The Founders’ Graveyard Directions

 

1. To complete your tombstone, you will need the information from your Founding Fathers worksheet.

 

2.   As a team, create one tombstone for your founder.  Your tombstone must include both teammates’ names on the back.  On the front, you must have a creative finished design (your best work!) and the following:

A.   A map pinpointing your founder’s home state, and at least two other locations important to your founder.  Be sure to include annotations (notes) on the map explaining why each pinpointed location is important (bullets are fine).

B.  A picture of your founder.

C.    Using your spiral notes, write an epitaph for your founder that includes the following:

  • Founder’s name

  • An appropriate farewell title/quote (Example:  “beloved friend, father, and doctor” or the name and a quote someone really said about him, such as “A friend and care-giver to all.”)

  • date of birth/death

  • poem that incorportates facts and accomplishments (from your notes)  -- 10 lines minimum
    (AM must write an ODE; PM must write a SONNET.)

 Of course, neatness counts!

This non-profit government archives website has excellent biographical information on all the founding fathers:

 

Below are a couple of examples (No, one of them is not 10 lines, but yours must be!):  

Hernando Cortes

1485-1547

“Complicated Man of Discovery”

Here lies a Spanish explorer

And conqueror of the Aztec Empire

Hernando Cortes

There are many stories of him they sez'

But none could be truer then when the Aztecs were bluer

Each and every day that Cortes was so much crueler ...

 

Ferdinand Magellan

Exploration led to an arrow “strait” through his heart

1480 - 1621

Here lies Magellan,

His wife's name was Beatriz, not Helen.

He tried to sail the around the world to theWest.

His crew was really a pest.

 Though there are straits that bear his name,

 his untimely end gives him the greatest fame.

He first found the Philippines;

What happened next might make you scream

He caught an arrow in his back from an Indian attack.

So in a box he now lies to protect him from the flies.