Create a time line of Jefferson's life highlighting significant events and dates.  Reference Jefferson's biography as well as your own research.  

Create a time line of Napoleon's life highlighting significant events and dates.  Reference Napoleon's biography as well as your own research.  

Using these timelines of Jefferson and Napoleon, are there any likely periods of time that the two men would have had the opportunity to meet?  List those dates.  On what occasions might they have met?

Using the images of typical French and American scenes from the Napoleon and Jefferson years, write a description of France and a description of America.  Do additional research and include in your description land regions, agricultural products, and other physical features of each country.

France
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America

Create a diorama of a French city.

Create a diorama of an French countryside.

Create a diorama of an American city.

Create a diorama of an American countryside.

France was (and is) the largest country of Western Europe.  It ranks second to Russia in land area.  Visit a website on France or use the encyclopedia to determine France's land area in square miles.

What was the land area in square miles of the United States in 1800?

What was the land area in square miles of the United States in 1803 with the addition of the Louisiana Purchase?

France was what % of the United States land area in 1800?

France was what % of the United States land area in 1803 with the addition of the Louisiana territory?

Frances is what % of the United States land area today excluding Alaska and Hawaii?

Using the census chart below, determine the population of France in 1801.  How does that compare to the population of the United States in 1800?  Which country has the most population?  What is the percentage difference?  Using the chart, compare other census years.  What observations can you make based on the population of each country?

Create charts to illustrate the above population information, comparing the United States to France

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Choose one of the following individuals to research and make an oral presentation to the class.  Include in your report the individual's relationship with Thomas Jefferson.

George Wythe	Peyton Randolph	Peter Jefferson	William Small	Albert Gallatin

Label a map of Europe with the following: Corsica, Great Britain, France, Paris, Italy, Russia, Spain, Holland, Naples, Atlantic Ocean, English Channel, Mediterranean Sea, Strait of Gibraltar

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Current event:  What is the EU (European Union)?  What country began negotiations in October 2005 to join the EU?  What is that country's status?  Link: http://www.euractiv.com/en/enlargement/eu-turkey-relations/article-129678

On the United States map, label the areas owned by the United States in 1803.

Once Napoleon began his rule as Emperor, he established a family coat of arms.  Using the image of the coat of arms below, find the following symbols (label the provided worksheet with the symbols):

Eagle Imperial Mantle Bee Hand of Justice Imperial Crown Sceptre Chain of the Legion d'Honneur (legion of honor)

Discuss in class what each symbol might have meant to Napoleon.

Students should design a family coat of arms using symbols that are appropriate to their lives.  Students should write a description of their coat of arms explaining the symbols they selected.

Using the images below of Napoleon's family, create a family tree (include full names and dates of birth/death).

Joseph	Elisa	Napoleon	Marie-Louise
Napoleon II	Letizia	Lucien	Caroline	Charles
Louis	Pauline	Jerome	Josephine

Using the images of Napoleon's family, place them on the map in this worksheet to indicate which country/region they had title to.  Which titles did Napoleon bestow on family members?

Current Event:  Thomas Jefferson wrote of his William and Mary professor William Small 

"It was my great good fortune, and what probably fixed the destinies of my life that Dr. Wm. Small of Scotland was then professor of Mathematics, a man profound in most of the useful branches of science, with a happy talent of communication, correct and gentlemanly manners & an enlarged & liberal mind.  He, most happily for me, became soon attached to me & made me his daily companion when not engaged in the school; and from his conversation I got my first views of the expansion of science & of the system of things in which we are placed."

Click here to discover how the College of William and Mary obtained an 18th century oil portrait of Dr. Small.  Research how the portrait will be conserved and how long it will take.

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