________________________________________
-​ Historical Event #3 _________________________________________________________________

CHOICE Pages: pick 3!

Superlative Page
-​ Superlative #1 ________________________________ Winner ______________________________
-​ Superlative #2 ________________________________ Winner ______________________________
-​ Superlative #3 ________________________________ Winner ______________________________
-​ Superlative #4 ________________________________ Winner ______________________________
-​ Superlative #5 ________________________________ Winner ______________________________

Club Page
-​ Club Name ________________________________________________________________________
-​ Club Member #1 ______________________________________________________________
-​ Club Member #2 ______________________________________________________________
-​ Club Member #3 ______________________________________________________________
-​ Club Member #4 ______________________________________________________________

Advertisement Page
-​ Invention #1____________________________________Why buy?____________________________
-​ Invention #2 ____________________________________Why buy? ___________________________

Study Abroad Page

-​ Study Destination #1_________________________________________________________________
-​ Study Destination #2_________________________________________________________________
-​ Study Destination #3_________________________________________________________________
-​ Study Destination #4_________________________________________________________________

Staff Page
-​ Name of Course 1 ________________________________ Teacher 1 __________________________
-​ Name of Course 2 ________________________________ Teacher 2 __________________________
-​ Name of Course 3 ________________________________ Teacher 3 __________________________
-​ Name of Course 4 ________________________________ Teacher 4 __________________________

Works Cited - MLA (REQUIRED)

-​ Sources ___________________________________________________________________________
-​ Sources ___________________________________________________________________________
RUBRIC:
Criteria Excellent (4) Good (3) Fair (2) Needs Improvement (1)

Cover Page All requirements: Most Some Few or no requirements

Relevant school requirements met requirements met met
name, relevant
name of yearbook, Content is mostly Content is partly Content is inaccurate
name and period, accurate accurate
drawing

Content is all
accurate

Year in Review All requirements: 3 Most Some Few or no requirements

events with detailed requirements met requirements met met
explanations and
images Content is mostly Content is partly Content is inaccurate,
accurate with accurate with irrelevant, or missing
Content is all some strong underdeveloped
accurate with analysis analysis
strong analysis

Choice Pages All requirements Most Some Few or no requirements

x3 met for each page requirements met requirements met met
type
1 Content is mostly Content is partly Content is inaccurate,
Content is all accurate with accurate with irrelevant, or missing
2 accurate with some strong underdeveloped
strong analysis analysis analysis
3

Works Cited Complete works Mostly complete, Incomplete works No works cited, not in
cited, properly some formatting cited, many MLA format
formatted in MLA errors formatting errors

Creativity & Project is neat, Project is mostly Project lacks Project is confusing, off
Organization organized, and organized and significant topic, and/or uninteresting
easy to follow cohesive organization and
is hard to follow

Total: ___________ / 28