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Extra Credit Opportunity

I will add seven points (one full letter grade) to a test or other assignment of your choice each time you complete the following assignment:

Learn about local history and culture and earn some extra credit in the process.
  1. Call ahead to ensure that the location you plan to visit will be open.
  2. Visit one of the locations listed below.
  3. Take a "selfie" with the location in the background or keep some evidence (pamphlet, ticket stub, etc.) to prove to me that you actually visited the location.
  4. Write a couple paragraphs on what you learned.  If the location is related to a topic, event or person we have already studied, be sure to give due consideration to our classroom lessons in your written response.
  5. Finally, submit your work via the form at the bottom of this page.  Attach your work using the "Browse" button.
  6. Limit one per week.

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Locations

Historic Hopewell Foundation

Weston Manor & Grant's Headquarters at City Point.  In Hopewell.

Petersburg National Battlefield

Site of one of the most important siege battles of the Civil War.  Just south of Hopewell, Virginia.

Museum of the Confederacy

Civil War history from a southern perspective.  In Richmond.

Edgar Allan Poe Museum

The 19th century master of the macabre.  In Richmond.

Tredegar Iron Works

Interpreting the Civil War from Union, Confederate, and African American perspective.  In Richmond.

Valentine Richmond History Museum

Focuses on American urban and social history.

Virginia Holocaust Museum

Teaching tolerance through education.  In Richmond.

Richmond Peace Education Center

Building just, inclusive and nonviolent communities through education and action

Agecroft Hall

Reconstruction of an Elizabethan estate.  In Richmond.

Virginia Aviation Museum

Tthe spectacular SR-71 Blackbird; 38 historic, vintage aircraft; reproductions of the Wright brothers’ kite, gliders and famous 1903 Flyer.  In Richmond.

Virginia Museum of Fine Arts

Art from all around the world.  In Richmond.

Children's Museum of Richmond

For younger students.  So take your younger brothers, sisters and cousins with you.  In Richmond.

Colonial Williamsburg

Living history at the capital of colonial Virginia.

Historic Jamestowne

The first permanent English settlement in North America.

John Tyler House at Sherwood Forest

Home of our tenth president.  In Charles City, Virginia.

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    Local Links Extra Credit

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