Documents of the Revolutionary Era and Contemporary Images

As a way to expand our thinking about the concepts, beliefs, and challenges of the Revolutionary Era, you will:
1- Excerpt quotations from the documents we've read
2- Find images from current events that somehow express the ideas those quotations contain
3- Assemble these into a Google Presentation (like a PowerPoint presentation) to share

Which documents?

• Patrick Henry
• Thomas Paine
• Letters between John and Abigail Adams
• The Declaration of Independence

How many quotations?

• At least ten.  They can all come from one of the documents or any combination of them

Where do I find images?  Try some of these sites

• CNN
• Time
• Reuters
• AP
• Yahoo

How do we put a Google Presentation together?

• We will give a quick demonstration of this in class
• Go to Google and sign in
• Go to "Drive" or "Documents"
• Click on "Create" and use the pull-down menu to select "Presentation"
• In this window you can cut and paste the quotations and pictures you selected above into slides
• Each side should have one quotation and one (or more) pictures)
• It will automotically save, but you should give it a name.  When you are finished you'll click on "Share" in the upper right corner.  Change the privacy setting to the middle one: "anyone who has the link."  Copy the link it provides.
• Send an e-mail to Mr. Rigler and / or Mr. Kramer with your link and the names of the people who created the presentation.