San Diego Jewish Academy
9th Grade Humanities
Coat of Arms


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Rubric | Heraldry Links


Your project for the Anglo-Saxon Heroes unit is to design your personal coat of arms.

Study the attached sheet and select a shape for your shield. You will put your "motto for life" at the bottom or the top of the shield. Examples:

  1. Divide the shield into four parts. In each part you will symbolically depict one of the following:
    1. Your greatest success
    2. What you value most
    3. Your highest goal in life
    4. Your goal for humankind
  2. Use a piece of construction paper or poster board to display your coat of arms. Neatness, presentation, and creativity count.
  3. Attach a one paragraph explanation for each of the four sections symbolically depicted on the shield, and explain why you chose your "motto for life". These five paragraphs must be word processed and edited.

USE YOUR IMAGINATION AND HAVE FUN!


Heraldry Links | Top

Heraldry on the Internet - http://www.digiserve.com/heraldry/ - This site is designed to help you conduct heraldry research on the Internet.

Symbolisms of Heraldry - http://www.digiserve.com/heraldry/symbols.htm - The following symbolisms have been excerpted from W. Cecil Wade's "The Symbolisms of Heraldry or A Treatise on the Meanings and Derivations of Armorial Bearings". Published in London in 1898. Note: The site does not show the visual form of the symbols, only the meaning of each.

The Governor General of Canada - Heraldry -http://www.gg.ca/herald_e.html - Links to the history of heralry, heraldry in Canada Today, and other Canadian Coat of Arms.

The Institute of Heraldry, Department of the Army - http://www-perscom.army.mil/tagd/tioh/tioh.htm - Links to, you guessed it, heraldry of the US Army, including service and campaign medals, insignias, coats of arms, and lots more.

The Society for Creative Anachronism, Inc. http://www.sca.org/heraldry/welcome.html - The Society for Creative Anachronism (SCA) is an international organization dedicated to researching and re-creating pre-17th-century European history. All persons interested in such study are invited to use these pages to obtain information about the SCA.

If you really want to go off, feel free to add other elements that support your overall theme such as:

http://www.digiserve.com/heraldry/
http://www.gg.ca/herald_e.html
http://www-perscom.army.mil/tagd/tioh/tioh.htm


Rubric Elements

  • includes your "motto for life" and images that symbolically depict your greatest success, what you value most, your highest goal in life, and your goal for humankind (10 points)
  • shows neatness, presentation, and creativity (5 points)
  • creates powerful explanations for each of the five elements (5 points)
  • shows revision and editing for clarity and correctness of language (5 points)


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