Role 9 - Biographer

Biographer (medium level of difficulty)

You are interested in people–who they were and how they lived. Investigate historical figures who experienced changes similar to the ones characters in your novel also experienced. Choose one figure and write a paragraph detailing how the real life of this person from history is like one of the characters from the novel you are studying.

Make sure your product addresses these essential questions:

How or why did change happen?
How did people bring about and react to change?
Who was involved in the change?
Who benefited from the change?
Who suffered from the change?
Did the change have enduring effects that we can still see today?

Change Focus	Web Sites
Reconstruction	http://www.augustana.edu/libraryold/ethnic.html http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/ http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/P/index.htm http://www.udayton.edu/~dunbar/ http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query
Industrialization	http://www.augustana.edu/libraryold/ethnic.html http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/amex/carnegie/gildedage.html http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/P/index.htm http://www.ushistory.net/toc/
Immigration	http://www.augustana.edu/libraryold/ethnic.html http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/amex/carnegie/gildedage.html http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/P/index.htm http://www.ushistory.net/toc/
Westward Expansion	http://www.gbso.net/skyhawk/nativein.htm http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/ http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/P/index.htm
American Indian Conflict	http://www.gbso.net/skyhawk/nativein.htm http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/ http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/P/index.htm

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