Children's+Book


 * 1) (doglover375) is going to create an children's story about the war of 1812 that will teach children about the untold war.
 * 2) My children's story will solve the following problem: since the war of 1812 is untold, I will teach kids about the war so they have an idea of what its about.
 * 3) My audience will experience my story through the eyes of what the war was like.


 * 1) My children's story will have the following key historical events: about different events that happened during the war of 1812
 * 2) My children's story will have the following key historical characters: indins, british, americans, and presidents.
 * 3) My children's story will have the following key historically important concrete objects: american flag
 * 4) My children's story will make the audience feel the following emotions: suspence, sad, happy
 * 5) My children's story will be credible because I will support it with the following sources: History Channel's documentory, Social Studies Book

Brainstorm -- write what each page will be about and some of the action occuring in it....then write a brief description of the picture that you will include for that page of writing. This is just the rough draft! Or, use a story board.

Page #:
Writing/Picture

1. Intro

2. Britain and France at War (shorten paragraph, add barbary states in picture)

3. Britain and France decision about imports from USA (keep picture shorten paragraph)

4. Impressment (keep paragraph but change picture "draw ships and the British forcing the Americans to serve in in the country's army")

5. Chesapeake incident (keep paragraph and picture)

6. Embargo Act (keep paragraph change picture)

7. Did the Embargo act work? (change paragraph and picture)

8. Why did British help Indian Nations? (change picture, keep paragraph)

9. Who was Tecumseh? (keep picture and paragraph)

10. What was his dream? (keep paragraph, change picture)

11. Battle of Tippecanoe (keep paragraph and change picture)

12. Impact on Tippecanoe on Tecumseh's Dream (keep paragraph and change picture)

13. War Hawks Point-of-View (change picture, keep paragraph)

14. The opposition's point-of-view (change paragraph and picture)

15. The President, the reasons, the vote (keep paragraph and change picture)

16. US at beginning of war compared to Britain

17. Privateers

18. Early Blunders(2 pages)

19. Washington, D.C. (2 muliple pages)

20. Baltimore, Ft McHenry, Francis Scott Key, etc (4-6pp)

21. Your Interpretation

22. Star Spangled Banner lyrics

23. Conclusion