Purpose:

• Create a map of your life to identify important places in your world.

To Do:

• What places in this country--and perhaps the world--have a personal connection to you? Where have you lived? Where have you traveled? Where do you have relatives living?
• You are going use a downloaded map to mark important places in your world. Include a key that is descriptive and uses different colors. You will probably want to include the following places on your map:
  • Place of birth, with date.
  • Places you have lived and dates you lived there.
  • States and countries you have visited (Include approximate dates you were there.)
  • Places where brothers, sisters, grandparents, aunts, uncles, stepbrothers and sisters or close friends live.
  • Other significant places--perhaps areas from which your ancestors emigrated.

Timeline:

• 2 day
  

Requirements:

• Create a header using "Format: Insert header" for the title of the document.
• Be sure to use your autobiography font.
• Create two columns and include a column break to make the columns even.
• Be sure to use text size, style, and color to set off heading and organize information.
• Use different symbols and colors for the different categories of places. Download the map and mark the place on the map with symbol and number. The key should have both symbol and number as well. Here is the minimum number of categories you may have moreL
  • Place of birth
  • Places I have lived.
  • Places I have visited
  • Names of relatives
  • Ancestors
• Use tabs to line up headings and information in each column.
• Make sure your information is complete.
• Spellcheck.

Evaluation:

• Please do the Map of Life Rubric with the person who is at the computer on the other side of the table.

Final Steps:

• Name the document "Map of Life"
• Save a copy in your "Public" folder and save a copy in your "Autobiography" folder.
• Go to the next project.