REMINDER: I don’t offer last minute extra credit or deals to round up your grade. This is a good time to check Eschool and see if you have any recent assignments marked NHI ("Not Handed In").
Essential Questions:
Which invention, event and/or movement did the most to create our modern understanding of the world?
Can ordinary people be trusted to govern themselves?
Monday, 9/16: Start Intellectual Revolutions Presentations
Essential Questions:
Which invention, event and/or movement did the most to create our modern understanding of the world?
Can ordinary people be trusted to govern themselves?
Monday, 9/16: Start Intellectual Revolutions Presentations
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Tuesday, 9/17: Work day on presentations.
HW: Work on presentations + notes. You will have 60 minutes on block day to prep. Everything must be ready at that point.
BLOCK 9/18-9/19: Prep + Presentations
PREP (60): Share your Google Doc notes with Mr. Butkevich at start of class—I won’t grade them yet, but might give you some feedback.
PRESENTATIONS (30):
Take notes for your in-class writing assignment on Friday.
Friday, 9/20: Finish presentations + Writing Assignment
PRESENTATIONS: Finish.
WRITING ASSIGNMENT. DUE TUESDAY.
Write a minimum 1 page (Times New Roman, 12 point font, 1.5 line spacing) answer to the prompt using at least two examples from other groups’ presentations. You cannot use your own presentation, even if you think it was more important.
Use the short writing rubric on the class web site (under “How to get an A”).
Which inventions, events and/or movements did the most to create our modern understanding of the world?
Monday, 9/23: Tour of Versailles + Start “Your Own Palace”
SLIDE SHOW
HW: Work on presentations + notes. You will have 60 minutes on block day to prep. Everything must be ready at that point.
BLOCK 9/18-9/19: Prep + Presentations
PREP (60): Share your Google Doc notes with Mr. Butkevich at start of class—I won’t grade them yet, but might give you some feedback.
PRESENTATIONS (30):
Take notes for your in-class writing assignment on Friday.
Friday, 9/20: Finish presentations + Writing Assignment
PRESENTATIONS: Finish.
WRITING ASSIGNMENT. DUE TUESDAY.
Write a minimum 1 page (Times New Roman, 12 point font, 1.5 line spacing) answer to the prompt using at least two examples from other groups’ presentations. You cannot use your own presentation, even if you think it was more important.
Use the short writing rubric on the class web site (under “How to get an A”).
Which inventions, events and/or movements did the most to create our modern understanding of the world?
Monday, 9/23: Tour of Versailles + Start “Your Own Palace”
SLIDE SHOW
| _absolutism_tour_of_versailles.pptx |
| your_own_palace.doc |
PROJECT: Start “Your Own Palace”. Use your imagination and what you’ve learned about Louis XIV and Versailles.
HW: Intellectual Revolutions Presentation Writing Assignment due on Tuesday.
Tuesday, 9/24: Video “The Rise and Fall of Versailles”
DUE: Intellectual Revolutions Presentation Writing Assignment
VIDEO (28) (Minutes 14-42 start with Louis looking at design model to move whole court to Versailles, end when he gets sick) “The Rise and Fall of Versailles, Part 1”
Write down everything that you see in the palace (architecture, art, costumes) that helped reinforce his control.
DEBRIEF
HW: No Practice Quiz or Quiz this week—Work on “Your Own Palace” so you can present on Friday.
Block Day, 9/25-9/26: “Your Own Palace”
HW: Finish “Your Own Palace”—Be ready to present the map and your slide show.
Friday, 9/27: Present “Your Own Palace.”
Monday, 9/30: Short Lecture, Prep for Enlightenment Press Conference
HW: Intellectual Revolutions Presentation Writing Assignment due on Tuesday.
Tuesday, 9/24: Video “The Rise and Fall of Versailles”
DUE: Intellectual Revolutions Presentation Writing Assignment
VIDEO (28) (Minutes 14-42 start with Louis looking at design model to move whole court to Versailles, end when he gets sick) “The Rise and Fall of Versailles, Part 1”
Write down everything that you see in the palace (architecture, art, costumes) that helped reinforce his control.
DEBRIEF
HW: No Practice Quiz or Quiz this week—Work on “Your Own Palace” so you can present on Friday.
Block Day, 9/25-9/26: “Your Own Palace”
HW: Finish “Your Own Palace”—Be ready to present the map and your slide show.
Friday, 9/27: Present “Your Own Palace.”
Monday, 9/30: Short Lecture, Prep for Enlightenment Press Conference
| the_enlightenment_short_lecture.pptx |
- What is the ideal form of government? Why?
- Can ordinary people be trusted to govern themselves?
Tuesday 10/1: Video + Prep for Enlightenment Press Conference
HW: If you are portraying Locke or attacking Locke watch the video below (only the first 5 minutes and 39 seconds--end with bear brandishing guns at the Founding Fathers).
| theenlightenment_tci_short_reading.pdf |
Thursday, 10/3 (TR OF MIN DAY WEEK—1:15 minute blocks) Prep for Press Conference
· Go over your handout together as a group and bullet point answers to the questions.
· Flesh out the character. How does he or she sound, act (mannerisms?), dress (props are good!). What sort of body language is the character going to project?
· What are your character’s most important ideas? How can you present them in the most persuasive, interesting way?
· What questions are the opposite teams’ public relations officers going to ask to trip your character up?
· What questions can you come up with to get your public relations agent to ask other characters to trip them up? This requires studying the other teams’ handouts.
· Rehearse!
HW: If you are portraying Hobbes or attacking Hobbes, watch the video below.
· Go over your handout together as a group and bullet point answers to the questions.
· Flesh out the character. How does he or she sound, act (mannerisms?), dress (props are good!). What sort of body language is the character going to project?
· What are your character’s most important ideas? How can you present them in the most persuasive, interesting way?
· What questions are the opposite teams’ public relations officers going to ask to trip your character up?
· What questions can you come up with to get your public relations agent to ask other characters to trip them up? This requires studying the other teams’ handouts.
· Rehearse!
HW: If you are portraying Hobbes or attacking Hobbes, watch the video below.
Friday 10/4: Press Conference
HW: WRITING ASSIGNMENT—Enlightenment Island. DUE ON TUESDAY.
300 years have passed since the founding of The Island. Which Enlightenment ruler or philosopher (Maximum two) would you want to have as the ruler of "The Island"? Why?·
Length: 1 page. Times New Roman, 12 point font, 1.5 line spacing.
Use multiple specific facts from the packet and/or the press conference to back up your assertions.·
Apply what you’ve learned to “The Island”.
Don't forget to proofread.
See rubric below.
- What is the ideal form of government? Why?
- Can ordinary people be trusted to govern themselves?
HW: WRITING ASSIGNMENT—Enlightenment Island. DUE ON TUESDAY.
300 years have passed since the founding of The Island. Which Enlightenment ruler or philosopher (Maximum two) would you want to have as the ruler of "The Island"? Why?·
Length: 1 page. Times New Roman, 12 point font, 1.5 line spacing.
Use multiple specific facts from the packet and/or the press conference to back up your assertions.·
Apply what you’ve learned to “The Island”.
Don't forget to proofread.
See rubric below.
| short_writing_assignments.docx |
