Philosophers/Enlightenment assignment

  Part 1: information gathering (chart)

Gather information about the Philosophers (from your text book & the handout) and record on your data chart.  Share info with a partner or two so you have all the boxes filled in on your chart.

Part 2:  Mind Maps

Pretend you are a devoted follower of one of the Philosophers (could be the one you became an expert on or one of your choice).  Choose two of the following topics and try to reconstruct the world according to their views.  For example:  what would a school look like if Hobbes was responsible for organizing and planning it?  You may discuss this with a partner.  Make two webs/mind maps of your ideas.

1.  school

2.  places of work

3.  welfare/social programs

4.  government

5.  rights & freedoms

6.  family life

Part 3:  Statements sheet

 Go through statements from your point of view in one colour (agree/disagree) then go through the statements from the point of view of your philosopher that you are an expert on (agree/disagree **in a different colour).  (again how would you defend your philosophers point of view, ie why would they agree or disagree).  Write why under the statement.

Part 4:  written extension on philosopher

Write a description of your school, family life, society etc... as it would look if one of the philosophers were responsible for creating it.  Be sure to mention the philosopher by name, his most important idea and explain how this would effect life.

-Have a partner read your write up and provide feedback

-Create final draft and submit (**along with philosophers chart and opinion chart) by Monday.

Soc. 9: Answers to Friday 5, Feb. 20

 1. What is the enlightenment and why was it important.

-men and women discussed new ideas and solutions to social problems and politics including ideas like democracy. Influenced by American Revolution, it included many using reason to answer big questions that previously they had used religion to help answer. It was important because it provided new ideas about how government could and should be run and included many women's ideas that were published and discussed - fueling ideas for change.

2. How was the enlightenment a catalyst for the French Revolution?

-provided new ideas and hope to the average people and lower classes who despirately needed and wanted change

3. Briefly explain the political spectrum, use a diagram.

<---------------------------------I--------------------------------->

Left                                Centre                                    Right

-Left - likes change                                                    -Right - likes tradition

-L = higher taxes                                                         -R=lower taxes, less govmt intervention

-socialism                                                                    -capitalism

4. How were women involved in the French Revolution?

-talked about politics and new ideas about science and government in Salons

-marched on Versailles, stormed the palace, tried to kill the queen

5. What were the Estates General?

-a type of parliament for France where the First Estate was the clergy, Second was the nobles and the Third estate was everyone else (more bourgeoisis)

Bonus:  What was the National Assembly and what was it’s goal?

-a constitution for France so that there was more equal say with representation

Socials 9: week of Feb.17

 Tuesday:

-we reviewed major concepts so far including the political spectrum

-handed back paragraphs so people could work on final drafts

-worked on a chart on the political clubs of France

Wednesday

-introduced part 4 of Revolutions project (final part), headed to library to finish part 3 and work on 4

-in the second half - HW check on political clubs chart, reviewed this

-started the enlightenment

-completed above and shared out with the class

-started working on the philosophers chart

Friday:

-Friday 5

-Library to complete Revolutions project

Revolutions project due sometime next week....latest by Friday Feb 27

Revolutions project: Part 4

 Part 4:   Final product and Bibliography!

Create a final product where you communicate/show your learning on your topic including your evaluative question. This can be presented in a number of ways:  powerpoint, sway, poster, create a textbook page, an interactive map, diorama, model etc....

Bibliography - follow instructions on library page.  It should include a minimum of three sources (two books and one digital source/website minimum).   Your bibliography should be in Chicago format, be in alphabetical order and be on a separate page or slide.

Submit:  all notes & questions, bibliography and final product by Friday Feb. 21st

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...

Socials 9: week of Feb. 8

Due to careers day on the Wednesday we only had Socials on Monday and Tuesday.  On Monday the class went over the Friday 5 quiz and did a bit more review from this (see answers on a previous post).  

Part 2 of their revolutions project is due today.  Students will pair up with another student not doing the same revolution.  Discuss slide questions and fill in the venn diagram. See below:

We then did review as a class the slide questions.

From here we moved to discussing what the political spectrum is, Right vs Left and where different ideologies fall, we watched a video and used slides and video to add different types of monarchies and our political parties.  Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJA3EhyVPc0

Slides:  

On Tuesday we did some review of the political spectrum and then part 3 of the Revolutions project was introduced.  We went over these slides to understand the three main types of questions in order to help with what a research question is and headed to the library to work on our written notes on our part 3 deep dive research question.

Socials 9: Revolutions project PART 3

 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...

Answers to Friday 5: Feb 6th

 1.  Define democracy:

Government for the people by the people.  (Elected government/voted in by the people)

2.  What type of democracy is Canada?  What does this mean?

Canada is a representative democracy, this means we elect an MP/MLA to represent our views in parliament federally/provincially 

3. 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.

4.  Provide two 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

5.  Define colonialism:  

The policy or practice of acquiring full or partial political control over another country, occupying it with settlers, and exploiting it economically. In the process of colonisation, colonisers may impose their religion, language, economics, and other cultural practices on indigenous peoples  

Bonus:  Where did democracy originate?

Athens, Greece