Student Project Component: CANVA

Role: You are a news reporter going back in time during the 17th century.

Task: You job is to act as a news reporter going back in time during the 17th century. While you are in the 17th century for about a month, you are to follow a colonist and observe the individual either bartering or participating in maritime commerce with an English man in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. As you go through your journey, you are to observe the different types of goods that are exchanged back and forth and create a chart with every interaction of goods exchanged. Then at the end of your journey, you will write a newsletter to the people today summarizing your experience and writing about why you think bartering or maritime commerce was so affective for colonists during the 17th century. Your newsletter is supposed to be very unique with pictures as well as adding the chart of exchanges. All of this will be done on the technology tool known as canva.com.

Audience: For people in society today unclear of the effectiveness of maritime commerce and bartering in the Massachusetts Bay Colony.

Steps for how to create a basic newsletter/ letter: 1) Write the date on the top right corner.2) A few lines down on the left you have to write who you are writing to: Dear people in

society today, .3) Written letter explaining summarizing your experience and why bartering or maritime

commerce helped the Massachusetts Bay Colony economy grow.4) When you are done writing the newsletter/letter go down to the next line and on the

right you will write Sincerely,5) Directly underneath Sincerely you will sign you name.

Steps for how to create a table:1) Select insert on word documents2) Select Table3) Click the amount of rows and columns you want: should be at least 4 columns and 3

rows.

Example: (Will also be sent in a link through email as a PDF- in folder)Log of exchanges:

June 1 st One deer skin for two mirrors.

June 5 th One beaver skin for same sized cotton fabric.

June 10 th Tobacco for two window panes.

June 15 th Five dried fish for six sterling silver pewter bowls.

June 19 th One wolf skin for one mirror.

June 21 st June 26 th June 29 th July 4 th July 9 th

Ten corn on the cobs for a roll of silk fabric.

Seven dried fish for two window panes.

Two corn on the cobs for four colored gold pewter bowls.

Three deer skins for four rolls of cotton fabric.

Seven corn on the cobs for roll of cotton fabric.

July 14 th Two dried fish for a roll of linen fabric.

July 18 th Bag of tobacco for six sterling silver pewter dishes.

July 23 rd Five dried fish for four crown gold pewter dishes.

July 27 th One deer skin for two mirrors.

Examples of Newsletters on Canva:

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Steps for Using Canva:

o Video of how to use Canva:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqYti78riU8 o Create an account (free trial): https://www.canva.com

Name Tell us what you do: Student

o Click create a design Category: use documents

o Select a template or create your owno Use the editing tools to make your newsletter unique (left heading of page)

Elements Text Background Uploads (pictures of goods) Folders

o Adjust tools by adding different font types, size, and coloro For the chart- interactions of goods exchanged:

Create chart in word documents Screenshot the table

Hold: CTRL-Shift- 4 Upload image in Canva

o Make it creative!o Share or create as PDF