Assignments for The Great Chicago Fire

	Reading Assignment	Internet Assignment	Presentation Assignment
Days 1 & 2	The Great Fire Introduction and Chapter 1 - A City Ready to Burn and Chapter 2 - Everything Went Wrong!	Old Mother Leary (or "Mrs. O'Leary's Cow" or "There'll be a Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight") http://www.niehs.nih.gov/kids/lyrics/leary.htm http://ingeb.org/songs/comealon.html Did the Cow Do It? http://www.thechicagofire.com/ The O'Leary Legend http://www.chicagohs.org/fire/oleary/index.html	Illustrate the song "Old Mother Leary". Each member takes one section of the song to illustrate. Put the illustrations together in a book.
Days 3 & 4	The Great Fire Chapter 3 - The Dogs of Hell Were Upon the Housetops and Chapter 4 - A Surging Ocean of Flame	The History Maker http://www.thehistorymakers.com/glossary/ (Scroll down to Chicago. Find the size of the city today and the population.) National Geographic http://www.nationalgeographic.com/ngkids/9809/chicago/chicago.html (Read the orange text to the right to find out what Chicago was like in 1871.) Chicago photos http://www.urban75.org/photos/chicago/ Chicago Web http://www.chiweb.com/ Venn Diagram Generator http://teachers.teach-nology.com/web_tools/graphic_org/venn_diagrams/	Chicago Then and Now Make a Venn Diagram illustrating Chicago 125 years ago and today. You may print photos to include in your diagram. Use Venn Diagram Generator to plan your diagram. The transfer information to a large poster board.
Days 5 & 6	The Great Fire Chapter 5 -Chicago is in Flames and Chapter 6 - The Ghost of Chicago	Before and After Pictures http://chicago.about.com/library/weekly/aa112100a.htm Pre Fire Landmarks http://www.chicagohs.org/fire/prefire/landmarks.html Before and After http://www.chicagohs.org/fire/ruin/before.html	Save the before and after photos to a disk. Print out the pictures. Make a chart with the illustrations showing Chicago's landmarks before and after the fire.
Days 7 & 8	The Great Fire Chapter 7 - Myth and Reality	Just for Fun Fireman Game http://www.largetech.com/Fireman/Fireman.html USFA KIDS - Games http://www.usfa.fema.gov/kids/g.html	Finish Venn Diagram, illustrations, and chart.