Sara Cordsen

7- Plan and Launch the Project

Sara Cordsen Project Description

  • April 26, 2021 at 4:48 AM
  • Visible to public
Changemakers Project
Choose a person who has created positive change in our world and fought for equal rights for all people or choose an event which has changed the world for all people.  You might choose an Abolitionist and/or a Womens' Suffragist.
Possible Changemakers:  
  • Susan B. Anthony
  • Lucretia Mott
  • Harriet Tubman
  • Frederick Douglass
  • Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • Sojourner Truth
  • William Lloyd Garrison
  • William Wells Brown
  • Henry Box Brown
  • Elizabeth Cady Stanton
  • Alice Paul
  • Abraham Lincoln
  • Lucy Stone
  • Ida B. Wells
  • Francis E.W. Harper
  • Mary Church Terrell
  • Robert Gould Shaw
  • William Seward
  • Dred Scott

Possible Changemaking Events
  • Emanicipation Proclamation
  • Seneca Falls Convention
  • Civil War
  • Underground Railroad
  • Amendments to the Constitution
    • 13th amendment 
    • 14th amendment
    • 15th amendment
    • 19th amendment
Changemakers Project
Step 1:  Choose research topic.
Step 2:  Organize research notes
  • All About the Bigger Topic
  • All About the Focused topic
  • The Story of.... 
  • Why this topic is important

Step 3:  Find resources
  • Book from JA library
  • Databases from JA library
  • See Ms. Cordsen if you need other resources

Step 4:  Take Notes
  • Use bullets to organize information

Step 5:  Layout Page 
  • First, in Notebook
  • Then, on Book Creator

Step 6
  • Write!  
  • Be sure to put information into your own words.