All About Influential Leaders | January Writing Packet

This is a January Writing Packet for students.

This writing packet focuses on people born in January. Some of these people may be familiar to students and others may be unfamiliar. Students will get to learn about these important figures and apply their knowledge through writing. There are 2 PDFs included.

One of the PDFs is a set of Note Taking Foldables.

The teacher and students can:

1.     Choose a HISTORY MAKER to research by reading a book, watching a video, or using Pebble Go.

2.     Print HISTORY MAKER page front and back.

3.     Take notes and color.

4.     Optional: Glue into journal for future reference.

The biographies included in the Note Taking Foldable packet are:

1. Lin Manuel Miranda

2. 2. Ruth Asawa

3. 3. Martin Luther King Jr.

4. 4. Franklin D. Roosevelt

5. 5. Maria Tallchief

As students complete their research, they will be able to use these foldables to take notes along the way. You can encourage students to highlight things such as birthdays, their accomplishments, their values, their family, etc.

The second PDF is a Mini Chapter Book packet. Students will be able to apply what they learned during the Note Taking process and develop their own chapter book biographies.

The individuals included in this PDF are:

1. Benjamin Franklin

2. 2. Betsy Ross

3. 3. Jackie Robinson

4. 4. Elvis Presley

5. 5. Alexander Hamilton

6. 6. Lin Manuel Miranda

7. 7. Muhammed Ali

The teacher and students will:

Choose what level of writing paper you want to use.

Choose the history maker of study.

Print history maker cover and chapter 1 page back to back.

Print chapters 2 and 3 back to back.

Fold and staple. 6

Best if used with note taking pages.

2 PDFs with 10 pages and 20 pages - ready to print