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World History II:

Unit 1 Project Guideline

Step 4 - Create a proposal according to the given template and rubric.


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Group Member(s): Mind, Genie, Jane, Minnie
Product Title: ___Declaring America_______________________________
Type of Product: ___Fiction____________________________________________

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


(From the list in Step 2)
American Revolution
John Locke, Voltaire
Rationalism, Lockeanism, Colonization

Research Questions (at least 2-3 questions):


(What do you hope to learn? Make sure it is not straightforward/simple. Look at the
rubric.)
1. If France wouldnt have helped America during the American revolution, would the
French militarys mindset stay the same, and if not how would it affect the French
Revolution?
2. Were the ideologies created during the revolution? How? Or they were introduced
before, and caused the revolution to happen? Or people have learned from the event,
so they made these ideologies?
3. How did the ideologies affect common American citizens beliefs? Does it affect the
society as a whole and which beliefs get passed on to todays society?

Product Description:
(Make sure it is clear what the product will look like, what it will include, and how it will
be organized.)
The type of product the our group decided to make is fiction. In this case, our fiction will be
about us pretending as we are one of the people that we chose. Were going to create a
fiction or a story , occurred in the specific time, which take place in the real situation. It will
include the real information and events that happened during the American Revolution.
Moreover, it will give you, readers, an idea of what, when, where, why or how did the
revolution happen, or even inform about the people, also, their ideas and philosophy related.
Our fiction will start by introducing the background of American Revolution and the main
characters. Then, itll take you to the revolution where important events occur and how our
characters react to those events. The characters will be faced with events that affected their
ideologies and vice versa.
World History II:
Unit 1 Project Guideline

How the product demonstrates the connection between your selected topics and the
goals/essential understandings of this unit:
Our fiction will explain how life was like during the American Revolution, from the perspectives
of the important people chosen, as well as the ideologies behind them. This project will help
us learn more about how the middle ages developed into the modern world we live in today,
by looking at how different ideas were created and affected people in that age. Also, to
evaluate important peoples opinions and what they did to the society.

ESLOs:
(What ESLOs does your project relate to and how?)
- Strategic Learners: As this is a self-directed project, we need to think of questions and
research on our own in order to collect the information needed. We also need to plan
well on our work management to complete the project in time.
- Articulate Communicators: Our fiction is based on real events which happened in the
past. We have to express these information in a simple way which is also fun to read.
- Altruistic Global Citizens: We learn to be good citizens by studying how people in the
past maintain a peaceful or chaotic society.
- Leaders for the Future: We study about how important people during the American
Revolution impacted society. So, within our group, we can evaluate how their
decisions was wise or not and apply them to our lives.
World History II:
Unit 1 Project Guideline

VARK Learning Strategies:


(What is your individual VARK learning style and how do you plan to do your research
based on the style?)
Jane: Vark is a learning strategies that use to find and helps our learning by using the
strategies we should be using. Ive done a question on a website and as a result I find that my
best learning ways are Aural and Visual which is good for learning in a way of discussion, talk
in a group and looking at different formats. Due to these result, I plan to do my research by
share ideas in a group, exchange each person opinion and try to help each other out. Ill
looking for a mind map or a diagram that can explain more about this topic and at the end Ill
did a research on what Ive found. Im going to start looking at a mindmap about philosophy of
John Locke and looking at his biology in form of diagram.

Mind: I have a multimodal learning preference, VARK, my score is Visual 4 Aural 3 Read/Write
5 Kinesthetic 4. However, according to each score, my best learning style is reading or writing.
So I plan about my researching process that, first, Ill try to find as much important information
as possible, from different kinds of sources: websites, journals and books. Then, as Im
reading the article or content, Ill write some short notes for reminding myself the main points,
and for sharing and explaining it to groupmates in order to get the right and further
understanding on the topic. Lastly, after my group and I applied our learning strategies and
achieved the efficient research process, we will all gather what weve got, and create our
masterpiece, our product. As we start the researching process, Ill start off by searching on the
historical websites for articles about the overall event, then Ill look for some presentations or
videos showing further about the situation, circumstances, and maybe, life of people.

Minnie: I have a multimodal learning style, with the highest scores in visual and auditory
strategies. For the research part, I would gather information by watching videos on
explanations of the topics and try to find infographics or timelines of the events during the
American Revolution, for example I would search for videos on History.com. If I have time, I
would look for information on both American and British websites to make sure the sources
arent biased. I would then make a summary of the informations by drawing a mind map. I
might discuss the questions about the topic with my group to further understand and to be
able to feel like being a person in that period of time, which will be helpful for writing this
fiction.

Genie: I have done several questions on website to test my skills and my best skill is my read
and writing skills. This skill is serve for the reading articles and try to understand it clearly. I
plan to research the topic in many websites or different sources of information related to my
topic and read the articles and rewrite it to make it easier for reader to understand. While
reading, I will try to summarize the article and find the key point of it. I will start with research
for the articles of the historians and situation that happen so it would help me to connect the
facts together.
World History II:
Unit 1 Project Guideline

Starter sources/references:
(Sources that you will begin with in your research for your project.)
John Lockes biography: http://www.iep.utm.edu/locke/
Voltaires biography: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/voltaire/
American Revolutionary timeline: :https://www.nps.gov/revwar/about_the_revolution/
timeline_of_events.html
What is Lockeanism: http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/magazinemonitor/2010/05/
paper_monitor_937.shtml
American colony: https://www.loc.gov/collections/american-colony-in-jerusalem/articles-and-
essays/american-colony-in-jerusalem-timeline-1828-1980/
Summary of the American Revolution: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2xwoFhkVTo

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 Choose groupmates & - -
understand the rubrics
Day 2 Choose topic ( revolution, people - -
and ideologies )
Day 3 Choose the type of product and - -
figure out how itll look like
Day 4 Do the proposal ( Research - -
Question and Product
Description )
Day 5 Continue doing the rest of the - -
proposal
Day 6 Finish the proposal, e-portfolio Proposal 18th August
and submit
Day 7 Plan on researching, give each - -
person a role
Day 8 Research on the background of - -
the situation before revolution,
and what causes it to happen
Day 9 Research on more causes, and - -
the biography of important
people chosen
Day 10 Research on the basic thoughts - -
of each ideologies, the
ideologists
World History II:
Unit 1 Project Guideline

Day 11 Gather the information and - -


connect
Day 12 Start planning about the real - -
product
Day 13 Start writing the fiction - -

Day 14 Continue writing the fiction and - -


finish up
Day 15 Final check, be ready to turn in Product 8th September
and present, Work on the learning Presentation
records
Day 16 Work on the learning records Learning Day 1 of that
Records Week
Day 17 Discuss about the comments and - -
feedbacks received
Day 18 Work on the reflection - -

Day 19 Work on the reflection - -

Day 20 Finish the reflection and connect Reflection 21st September


it to the ESLOs

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