Project Part D - What is the evolutionary history of your invented species?

Hey All-Stars!

On Monday in class you will be given a sheet that will help you do Project Part D.
On Thursday, you must turn in Projects Part A-D and a works cited. On Friday, you will turn in a project reflection.

Here is some additional information from Project Part D.

There are 3 components of this part of the project.
1) Completed evolutionary tree worksheet
2) Trait list of traits of the ancestral species and your species that allowed the ancestors of your species to survive, reproduce, and evolve. *illustrate for extra credit
3) An epic poem, comic strip, or story telling how the ancestor of your species evolved into your invented species.

Here is a complex evolutionary tree showing how many species came to be:

Here is an evolutionary tree that has a more similar set up to yours:

Here is a worksheet explaining epic poetry.
If you choose to do an epic poem, you'll start with a stanza (4 short lines) introducing your species and its ancestors.
You will jump back in time to the ancestral species of your species.
The challenge your hero faces is evolving. What gets in the way of that? Asteroids? Pollution by humans? Plate tectonics?
What saves your species? As in, what traits help it survive? If you want to, you can personify those traits. For example, "The Snufalaughagous was sad/ but Laughter came and it realized the volcano was not so bad".
Conclude your poem with your species living happily ever after (or not) in its biome.
*illustrating the borders colorfully may earn extra credit.

If you chose to do a comic strip or story, cover the same ideas just in a different format.

I can't wait to see what you create and to learn more about your awesome species!!

Ms. Nickel