If you could take someone to dinner...

                          who would you choose?

This online educational project is based on a children's game, where they ask each other, if you could take 3 people to lunch or dinner, who would your choose? 

With this version, students are encouraged to also choose three people.  One should be a legendary or dramatic figure, such as Shakespeare, Harry Potter, or Joan of Arc.  Another should be a personal hero, such as Daniel Radcliffe(the actor that portrays Harry Potter), Sammy Sosa, or Yuri Gagarin.  The last one will be a local hero.

The students will write stories about their three guests.  Each story should be done in the 5 paragraph essay style (this can be modified for younger students).   They should have their resources cited, with a minimum of 5 resources (at least two of these should be books).  The local hero story is a class project that will be turned into a web page, and the link submitted to the "Take Someone to Dinner" project.

Students, teachers and schools are also encouraged to have a "Take Someone to Dinner" program where they actually take someone to dinner, perhaps a special dinner for local heroes, such as fireman or policeman.  They could have a dinner for an imaginary guest, such as General Henry Shelton Sanford (founder of Sanford, Fl who lived in the 1800's) and the proceeds sent to a local charity, or used to buy something for the school.

LAST UPDATE: 01/17/04