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American Revolution
John Locke, Voltaire
Rationalism, Lockeanism, Colonization
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.
Minnie: I have a multimodal learning style, with higher score in visual and auditory strategies.
For the research part, I would gather information by watching videos on explanations of the
World History II:
Unit 1 Project Guideline
topics and try to find infographics or timelines of the events during the American Revolution. I
would 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.
Starter sources/references:
(Sources that you will begin with in your research for your project.)
John Lockes biography: https://www.biography.com/people/john-locke-9384544
Voltaires biography: https://www.biography.com/people/voltaire-9520178
American Revolutionary timeline
:http://www.ducksters.com/history/revolutionarywartimeline.php
What is Lockeanism:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/magazinemonitor/2010/05/paper_monitor_937.shtml
American colony:https://www.landofthebrave.info/colonization-of-america.htm
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