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Animated History of America

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This is going to be awesome--a student-made animated history of the U.S.!

  1. Get a time period assigned to you. 
  2. You'll need the Stykz program from Coach Crump AND a Stykz folder.
    1. Get these from his flash drive, or maybe from... 
    2. The folder from "Shared Folders"--->"Crump"--->"Assignments" (drag it to your desktop)  
  3. Save your file with the number, time period name, and your name. For example, if I made the first one, it should be saved as: "01 exploration crump" 
  4. Read the "Stykz Tricks" at the bottom of this page.

 

 
 Time Period Years  Possible Ideas  Student
01 

Exploration 

 1492 - 1607  life of Native Americans, Columbus, the "Great Exchange"
02  Colonial period  1607 - 1776  Jamestown, Pilgrims, map of 13 colonies 
03  American Revolution  1776 - 1789  taxation w/out representation, Lexington/Concord, Yorktown   
04  Nation building  1789 - 1800  Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia
05  Jeffersonian democracy  1800 - 1814  rise of the "common man", Louisiana Purchase   
06  Era of Good Feelings  1814 - 1825  War of 1812, national patriotism, rise of sectionalism   
07  Jacksonian democracy  1825 - 1840  2nd rise of "common man", distrust of banks    
08 Manifest Destiny 1840 - 1848 Trail of Tears, Mexican War, California gold rush   
09 Road to the Civil War 1848 - 1861 Dred Scott decision, Bleeding Kansas,  John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry  
10 Civil War 1861 - 1865 Ft. Sumter, Gettysburg, Gen. Lee surrenders   
11 Reconstruction 1865 - 1877 13/14/15th Amendments, lockdown of the South, "carpetbaggers"   
12 Wild West 1865 - 1890 reservations and Indian Wars, Custer's Last Stand  
13 Gilded Age 1870 - 1890 Vanderbilt's trains, Carnegie's steel, Rockefeller's oil   
14 Imperialism 1890 - 1898  gaining Hawaii, Spanish-American War, gaining Philippines   
15 Progressivism 1890 - 1919  graduated income tax (16th), prohibition (18th), women's vote (19th)   
16 WWI 1917 - 1918  submarine warfare, trench warfare, Treaty of Versailles   
17 Roaring 20s 1918 - 1929  "flappers" in "speakeasies", model-T/A Ford, stock market crash   
18 Great Depression 1929 - 1941  unemployment, "boondoggling", CCC boys   
19 WWII 1941 - 1945  "island-hopping" to Japan, D-Day, atomic bomb   
20 Cold War 1945 - 1989 Korean War, McCarthyism, space race   
21 Civil rights movement 1947 - 1968  segregation, peaceful protest, MLK's speech   
22 60s culture war 1960 - 1969  "British invasion", hippies, Vietnam War protest   
23 1970s 1970 - 1979  energy problems, Watergate scandal, disco   
24 1980s 1980 - 1989  conservatism ("family values" and "just say no"), "yuppies", fall of Berlin Wall   
25 Modern times 1990 - today 9/11 and War on Terror, Pres. Obama  
26 Future

today - ?

 what do you think?  

 

"Stykz Tricks"

  1. Set up your background first. Click the background then choose a color for the ground (or sea).
  2. Draw a shape (likely a rectangle) to be the sky. 
  3. You can use the "Library" to drag stuff in, like trees or a ship.
  4. You can move stuff to the front back. For instance, if your tree is on top of your person, click the yellow dot on either the tree or person, then click "Front" or "Back" (or go to "Arrange" up top).
  5. To draw something, use the "Line" tool. Draw lines and connect the dots. 
  6. To color in something, use the "Polyfill" tool. Connect the dots to make a complete shape. It will fill in with a color (blue). To change the color, click the yellow dot, choose your color, then choose "Segments and Polyfills". Bingo.
  7. To change the color of something -- click yellow dot, click color, choose "Segments and Polyfills" to make it all one color OR choose "Segments Only" to change just the color of the lines.

 

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