This project is designed for you to learn more about your family.  You are going to research your family's history.  You will have to then make a family tree.  A sample of a family tree will be passed out to you in class.  You can use it as a model or create your own style of family tree.

What you have to do:

• Talk to your parents/grandparents about your family's history.
• Create a graphic organizer that is a rough draft of your family tree.
• When you have turned in the graphic organizer, you can then get a piece of poster board from your teacher.
• Make a family tree on the poster board.
• Prepare a brief, 1-2, minute presenation to the class on your family's history.  Include what country(countries) your ancestors came from, when they came to Missouri, and what they did for a living.

Grading Criteria:

This assignment will be worth 25 points.  Here is how the points will be awarded.

• 5 pts for the rough draft of your tree.
• 5 pts for the presentation to the class.
• 5 pts for the organization of the family tree.
• 5 pts for the neatness of the family tree.  You may not be an artist, but you can be neat.
• 5 pts for the effort shown in the assignment.

This assignment will be due two weeks after the Missouri History Unit is complete.

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