World History Baseball Card Project

•There are 52 people you need to know for the World History STAAR Exam

•You are going to make a baseball card for each person

•Create the cards in PowerPoint and when you are finished print it as a handout with 9 slides on each page

•You must include the following information on each card

          –Name

          –Years they were alive

          –2-3 sentences of why they were important

          –Picture

•Your cards do not all have to be identical in layout, you can switch it up as long as all of the required information is present

•This will count as a major grade! (= 2 Test Grades)

1.       Thomas Aquinas

2.       Archimedes

3.       William Blackstone

4.       Simon Bolivar

5.       Napoleon Bonaparte

6.       Robert Boyle

7.       John Calvin

8.       Chinese Student Protestors in Tiananmen Square

9.       Winston Churchill

10.    Copernicus

11.    Marie Curie

12.    Baron Charles de Montesquieu

13.    Thomas Edison

14.    Albert Einstein

15.    Elizabeth I

16.    Eratosthenes

17.    Galileo

18.    Mikhail Gorbachev

19.    Indira Gandhi

20.    Mohandas Gandhi

21.    Hammurabi

22.    Adolf Hitler

23.    Thomas Hobbes

24.    Thomas Jefferson

25.    Justinian

26.    John Locke

                27.    Las Madres e la Plaza de Mayo

28.    Nelson Mandela

29.    Karl Marx

30.    Golda Meir

31.    Benito Mussolini

32.    Isaac Newton

33.    Louis Pasteur

34.    Pope John Paul II

35.    Pythagoras

36.    Ronald Reagan

37.    Oscar Romero

38.    Franklin D. Roosevelt

39.    Jean Jacques Rousseau

40.    Natan Sharansky

41.    Adam Smith

42.    Joseph Stalin

43.    Mother Teresa

44.    Margaret Thatcher

45.    Hideki Tojo

46.    Queen Victoria

47.    Voltaire

48.    Lech Walesa

49.    James Watt

50.    William Wilberforce

51.    Woodrow Wilson

52.    Mao Zedong

DUE: May 2nd or 3rd in class or finish at home 

and turn it in May 6th or 7th!