Ms. Moody and I had a discussion over the summer about who would we invite to dinner if we could invite anyone… and as the conversation goes we started to include different options.  As we thought about this early in the fall, this project began to emerge.

Last week we did some scaffolding activities about biographies and influential people.  Students had the opportunity to review research processes using both World Book online and the reference books in our school library. Student showed a significant amount of background knowledge about the genre of biographies.

The initial part of our project is to find background information about our eminent people.  Students are selecting 10 people they would invite to dinner following this criteria: 5 men, 5 women, 5 different centuries represented, 10 different influences (scientists, explorers, writers, artists, athletes, inventor, musicians, politicians/rulers, spiritual) and from 3 different continents.   By Thursday March 8th, students will need to complete a brief biography, explanation of why they chose the person, what would the seating plan look like and why, and a discussion about what might be the conversations that happen at the table or what might you might want to ask the people.