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Pick a Theme, and get started. Here are your tools. You can only upload 8 images so PLAN carefully. Save often, and replace new version with the old one by using the exact same name. You can add videos, but I couldn’t get them to play.

Use the undo and redo buttons

Decide if you want portrait or canvas by

changing this setting

Finally click on “publish” and choose the settings to the

Right. Right click (2-finger click Mac) and “save image as”

Email me the attached jpg with

Your name, period and date in

The subject field, and the body.

Name your PiktoGram with your name and period.

Instructions for Piktochart

Using any of the following websites (you also try to use the apps for the iPad from the App Store, but I haven’t actually tested them: Piktogram, Infographics, Info.Graphic, etc.).

  • Free (This one worked for me and the instructions are on the back)
  • Free

In a random draw you will be assigned one of the following chapter 1-15 topics:

Chp 01

  1. Trading Death For Food
  2. “The Gold is Over There, Mr. Conquistador”

Chp 02

  1. “My Colony Can Beat Your Colony” (from a European perspective)
  2. Transhumance, Exogamy and Tribalism (chps 2-15)
  3. Early Southern Drug Dealers

Chp 03

  1. Don’t Protest (ant), you are predestined to fail, or succeed?
  2. Utopias are never perfect (chp’s 03 and 15)
  3. Dominions Vs. Confederacies (chp 3 and 6)
  4. “A Cult is Religion you Reject”. (chp’s 3, 4, 5, and 15)

Chp 04

  1. Everything Tastes Better with Bacon (changes & continuities from Bacon to Whisky)
  2. SPEW – Oh, and slaves too. Or “Loose Ships Smell of …” “The Middle Passage”.
  3. Look at me – I just invented Grandpa”!
  4. They Weren’t Witches”!!!!

Chp 05

  1. Mudbloods Co-Mingle
  2. Guidance Counselors for Colonials
  3. Dodecahedron Trade Route(s)
  4. “Hey, Wake up Out There”. (chp’s 5 vs 15)
  5. Power of the Press (from Franklin to Zenger to Propaganda, to Sedition to Abolition).

Chp 06

  1. The Suckiness of France: Nates to Nappy
  2. War! What is it god for? (4X)
  3. For Love of Country (Mercantilism) vs. Greed (Proto-capitalism)
  4. Let’s Invent Reasons to Act Badly. E vs. I and R vs. T
  5. What’s under your Whig? (Atlanticism)

Chp 08

  1. Loyalists Leave = A of C

Chp 09

  1. Happiness Vs. Property (A of C Vs. Constitution)
  2. “Loose when IN, strict when OUT” (chp 9-15)

Chp 10

27. “Political Parties are BORING!” (1800-1840)

Chp’s 11-15

28. Jeffersonian Bondage, or at least Restraint.

  1. “If Only We Had Known: Texas, Florida and Missouri”
  2. I will nullify you for that! (all of them, starting w/ the American Revolution)
  3. The Black Friday Louisiana Purchase
  4. “O-Grab-Me!” “No! No Intercourse for you.”
  5. “War, what is it Good For?” in 1812.
  6. “The American System”, or “Capitalism Cheated”, or “Hamilton, the First Government Subsidizer”.
  7. Don’t Panic! Oh well go ahead and Panic every 25 years (1819-1836).
  8. Hamilton’s Home Boy: Marshall, Shill for Big Bidness”.
  9. The Not so Great Compromise in 1820
  10. Steal someone else’s doctrine and get your name in the text book Monroe.
  11. Smell this! No, it’s spoiled!
  12. “You Can’t Bank on it”.
  13. Market Revolution: Slavery for Poor Whites
  14. The elections of 1808-1820 and the Era of NOT so good feelings, but it looked liked they were chums.
  15. Evolving Education (chp’s 3, 4, 5 & 15)
  16. “Democracy? Yes, but who are The People?” (chp’s 3-15)

Academic content (50 pts.) Is it EDUCATIONAL, as in does the viewer learn the most important aspects of the topic?

Layout (20 pts.) The Infogram ACTUALLY works. It presents a logical series of charts/graphs/pictures AND text that LEADS the viewer to a fuller understanding of the intricacies of your topic.

Research portion (20 pts.) A works cited that includes a list of sources (5) used with proper Chicago style citation stapled to the back.

  • No more than 2 websites, and they MUST be .edu and written by a single author tied to a university.
  • Two primary sources
  • At LEAST One ACADEMIC book other than YOUR textbook(I have MANY in my classroom so this shouldn’t be a problem)

Aesthetics- (10 pts.) It follows ALL the rules of a true INFOGRAM, and therefore grabs and holds the reader’s attention