Name: Class:

Global Roundtables December 2016

*As well as your thematic essay, you will present the ​PROCESS​of writing your
thematic essays.
*You should be able to answer ALL of the questions below ​verbally​for Roundtables.
*You can ​CHOOSE​WHICH questions to write answers to in your cover letter.
*When you are finished writing your cover letter and essay here, DELETE the
questions you did not answer, add pictures, and make this document your own.

INTRODUCTION:
Who are you?
What is a thematic essay?
Why do we write thematic essays?
How are the skills for writing thematic essays useful for your life beyond high school?

THEMATIC ESSAY PROCESS:

How did I generate my ideas?
How did I organize my ideas?
How did I use the resources provided?
How did I revise my work? (peer editing? Teacher feedback? Self-reflection? Rubric?)
What was the most difficult part of this process?
Show me one place in your paper that you revised and explain why.

GENERAL QUESTIONS:
COMPARE and CONTRAST your first thematic essay (Absolutism) and your second thematic
essay (Enlightenment/ Scientific Revolution)
COMPARE and CONTRAST the FIRST DRAFT of your thematic essay with your final draft.
What would I do differently next time?
How am I as a student of Global?

ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS:
How was Louis the XIV a prime example of an absolute monarch?
How was the Catherine the Great different from the other absolute monarchs?
How did Peter the Great change Russia?
How is the Scientific Revolution a turning point?
How is the Enlightenment a turning point?
According to the Enlightenment philosophers, how should a government rule its people?
How did the Enlightenment lead to social reform?
How did the Enlightenment lead to political reform?
How are these non-political revolutions related to your life?
What are the pros and cons of Absolute monarchy?
How did absolute monarchy end?

EXTENSION:
What questions do YOU have about any of the topics we studied, or the thematic essay
process, or Global?
Choose your own images of the main ideas of the topics you wrote about
EXPLAIN why these images represent the main ideas of the topics you wrote about

PASTE COVER LETTER HERE:

Name: Shahlo Tohirova Class: Joan of Arc 2 Date:

Global Roundtables December 2016

PROJECT TEMPLATE
This cover letter is your project.
You will talk about how you wrote a thematic essay, and how you felt while writing it.

A. Introduce yourself:
1. What is your name? What grade are you in? What are you studying?

(Ex. ​
My name is ____________. I am in the [10th, 11th, 12th] grade. I am studying
_________ with Ms. Fried and Ms. Boletsis)​
My name is Shahlo Tohirova. I am in the 10th grade. I am studying Global History with
Ms. Fried and Ms. Boletsis

2. What is a thematic essay?

(Ex. ​
A thematic essay is…. It is important because...)
 A thematic essay is an essay about what we have to know, such as what is in history books.
We have to know this for the Global Regents.

3. Why do we write thematic essays? Why is it important?

(Ex. ​
I think writing a thematic essay might be good because....)

A thematic essay is very important because it is independently what think you need to
be able to understand and there is a lot of information to understand.

B. The Thematic Essay Writing Process- Explain HOW you did each step:
1. How did you feel the first time you had to write your essay in class?
(Ex. ​
I felt nervous because.... ​OR ​I felt good writing the essay because…)
I am writing this essay gives me a lot of information have not seemed to be a bit difficult but I
managed to finish it with the help of teachers. I have to get past my fear, not only to
strengthen my knowledge about the topic but to also try to finish faster.

2. ​What ​did you have to write your thematic essay about?

Part I of this essay first, the main unit and its consequences and effects. ​(Shahlo, what did
you have to write your essay about? Two non-political revolutions…) ​I I had to write his
development, of which the works of renowned scholars and its causes and consequences of

3. ​Why ​did you choose to write about these two revolutions?

I was interested in the development of Science and the greatest scientific breakthroughs of
science and education. I feel the same about the Enlightenment as philosophy brought about
the emergence of a new era. The basis of this topic is very interesting and informative.

4. Here tell me about each revolution:

(Ex. ​
The Enlightenment was about… The Scientific Revolution was about...​)
The Scientific Revolution led to scientific development, new discoveries and the
development of knowledge. The Enlightenment was based on philosophy and new
developments that started with Newton's law of the mechanical arts. ​This revolution was
unavailable a lot about them. the great scholars of the revolutionary development of the
exact sciences and the science works against them priests and religious, and there are a lot
of information about the consequences of their. What is enlightenment? and find answers to
the questioning of his life, its problems, the philosophy of the great Tibetan and I tried to
write a terrible development.

5. How did both revolutions change the world?

This has opened the way towards enlightenment and knowledge, both of the new century,
noted.

C. Present Essays:​Here you will show the group the essay you wrote.

D. Analysis: How I’ve Improved

1. How do you feel writing thematic essays now? How is it different from the first time you
had to write one in class?
Thematic essay for the first time was difficult. I had a few problems at first but I corrected my
errors and it slowly got better.

2. What do you think you still need to work on?

I think I need some more information about history. In addition to the above words I want to
strengthen my language skills in order to be able to work autonomously.

3. What can you do to get better at writing thematic essays?

I will have more information and get help from my classmates and teachers.

D. EXTENSION:

1. Find a picture of what you wrote about (the two revolutions) and put it here. Why did
you choose this picture?
I chose this picture because it shows scientists making a discovery. The children are very
interested in what they are doing. This shows time during the Scientific Revolution.
PASTE ESSAY HERE:
Non political Revolution
I will write about two non-political revolutions, the Enlightenment and the
Scientific Revolution. ​Enlightenment changed events and it the changed
philosophy.​What is this Philosophy? Philosophy is the most common of science
(theory). The outlook is one of the forms of human activity. How did people live?
How did they live a life of what is a variable and what the nature of their
knowledge, and the kind of thinking that tries to solve.
Europe is leader in philosophical thought. philosophy is connected to the
development of scientific knowledge in society. In this new period F.Bacon,
R.Descartes, T.Gobs, J.Locke, Voltaire and other philosophers worked. In
German classical philosophy it was Genda, Kant, Shelly, Hegel and others.
Philosophical ideas emerged in the following areas: empiricism and rationalism,
nominalism and realism, materialism, idealism and other.
The emergence of the modern philosophy and skepticism led to the birth of
modern physics. One of the most important people in this period was John
Locke.
Sixteenth and seventeenth centuries ended with the attempt to promote
Newton mechanics. Newton's laws of mechanics formed the basis of the three
principles. As defined by Newton I. (1687). The first law of any object until the
external force it maintains its quiet mode or linear movement of the flat (the law:
the law of the inert). The second law (in multiple tissues of body mass) is
proportional to the force affecting change direction. The third law - the power of
the two-body interaction are equal and opposite to the direction of (the law: the
law of impact and influence).
The problems of the philosophy of science, its properties, and can be
temporary or lasting. Arising from the period of the eternal problems of humanity,
so that mankind will live. For every stage of human development this issue again
on the agenda have been. Development of their learning process of science.
 Scientific Revolution
The Scientific Revolution began with Nicolas Copernicus, Galileo Galilei, Isaac
Newton who contributed to the findings. N.Copernicus and G. Galilei discovered
heliocentrism in 1633. The Catholic Church’s inquiry, resulted in N.Copernicus
being forced to abandon the doctrine on June 22nd, 1633. The people living in
Europe at the time who believed in the famous scientists were punished by the
church and the people suffered. Italian scientist, philosopher, astronomer J.
Bruno was killed by the monks of the Church who were burnt at the stake. ​ Why
did he do it? J.Bruno awareness support pantheistic. As a child, he learned the
doctrines of the Christian faith with the principles of N. Copernicus. He is a
person who has his own opinion on teaching children. Because he was taught
how to critically look. His beliefs challenged the doctrines of the Christian Church.
Bruno called their views yells philosophy.