Handout A: Meeting the Framers – A Pre-Convention Social

Handout A: Meeting the Framers—A Pre-Convention Social

Suggestions/Expectations for Business Card Information

• Name
• Address (Students may exercise creative license if necessary here)
• Occupation
• Significant affiliations or titles
• Contributions during Revolutionary Era
• Historical Significance
• Most noteworthy characteristics/interesting facts
• Quotes

Requirements

• Appearance
  • Neat, accurate, free from error
  • Size: 3×5 inches
  • Typed
• Content
  • Documentation on the back (standard bibliography references, along with student’s standard heading)
  • Information above and beyond textbook references; demonstration of serious research
  • Creative, original presentation (may include graphics, slogans, etc.)
  • Overall effect enhances long-term learning

Ratings

• 5: Exemplary
• 4: Effective
• 3: Adequate
• 2: Minimal
• 1: Unsatisfactory