Revolution+Trading+Cards

**American Revolution Trading Cards**
====For this assignment you will be researching individuals who played significant roles in the American Revolution, locating images that depict or represent those figures, citing your sources in an MLA formatted bibliography, creating a trading card for each individual and uploading those trading cards into an online photo album.====

You will earn the following grades for this assignment:

 * ====Following directions - one daily grade====
 * ====Handwritten, paraphrased research notes - one daily grade====
 * ====Bibliography of sources - one daily grade====
 * ====Trading Cards - one test grade====

====This assignment will be due on **Thursday November 17th**. You will have some class time designated for this assignment but you may also have to do some on your own time. I will be in Lab 207 for Stretch on Mondays and Wednesdays and MacLab 102 for both A and B Stretch on Thursdays to assist.====

====**Step 1.** Research the 10 historical figures listed below to discover the __role they played in the American Revolution__ and a few details about that role. Make sure to limit your research to the topic!====

====**Individuals to research:** Abigail Adams, Wentworth Cheswell, Mercy Otis Warren, James Armistead, Bernardo de Gálvez, Patrick Henry, Haym Salomon, the Marquis de Lafayette, Thomas Paine, and John Paul Jones====


 * 1) ====Write notes on each person putting the information in your own words. (Notes will be turned in!)====
 * 2) ====Find an image of the person OR find an image that represents that person.====
 * 3) ====Save each image on a flashdrive or on your Hdrive.You MUST save the image as a __picture file__ (.jpg or .png)to be able to upload it later! **DO NOT** just copy and paste it to a document. To save it as a picture file, right click on the image and select "Save picture as...."====
 * 4) You can access your Hdrive from home by clicking here.
 * 5) You will get a warning about the secutity of the site, it is safe, you can "continue to this website"!
 * 6) Use the same Login and Password that you use at school.
 * 7) ====Create an MLA formatted bibliography to cite your sources. Use [|http://www.bibme.org]to create your bibliography.====
 * 8) ====Your final bibliography sould be a Word Document.====
 * 9) ====There are two options for your bibliography.====
 * Copy and paste the URL for the websites you use to a word document and go to [|http://www.bibme.org] after you have finished your research.
 * ===**OR**===
 * Sign up for an account at [|http://www.bibme.org] and create your bibliography as you go.



**Step 2.** Creat your trading cards. Go to the site [|http://bighugelabs.com]

 * 1) ====Scroll down to the "Trading Card" app**.** .====
 * 2) ====**You need to create your cards in Explorer**====
 * 3) ====Save each card to your Hdrive or a flashdrive.====

**Step 4.** Create a Picasa Web Album for your trading cards.

 * 1) ====Go to [] to upload your trading cards - instructions on handout.====
 * 2) ====The title of your Album should include your first initial, last name and class period. (ex. JSmith 1st)====
 * 3) ===="**Share**" your album completed album with me - brenda.nathman@gcisd.net.====

**Step 5.** Turn in to [] . Step by step instructions are on the handout below.

 * 1) ====Click on the "**turn in**" icon on the American Revolution Trading Card assignment post.====
 * 2) ====Attach the **file** of your bibliography====
 * 3) ====Add a **link** to your Picasa Web Album by copying and pasting the URL.====