THIS IS TOO MUCH…WHERE DO I START???
This project seems overwhelming…but, it really won’t be that bad.  Here are a few suggestions to get you started.

1. A time period must be assigned to your group. The time periods are as follows:1800-1849, 1850-1899,1900-1949, 1950-1969, 1970-present.
2. Everyone must read a book, so start finding a book today! That way during reading time, you can read your book for this project, and your weekly journals can count as chapter projects.  Wow, your teacher is nice! This book can be from the city library. Ask the librarian to help you find a book from your period. Non-fiction or fictioin books are aceptable.
3. Work on "Required For Each Group". Decide how you are going to break-up the points for your group and begin working.
4. Decide on the who is going to work on Other Topics. Are these projects going to be individual, group or a combination of both?
5. If you start researching the military wars/conflicts/operations from your time period, you will no doubt be able to find out who the leaders and government officials were.  Use this to your advantage for finding both sets of information.
6. Save the cooking.  Don’t worry about cooking a dish yet, everyone will be cooking a dish for the same day.  We will let you know what day that is later, but don’t worry about finding a recipe just yet.
7. Think about an invention you could possibly make, but don’t decide until after our fieldtrip (date to be determined).  We are going to see a lot of great inventions at the Baaken Museum or other, and it might spark an idea.
8. Relax.  Remember to work together, but also divide up the work.  Everyone must attempt to contribute 120 points of their own work.  20 points alone are from reading the book.  So that leaves at least 100 points for each person to do on their own or earn with group work.  Though this is a group project; however, individuals will not get penalized if their group members are not helping. 
9. Groups that have work cohesively, will recieve 10 points extra credit for each person in the group. If one person does not fit the word cohesive- noone in that group will recieve the the extra points. These points are extra bonus and determined by the teacher and will not be argued.
10. When shooting for points, keep in mind that few people received all points for each project so you must plan to secure more than the 120 points for the minimum of an A-. So do more projects!
11. There is no such thing as I'm done with this project. "I only want to shoot for a C. If that is the case, the teacher reserves the right to change the point values for an earning an A, B, C, D or F.