The Time of My Life

This project is one of self-awareness, based on the people and experiences that have molded you into the individual you arenow and a reflection of what you foresee for your future. This scrapbook will be an excellent memoir for you and your parents to treasure.

  1. General Requirements
  2. Size of project will be 12 x 12. Buy a scrapbook or make your own. If you would prefer to use a photo album with acetone page covers, you will need to add an additional page for normal page adjustments since the size will be smaller.
  3. Cover of project should reflect the title of your book. You may choose to use the first page of your scrapbook as your cover page.
  4. Title page should contain three sections evenly spaced over the page.

1.Title of Project

2.Name of Class

Class period

School

Teacher

3.Student’s name

Date project is due

  1. Required Contents
  2. Two page spread of a photo collage of you from birth to present. You do not need to cut pictures if you would prefer not to.
  3. Two pages for a family tree. Go back as far as relatives you can remember. Use pictures if available. Tell about any famous relatives you have or interesting family history.
  4. Two pages for each school year beginning with kindergarten or first grade. Write two or more paragraphs about each grade. Include school attended, name of teacher and anything that will help recapture that particular year. Use report cards, pictures, illustrations, awards, a prom invitation, a speeding ticket, a letter of acceptance or any item that holds special memories of that year. Do this for each grade level through the grade you are currently now in. As you get to the last years, you may have more than two pages per year if you wish. Be sure to label each year. As you decide on material to include in your pages, try to choose items that reflect your personality, specific interests and talents, turning points in the direction of your life, and people who have influenced you. (if you do not have memorabilia, just write more about what you remember or use drawings for illustrations.)
  5. Design a coat of arms for you. Include your personal motto. Explain why you used certain colors, designs, etc. on your coat of arms.
  6. Write a one page (at least 5 paragraphs) biography of one of your parents.
  7. Choose an author with whom you like to spend an evening. Why did you choose this particular author? What would you discuss?
  8. You are given an opportunity to leave a time capsule. What three items would you leave as a statement about life in the early twenty-first century? Explain your choices.
  9. You must answer the following questions: Explain why to each of them. Label each response clearly.
  10. If you could, in retrospect, change one thing about your childhood, what would it be?
  11. If you could permanently alter one thing about your physical appearance, what would you change?
  12. If you could have the starring role in one film already made, which movie would you pick?
  13. If you could have witnessed one event in history, what would you want to have seen?
  14. If you could have been the author of any single book already written, which book would you want to have penned?
  15. If you could forever eliminate one specific type of prejudice from the earth which would it be?
  16. If you could have composed any single piece of music that already exists, which would you choose?
  17. If you had to choose the single most valuable thing you ever learned, what would it be?
  18. If you had to choose the title of your biography, what would it be?
  19. if you could have a romance with any fictional character from a novel or play, who would it be?
  20. If you could foresee a single day of your future in its entirety, what date would you select?
  21. If you could have the mind of someone from history and remain in your own body, whose would you choose?
  22. if you could be back in time, as yourself, to live for one year at any point in history, what year would you choose, and where would you go?
  23. If you could have changed one thing about your parents while you were a child, what would it have bee?
  24. If you could have been the author of any one quotation from history, what words would you like to have uttered?
  25. The last two pages should predict your future ten years from now, your short term and long term plans for a job or career, leisure time activities, travel, and plans for a family. Choose five friends, include a photo of each and predict their futures in ten years.

You may add any other items that reflect you and your interest.

SCRAPBOOKS ARE NOT ACCEPTED AFTER THE DUE DATE!!!!!!!! 5-29(A)==5/30(B)