Slide 2:
? To present a chronological sequence of related events along a drawn line To enable the reader to quickly understand how the events might impact one another event. ? ? A fast 'snapshot' of time, people and events
Slide 3:
1. Choose the length of time required for the timeline? 1980?
1990?
2000? 1900
Slide 4:
2. Choose the type of line
required
Slide 5:
3. Enter the most significant dates on the timeline 1955
1956
1957
1958
1959
1960
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4. Provide facts and information of people or events which occurred on the specified date The 26-year-old King leads boycott of
segregated Montgomery buses, gains national reputation.
King’s House is Bombed U.S.
Supreme Court ruling prompts
Montgomery to desegregate buses.
King helps found the Southern
Christian Leadership Conference
(SCLC)
Writes Stride Toward Freedom, about
the bus boycott
Visits India to study nonviolence and
civil disobedience.
Joins his father as co-pastor of
Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta. 1955
1956
1957
1958
1959
1960
Slide 7:
February 12,
1809 Abraham Lincoln Timeline Marries Mary Todd November 6,
1860 Lincoln Re-elected Lincoln dies
from gunshot wound Born in Kentucky November 4,
1842 Lincoln elected
16th President November 8,
1864 April 15,
1865
Slide 8:
YOUR TIMELINE You had the chance to be in class with the greatest Social Studies Teacher ever. Mr. Craig Current Date