World History II:

Unit 1 Project Guideline

Objective: To create a self-directed project which demonstrates your skills and learning in
the course.
Background

The project must demonstrate students understanding of the contributions of Unit 1s focus on
how after the fall of Rome in the 5th century, Europe entered about 1,000 years of relative
decline known as the dark ages or Medieval Era, which was marked by warfare, disease and
feudalism, and how the resistance to its negative influences led to the Enlightenment and
beyond.

Christianity, which had gained official support in the Roman Empire, contributed to spread in
influence, and was both a source of positive inspiration in European society but also led to war
and was abused by authorities in the Church to increase their power.

As frustration grew with the inherent inequalities of the medieval feudal system, significant
portions of the hierarchy of peasants, knights and nobles led to resistance and the quest to
reintroduce some of the nobler, democratic ideals of ancient Greece and Rome and expand on
them in the Age of Enlightenment, Scientific Revolution and the beginnings of the modern era

What You Have to Do

DO NOT SKIP ANY STEPS! DO NOT LOOK AHEAD! TAKE IT ONE STEP AT A TIME!

Step 1 - Forming a group... Or not?

Individual Learning or Learning Teams: Students must choose to work individually or build
learning teams consisting of 2-4 students (subject to change due to the scale of your project).

Step 2 - Selecting your topic

The project must demonstrate the connections between a revolution of your choice, two
historical figures, and three ideologies/movements from the following table:

Revolutions People Ideologies and Movements

The Glorious Revolution Niccolo Machiavelli Rationalism

The American Revolution Martin Luther Machiavellianism
The French Revolution Immanuel Kant Scientific Methods
John Locke Hedonic Calculus
Thomas Hobbes
Lockeanism
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Hobbesianism
Voltaire
Molly Wollstonecraft Colonization
New World Uprisings
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Step 3 - select the type of project
Create a product which demonstrates essential understandings from Unit 1 as well as the
concepts and theories learned in the unit.

How will I demonstrate what I learned?

What kind of product do you want to create?
Criteria:
o The product must clearly demonstrate the goal of this course and the
connection between a revolution, historical people, and
ideologies/movements listed in the table on the first page.
o The product must be able to present itself (without you there to explain
it).
o The product must be appropriate for the number of students in the
group.
o The project must demonstrate at least two of the schools Expected
School-wide Learner Outcomes (ESLOs).
o See the RUBRIC for more detail
Choose one from the following list:
o Short film (5-10 minute)
o Fiction
o Comics
o Music Video
o Academic Essay
o Game
o Panel Discussion
o Debate Show
o Other (please propose to your teacher and wait for approval)
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Step 4 - Create a proposal according to the given template and rubric.

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Group Member(s): _Nont, Ping______________________________________
Product Title: The Revolution that Forged one of the Biggest Country.
Type of Product: _Infographic______________________________________

Your Selected Revolution, Historical Figures, and Ideologies/Movements:

(From the list in Step 2)

American Revolution / John Locke, Jean-Jacques Rousseau / Colonization,

Lockeanism, New World Uprising

Research Questions (at least 2-3 questions):

(What do you hope to learn? Make sure it is not straightforward/simple. Look at the rubric.)
- What happened to tea taxes and taxes in general? (Boston Tea Party)
- What will happen if America did not win the fight with England?
- What will happen if France did not support American from rebelling England?

Product Description:
(Make sure it is clear what the product will look like, what it will include, and how it will be
organized.)

-We will do an infographic with a timeline on what happened, how did it happen, and
also why did people do it. We will also include diagrams and description as well.
-Information about Lockeanism, Colonization (England taking over America) and New
World Uprising events. There will also be some separate choice that show the result if
American chose to do something else rather than what is recorded.
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How the product demonstrates the connection between your selected topics and the
goals/essential understandings of this unit:
It will show that we understood the information/event clearly and we can try to come up
with a statement about what will happen if it did not happen. It will also show and help
us learn about how the middle ages develop into the modern world/new world uprising.

ESLOs:
(What ESLOs does your project relate to and how?)
It is related to Strategic Learner because we planned what we are going to do before
we start doing our project. We also use technology to find information and understand
them. It is also related to Innovative Thinkers because we use the information we got
from our research and try to see what would happen if a certain event did not occur.
We also designed the product to be original and unique using our own ideas combined
with our research questions.

Ping: My learning strategy is mostly visual and sound and I am very bad at reading so I
prefer looking at mind map and listen to YouTube video. I can better find the main idea
of from listening and looking at the picture. I start from mindono which is a mind map
website that give me briefly about what is important about this revolution.

VARK Learning Strategies:

(What is your individual VARK learning style and how do you plan to do your research based on
the style?)
Nont: My learning strategy is mostly visual and sound so I would watch videos on
YouTube and some reading/pictures to get a more clearer understanding. I dont really
prefer reading since I can get distracted pretty easily. I will start with watching John
Greens videos on CrashCourse since he makes his video pretty interesting and also
talks really clearly and the videos are easy to understand.

Ping: My learning strategy is mostly visual and sound and I am very bad at reading so I
prefer looking at mind map and listen to YouTube video. I can better find the main idea
of from listening and looking at the picture.
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Starter sources/references:
(Sources that you will begin with in your research for your project.)
Crash Course American Revolution
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlUiSBXQHCw&list=PLCfksYlJUAFxVAdthlX7ZV_lw4xX0
2EIx

American Revolution History

http://www.history.com/topics/american-revolution/american-revolution-history

Overview of the American Revolution - Digital History

http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/era.cfm?eraID=3

July 4th Nightmare: What If America Lost the War For Independence?
http://nationalinterest.org/feature/july-4th-nightmare-what-if-america-lost-the-war-
independence-13253

Learning Plan:
(This is a daily plan of what you will do each day for the rest of the quarter.)

What You Plan to Do Things to Due Date

Submit

Day 1 Find a group mate - -

Day 2 Discuss about what topics we - -

want to do

Day 3 Find brief information about each - -

topic/selection (revolution,
people, movements, etc.)

Day 4 Find brief information about each - -

topic/selection (revolution,
people, movements, etc.)

Day 5 Do the proposal - -

Day 6 Finish the proposal Proposal 21th August

Day 7 Start researching about the - -

American Revolution (Its
information, what happened,
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why, etc.) Also find information

about colonization on the way.

Day 8 Continue researching about - -

American Revolution and try to
summarize everything and write
down information down in our
own words

Day 9 Research and understand about - -

John Locke and Lockeanism.
Also write down information.
Also research about Rousseau (if
have time).

Day 10 Try to connect everything that - -

weve researched together and
start planning about our product.

Day 11 Draft out the product and see if it - -

works or not

Day 12 Start doing the product (drawing, - -

sketching, etc).

Day 13 Try to finalize the product - -

Day 14 And some things / drawings / - -

decorations / information to the
product if needed.

Day 15 Product 8th September

Presentation

Day 16 Learning Day 1 of that

Records Week

Day 17 Work on reflection - -

Day 18 Work on reflection - -

Day 19 Work on reflection - -

Day 20 Reflection 21st September

Note: We will do learning records every time we do something related to this project
such as finding information, planning, researching, doing our product, etc.
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First Mind Map:

(Here I would like you to brainstorm everything you know about your topic(s) before even
beginning to work on the project. It does not matter if you do not know much but try to add as
much information as possible.)

American Revolution

causes

Important Event John Locke

contracts

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Boston Tea Party Lockeanism

Want freedom/wanted to be
American (rights)
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Unit 1 Project Guideline

Step 5 - Create learning records according to the given template and rubrics.
Each day, you should set a goal on what you want to achieve (remember that you have
about 30 minutes or less) at the beginning of the project time. Then you should
summarize what you have learnt each day and reflect on whether you have completed
your goal or not. Then write a short note on what you would like to do next class.
Here is the template for each record:
Date: (date of the class)
Goals/Questions: (what do you plan to do in the time provided / what questions
are you trying to answer) - this is done at the beginning of project time
Notes: (notes from sources) - this is done during project time
References: (All sources that you used should be listed here) - this is done during
project time
Reflection: (What did you do? Did you do well? Did you complete your goals,
why or why not? Were you able to answer your questions for the day, why or
why not? Did new questions arise? What will you do next?) - this is done at the
end of project time

Step 6 - Write a reflection (guide questions will be given).

The reflection should be a minimum of 3 paragraphs. Before you begin, you should
think about and answer each of the following questions:
o What were my successes?
o What were my failures?
o What can I learn from my mistakes?
o What are my strengths as a learner?
o What are my weaknesses (areas for growth) as a learner?
o What could I do differently next time?
o What did I learn about myself as a learner?
o What did I learn about myself as a person

To sum up, here are the things that you have to submit:
Proposal (10%)
Learning Records (40%)
Final Product and Presentation (25%)
Reflection (25%)