Biography FakeBook Project

Person researched _________________________

Project TimelineAssigned: January 16, 2015, Computer Lab: Jan 22, 2015, Computer Lab: Jan 30, 2015, Due: February 5, 2015

It’s time for you to show what you know about the historical figure you chose to research! For this project, you will create a Fakebook page for the person you have selected to do research. Note: You must have printed out your research by Jan 22nd. Please look over the Fakebook page for Sir Isaac Newton located of your teacher’s webpage. You will be able to edit that file, making your own page. Remember to use it as a guide for completing your own. All of this information may not be in the research you completed,

but try to fill in information for all parts based on what you researched about the person and be creative!

Here’s a rubric, so that you can make sure to earn a top score:

Project Requirements

Fakebook Wall (40 points)

•This page should include a picture, and the name of the historical figure, networks (places where the person lives or works, organizations he/she is involved

in), birthday, political party (if you know it), religion (if you know it), and hometown.

•This page should have a status update at the top that would relate to an important event in the person’s life.

•This page should have 4 wall posts. These can be posts by the biographical figure and/or also by “friends”. These posts should include information stating why this person is an important figure in history.

•This page should have pictures and names for at least 4 “friends”. These are people that your biographical figure would have known (family, famous friends, etc.)

Fakebook Info (30 points)

•Include all of the basic information that you know (networks, sex, birthday, hometown, relationship status, political views, religious views, etc.)

•Include personal information based on what you know about this character (activities, interests, favorite music, accomplishments, favorite books)

•Include contact information and cover pictures for photo albums.

Photos Page (15 Points)

•Include at least 7 individual photos, 2 photo album covers and a profile picture.

Spelling, grammar and conventions (15 Points)

•Please remember to proofread! You don’t want errors to detract from your work!

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Information

Networks:Cambridge UniversityBirthday:4 January 1643Political:UnattachedReligion:CatholicHometown:Woolsthorpe, Lincolnshire

Friends

Nicolas Fatio de DuillierVoltaire

John Locke

Sir Isaac Newton "Plato is my friend — Aristotle is my friend — but my greatest friend is truth."

October 13, 1715

Catherine Barton Conduitt

Sir Isaac Newton Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy. January 31, 1715

Sir Isaac Newton I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.”

December 31, 1714

Sir Isaac Newton I was like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.“December 27, 1714

Personal Information

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Sir Isaac Newton has a headache because an apple fell on my head!

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Information

Networks:Cambridge UniversityBirthday:December 25, 1642Political:UnattachedReligion:CatholicHometown:Woolsthorpe, Lincolnshire

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Networks: Cambridge University, Trinity College, Royal Mint, Royal SocietySex: MaleBirthday: December 25, 1642Hometown: Woolsthorpe, LincolnshireRelationship Status: SinglePolitical Views: UnattachedReligious Views: Catholic

Activities: Writing, Reading, Teaching, Lecturing, Investigating, Sleeping under apple trees

Interests: Optics, Space, Gravity, Education, Newtonian Mechanics, Universal

Gravitation, Mathematics, Binomial Series, Astronomy, Alchemy,

Favorite Music: Mozart, Bach, Mr. Edmonds, Mr. Nicky

Favorite Books: Philosohiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica,

De motu corporum in gyrum, Hypothesis of Light

Accomplishments: Laws of Motion, Optic Laws, Publishing Books, 2nd Scientist to be named Sir by

the Queen, Inventing Calculum

Publications

Updated last Tuesday

2 Albums

Discoveries

Updated two months ago

Contact Information

•Address: West Minster Abbey, 20 Deans Yard, London, SW1P 3PA

Phone Number: 020 74049889

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Photos of Sir Isaac Newton 9 Photos

Sir Isaac Newton’s 2 Photo Alums

Publications13 photos

Discoveries5 photos

Profile Pictures 1 photo

Sir Isaac Newton has a headache because an apple fell on my head!