Step 1:  After you have read through the WebQuest pages, think about what role sounds interesting to you.  Meet with your group members during the first assigned group time.  Each person must choose one role: the woman, the large landowner, the farmer, the artisan, or the slave.  Two people in a group may not choose the same role, but not all roles will be taken when you are done.   

After you have chosen what colonist you want to write about, each group member must choose what role in the book publishing you will perform.   Again, they are:

• The editor: This person will take the first printed draft of the book and, using what you have learned about proofreading, look for punctuation, grammar, or other mistakes and suggest corrections.
• The cover artist: This person will design the cover for the book, including on it the title, authors, and date. 
• The book binder: This person will go to the computer lab, print the final copy, and bind it together on the binding machine.
• The map maker: This person will draw the colonies’ outline on poster paper and color it in.  The rest of your group members will participate in adding symbols to it later.

Step 2: Write each person’s name on a piece of paper.  Next to it, write the  name of the colonist they will be researching, and what book publishing team member they want to be.  Turn this paper in to your teacher by the end of the first in-class group time.

Step 3: You will be given individual computer time.  During this, visit your colonist’s WebQuest page and research.  This will be your process page, and will have lists of websites for you to visit. Visit  the websites listed to answer as many of the questions on the page as you can.  If you find a lot of details to use that aren’t in the question list, add them! 

Step 4: Take your list of questions with you to your next library period, where you will be required to find at least one book on your topic and answer more of your questions.  As homework, you will have to write a rough draft (a “sloppy copy”) of your character’s Who’s Who? page to turn in.  For your Who's Who? page, you will take the information from the questions and turn it into paragraph format. Your teacher will provide you with the deadline for this part of the project.

Step 5: You will be given computer time to type up your Who’s Who page.  Add either a clip art picture, a computer illustration you have made, or picture you have found in your research to your page, and save it.  Print out one copy.

Step 6: During your second in-class group time, read each other’s Who’s Who? pages.  Decide what order you will put them in and put them in the folder you will be given in that order.  Give the folder to whoever the editor is.  The editor will go through and make his or her corrections.  Whoever is assigned as the artist will begin to work on a cover that must contain (at the minimum): The book’s title, (“Who’s Who in the Colonies,”) all of the group member’s names, and the date (December 14^th, 2007).

Step 7: The first copy of the book will be handed in by the assigned due date.  These will be posted in class. 

Step 8: During the third in-class group time, the mapmaker will draw an outline of the colonies (including the Mid-Atlantic, Southern, and New England colonies).  During this group session, each group member will make some type of symbol to place on the map showing where their colonist lives or is settled.  All group members will help color in the map and add lakes, rivers, and boundaries.  You will be given enough time during this group session to finish your map.

Step 9: As a group, you will hang your map in the place designated for you. 

Step 10: The person assigned as the book binder will print the final copy of the book.  You will go with your teacher during an assigned time to the binding machine to put your book and the cover together. 

Step 11: All of your hard work has paid off, and it’s time for your big debut!  During a time designated by your teacher, you will take turns reading from your book to your first audience…your classmates! Each person will use the skills they have learned about speaking in front of audiences for their storytelling to make it interesting and exciting.  During your individual presentation, you will be graded on your speaking skills, so practice, practice, practice! 

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Some of the web pages you will visit are from "Primary Sources."   This means that they were written by someone who lived at the time. They may be tricky to read!  Feel free to ask for help, or use some of the resources below to help with any new words!

Some helpful links while you are working:

Roget's Thesaurus...for help with writing your Who's Who?  colonist page.

Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary...in case you get stuck on a word while doing your research, and you can't solve it using context clues, this will help!

Encyclopedia Brittanica...In case you want to do a little *extra* research on the web! (Also, try MSN Encarta on the Web)

Colonial Williamsburg...This is used as a link in almost all of the colonist's pages above.   But explore yourself to find extra tidbits!