Education: Teachers - Curriculum Materials - Colonial Lifestyles

Pre- and Post-Visit Activities - Eighth Grade

Lesson Focus:
Revolutionary Resumes

Objective:
For students to learn about the careers and roles of prominent Colonial figures in North Carolina.

Materials:

• ‘Revolutionary Resume’ worksheet & Hezekiah Alexander Example (download a pdf)

• Library Research Time

Instructions:

1. This activity will give students an opportunity to research the backgrounds and careers of prominent figures during the Revolutionary period in North Carolina. Their research will be presented in the form of a resume for one of these people.

2. You may assign students specific people of importance or have them choose their own based on a certain criteria. Show them the Hezekiah Alexander resume as an example, and discuss the different elements. Below is a list of possible personalities:

   Timothy Blodworth Samuel Ashe Arthur Dobbs William Tryon James Moore Cornelius Harnett Josiah Martin William Hooper Jospeh Hewes Richard Caswell

   Elizabeth King Penelope Barker John McKnitt Alexander Abner Nash John Ashe William R. Davie William L. Davidson Nathaniel Alexander Thomas Blount Thomas Burke

    

3. Students can use the ‘Revolutionary Resume’ as a way to take notes and then create their own format or you can have them simply fill the sheet in to complete the assignment.

4. Books that may be of use in student research include:
   - A Chronicle of NC during the American Revolution, by Jeffrey Crow
   - NC Biographical Dictionary, by Somerset Publishing

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