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Training Overview: Introduces the Faces of History project, emphasizing essential year operations and student presentations.
Timeline & Checklist: Provides a step-by-step checklist for structuring and organizing the Faces of History project over several weeks.
Research & Decide: Details the process of selecting a historical character, gathering resources, and deciding on topics for the project.
Source KWOs: Guidelines to create and organize KWOs (Keyword Outlines) for multiple topics by sourcing from different materials.
Fused KWOs: Instructions and templates for merging KWOs into cohesive outlines for Topic A, B, and C.
Bibliography: Spaces and guidelines for documenting sources used in research as part of the bibliography section.
Body Paragraphs: Advice for drafting, editing, and refining the body paragraphs of the Faces of History paper.
Conclusion & Intro: Guidance on writing effective introductions and conclusions for the project, using KWOs and drafts.
Final Checklist: Checklist covering structure, style, mechanics, and vocabulary for the final project paper.
Prepare Presentation: Tips and ideas for preparing and delivering the presentation part of the Faces of History project.
Post-Assignment Assessment: Assessment questions aimed at students and parents to reflect on the project experience and outcomes.

Faces of History

Classical Conversations Essentials

Faces of History: The Capstone of an Essentials Year!

During each year in Essentials, students select a famous person from the history
focus of the current Foundations cycle, prepare a five-paragraph research paper
using the tools developed in the IEW work for the year, and then present their
person to the class (and others from the community).

Students work on their Faces of History papers during Unit 8 of the IEW book
(Formal Essay Models). In this unit, students learn to use multiple sources to
determine several topics within a general theme, create fused outlines, write
introduction and conclusion paragraphs, and prepare a bibliography.

On Week 24, as a final celebration for the Essentials year, students give a
presentation of their Faces of History paper, often dressing as their selected
person and presenting their paper in first person. It's a wonderful celebration
and capstone experience for students and parent alike!

Faces of History: How to Scale

Faces of History can be scaled for any age, ability, or tour!

Parents, as the teacher, you may reduce or eliminate any elements as needed.

Adjust the checklist by requiring only the stylistic techniques that have become
easy, plus one new one. Remember, “EZ+1!”

Some ideas for scaling might include:

 Reducing the number of sources
 Reducing the number of body paragraphs
 Shortening the introduction or conclusion
 Reducing the number of dress-ups, sentence openers, or decorations per paragraph
 Eliminating the bibliography
 Shortening the oral presentation
Faces of History: Timeline & Checklist
Research & Decide (Community Weeks 12-18)
 Choose your character
 Gather resources and get to know your character
 Decide on three topics about your character

Source KWOs & Fused KWOs (Community Week 19)

 Create Topic A KWO
 Create Topic A Fused KWO

 Create Topic B KWO

 Create Topic B Fused KWO

 Create Topic C KWO

 Create Topic C Fused KWO

 Begin bibliography

Body Paragraphs (Community Week 20)

 Write Topic A paragraph rough draft
 Write Topic B paragraph rough draft
 Write Topic C paragraph rough draft

 Edit body paragraphs, adding dress-ups and sentence openers as needed

Conclusion & Intro / Final Draft (Community Week 21)

 Create conclusion KWO
 Write conclusion paragraph rough draft
 Edit conclusion paragraph, adding dress-ups and sentence openers as needed

 Create introduction KWO

 Write introduction paragraph rough draft
 Edit introduction paragraph, adding dress-ups and sentence openers as needed

 Add a title
 Finalize bibliography
 Put it all together, edit, and create a final draft!

Prepare Presentation (Community Weeks 22-23)

 Plan your costume or visual aid.
 Prepare a first person presentation from your five-paragraph paper.
 Practice until you are comfortable with your presentation!
Research & Decide
(Community Weeks 12-18)

Choose Your Character

A Faces of History paper consists of up to a five-paragraph research paper on a famous person.
Characters are typically from the current history cycle, but the parent makes the final decision
on which character the student chooses.

Gather Resources
Read anything you can find about your person. Use library books, timeline cards, Story of the
World books, history books, or the internet, with the help of your parent (it is recommended that
you use sites that say “for children”). You’ll need at least three sources that are at reading your
reading level or below. Scan each source for topic ideas.

Source 1: ________________________________________________________

Source 2: ________________________________________________________

Source 3: ________________________________________________________

Source 4: ________________________________________________________

Source 5: ________________________________________________________

Decide on Three Topics

Select three topics or “themes” to write about in your paper. Possible topics include:

 His/her childhood, what life was like when he/she was young
 His/her personality, quirky things he/she did, or what made this person unique
 His/her clothes
 Something that he/she is famous for doing
 Something that he/she invented
 His/her adult life, unusual things he/she did, or things that happened to him/her
 How he/she became famous
 His/her second biggest accomplishment
 How this person affected the rest of history, science, art, etc.

Topic A: ________________________________________________________

Topic B: ________________________________________________________

Topic C: ________________________________________________________
Source KWOs & Fused KWOs
(Community Week 19)

Topic A KWO and Fused KWO

Crease a source KWO from each of your sources (at least two sources per topic).
Use your source KWO to create a fused KWO.
Remember to select the most interesting/important information

Topic B KWO and Fused KWO

Repeat the same process for your second topic.

Topic C KWO and Fused KWO

Repeat the same process for your second topic.

Begin Bibliography
Begin a bibliography, listing the sources you used to create your KWOs.
See the bibliography helps below for formatting, samples, and online resources.

* Bibliography Helps:

Bibliography Formatting Help

Purdue Online Writing Lab (Purdue OWL) – owl.english.purdue.edu
EasyBib (citation generator) – easybib.com

Bibliography Samples
Book:

“Chapter 11 The Apple and the Moon.” The Ocean of Truth: the Story of Sir Isaac Newton, by Joyce
McPherson and Tad Crisp, Greenleaf Press, 1997.

Timeline Card:

“Spanish Conquistadors in the Americas” [Card 95]. Classical Acts & Facts® History Cards: New World. West
End, NC: Classical Conversations MultiMedia, Classical Conversations MultiMedia 2012.

Website:

Britannica, The Editors of Encyclopaedia. “George Washington Carver.” Encyclopedia Britannica, 1 Jan.
2021, www.britannica.com/biography/George-Washington-Carver. Accessed 1 February 2021.
Source KWOs, Topic A

Topic A: ___________________________________________________________

Source 1: _________________________________________________________________________________________

1. __________________________________________________________________________________________________

2. __________________________________________________________________________________________________

3. __________________________________________________________________________________________________

(4.) ________________________________________________________________________________________________

(5.) ________________________________________________________________________________________________

Source 2: _________________________________________________________________________________________

1. __________________________________________________________________________________________________

2. __________________________________________________________________________________________________

3. __________________________________________________________________________________________________

(4.) ________________________________________________________________________________________________

(5.) ________________________________________________________________________________________________

Source 3: _________________________________________________________________________________________

1. __________________________________________________________________________________________________

2. __________________________________________________________________________________________________

3. __________________________________________________________________________________________________

(4.) ________________________________________________________________________________________________

(5.) ________________________________________________________________________________________________
Fused KWO, Topic A

I. Topic A: ________________________________________________________________________________________

1. ___________________________________________________________________________________________

2. ___________________________________________________________________________________________

3. ___________________________________________________________________________________________

4. ___________________________________________________________________________________________

5. ___________________________________________________________________________________________

(6.) __________________________________________________________________________________________

(7.) __________________________________________________________________________________________

Clincher: ___________________________________________________________________________________

STRUCTURE/STYLE PLANNING…

Topic/Clincher (highlight)
Reflect/repeat 2-3 key words

Dress-Ups (underline) Sentence Openers (number)

-ly adverb ਩ [1] subject ਩

who/which clause ਩ [2] prepositional ਩
strong verb ਩ [3] –ly adverb ਩
quality adjective ਩ [4] -ing ਩
www.asia.b clause ਩ [5] clausal – www.asia.b ਩
no banned words ਩ [6] vss ਩

Advanced Decorations? (italics)

(Use at least one different decoration per paragraph as possible)
alliteration, conversation/quotation, simile/metaphor, question, 3sss, vss open-close

Vocabulary? (bold)
Source KWOs, Topic B

Topic B: ___________________________________________________________