Extra Credit opportunity for History

If you complete the following project, its grade will replace your lowest exam grade.

1. Choose one of the following dates in Mexican or world history.
2. Get your teacher’s approval for the date you picked.
3. Create a visual presentation that represents the date you chose. The presentation must be visible from half of a meter away and must be no larger than a sheet of posterboard (cartulina).
4. Essays, outlines, note cards, powerpoints, or any other form of written material will NOT be accepted for this project. The idea is to be creative!
5. Should you like to get extra credit twice, you may choose a second date upon completion of the first project. Your teacher must approve the second date, and you must use a different type of presentation the second time.

Ideas:

• Commemorative stamp
• Collage (pictures/graphics collected and pasted in a creative fashion)
• Newspaper headlines with black-and-white photos
• Mural-style hand-drawn pictures
• Whatever else you can come up with (as long as it sticks on paper and doesn’t involve paragraphs)!

List of Dates:

3200 BC – Invention of writing in Mesopotamia (Sumer)

486 BC Birth of Buddha

3 BC Birth of Jesus Christ

AD 476 Fall of the Roman Empire

AD 570 Birth of Muhammad

1325-1350 – The Aztecs founded Tenochtitlan

1492 Christopher Columbus discovers the New World

1519-1521 -Hernán Cortés conquered the Aztec empire for Spain.

1455 First book printed with moveable type: Johannes Gutenberg

1821 -Mexico won independence.

1910- Revolution of Mexico