Today we went over our Friday 5's. I went on a diatribe about using the blog when you are away or sick. Students then worked on completing part one and two of Revolutions project. Recipes due on Wednesday. Wednesday we are doing some presenting of our revolutions recipes and working on part 3.
Find the link to part 3 here.
Tuesday: back to the enlightenment and maybe some work on political ideologies.
Part 3: Research & Evaluative Questions (Zooming in)
Decide on one part of your revolution that you want to learn more about. Come up with a research question.
A research question is one that your know you will be able to find the answer to in books etc… A “Literal Question” ** Remember Grade 8??? See slides 3-6 here.
For example for the French Revolution: Who was Robespierre; what was his role in the Revolution?
You will then continue to take notes & research to find the answer. Once you have the answer, we will help you to create an “evaluative question” to answer and you will move to Part 4. I will give you a handout on evaluative questions but essentially it is an open ended question that helps you to evaluate/synthesize and have an opinion on your research.
Part 2: Recipe for a Revolution (civil war etc...)
If a revolution was a cake, what would the recipe look like?
How long would the the prep time be? 5, 10, 50 years?
What about the ingredients? A harsh ruler? Lack of freedom? Poverty?
What would the directions look like?
Create a recipe card that reflects your answers to the above….
Prep time: time revolution/rebellion was building
Ingredients: key players and events
Directions: what happened
Cook time: length of the fighting, revolution
End Product: final result
Part 1: Basic Research
Goal: to gain understanding of a turbulent time in history by researching a revolution, a rebellion or a civil war and to understand how it effected history or changed the course of history. Look at how it impacted the time period and present day (lasting effects)
Part 1: Choose a revolution, rebellion or civil war (examples below) that interests you.
-Do some initial research using the 5W+H format (who, what, where, when, why and how)
Some examples of these questions might be: Who was involved? Who started the revolution? Why were they rebelling? etc...
-Ensure you are using credible sites and information and keeping track of these sites for your bibliography.
***You must take good notes these will be part of your mark.
Here are some examples:
-American Revolution, French Revolution, Russian Revolution, Peasant Revolt (England), Slave rebellion, Prussian uprising, Industrial Revolution, Red River Rebellion, Glorious Revolution, Serbian Revolution, Haitian Revolution, Mexican war for independence....etc...
1. Describe the enlightenment as a time period.
-The enlightenment was a time of new ideas and thinking in science, philosophy and politics. It influenced new inventions and ways of thinking about government.
2. One example of a philosopher from the period of the enlightenment.
Locke, Hobbes, Montesquieu, Voltaire, Rousseau
3. Define democracy:
Government for the people by the people. (Elected government/voted in by the people)
4. Differentiate between the two types of monarchs.
Absolute Monarch = a monarch with absolute authority and power that they felt were vested in them by God
Constitutional Monarch = a monarch who followed the rules of the land kept in the constitution made by the people in the kingdom/land.
5. What were some of the causes of the French Revolution?
-new ideas from the enlightenment, bad leadership, huge debt of the country, American Revolution, rising cost of bread, poverty, social inequality
