Sixth Grade Calendar Assignment

Create Your Own Calendar—Based on YOUR LIFE!

Just as Kings, Emperors, Pharaohs, and religious rulers of the past changed the calendar to differently organize time, so you will create a calendar to do the same thing.

Remember why calendars were created: to mark the reigns of rulers, to keep track of plant and harvest cycles, to keep track of sacred/religious observances, and to keep track of weather and astronomical happenings.

Your calendar should equal 365 days (not every calendar has had 365 days, but it makes for a more consistent calendar), but it can have a different number of months or weeks. You need to rename the days and months (and—optionally—the seasons.) You also need to add in ten special days based on you or your life or your family. You also need to add in another ten special days which can be based on events in the larger world or other sources.

Please also illustrate your calendar with at least ten images. These can be hand-drawn, or cut-out from magazines and glued on.

You must have a version on paper to turn in to me on Friday (the day of Frigg), September 27th, 2013.