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 Niccolo Machiavelli Rationalism

Revolution Martin Luther Machiavellianism
The American Immanuel Kant Scientific Methods
Revolution John Locke Hedonic Calculus
The French Revolution Thomas Hobbes Lockeanism
Jean-Jacques Rousseau Hobbesianism
Voltaire Colonization
Molly Wollstonecraft
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New World Uprisings

Global Economics
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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Unit 1 Project Guideline

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

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Group Member(s): Auau Preaw Peak
Product Title: __The American revolution_________________________________________
Type of Product: Short film
Your Selected Revolution, Historical Figures, and Ideologies/Movements:
(From the list in Step 2)

The American Revolution

Niccolo Machiavelli
Martin Luther
Machiavellianism
Rationalism
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.)

How the topics which we choose relate to each other?

How American Revolution affects others country ex. to Thailand?
What will happen if the American Revolution fell?
How did the ideologies affect to Americans s belief in past and today?

Product Description:
(Make sure it is clear what the product will look like, what it will include, and how it will be
organized.)
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Unit 1 Project Guideline

We decided choose a short film. In order to make it realistic, each of us will choose one
character and pretending to be that character. We will imagine that we are during at that time,
act as we are their citizens. In each scene will base on the real situation. In the first scene, we
will explain about the basic knowledge or the introduction of our topic. Therefore, in the other
scene we will explain it more deeply such as a concept, facts or ideas of the American
revolution. Furthermore, we will provide you a clearly explanation in order to make you
understand it.

How the product demonstrates the connection between your selected topics and the
goals/essential understandings of this unit:

Our short story will reflect on how does people lived during that time, as well as the changes of
the affected that came after the American revolution. Moreover, we will learn a biography and
their ideologies of the important people that we already chosen. From doing this project, it
teaches us on how the world changed from the middle age until now. It also teaches us on how
people during that time share their ideas or opinions and what does it affected to the culture
from the middle age until now.

ESLOs:
(What ESLOs does your project relate to and how?)

Strategic learners: We know and understand the main point of this topic. We can also
reflect and learn from our mistake to be our lesson in the future.
Articulate communicators: In our group we listen to the other opinions. We also use the
technology to search for ideas or concepts.
Leaders of the future: From doing this project it influent us to be a leader and have a
teamwork while doing the project. We accept the other opinions and we discuss in
group.
Morally intelligent persons: While this project is divided into groups. It encourages us to
have an honesty, justice, and peace among the group. We are all hard working and
caring others while doing this project and we use the technology in a right way that
doesnt harm any other in the group.
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VARK Learning Strategies:

(What is your individual VARK learning style and how do you plan to do your research based on
the style?)

I have done for the VARK question, and my score is Visual 5, Aural 9, Read/Write 5 and
Kinesthetic7. According to the results, my best way is Aural and Kinesthetic so I would to
gather information by watching videos which relate on the topic and try to draw a Mind map or
make an infographic. For instances, I watch video about the biography of Martin Luther. I have
to watch it carefully and watch on another website to compare and summarize. I thought that
this way will help me understand the lesson clearly. Moreover, I will skim through the reading
to understand the main idea on topic that I interested in and discuss with my group. Thus, our
group will know deeply in each topic.

Starter sources/references:
(Sources that you will begin with in your research for your project.)
The facts of the American Revolution: http://www.biographyonline.net/facts-american-
revolution/
The biography of Martin Luther: https://www.biography.com/people/martin-luther-9389283
Tea, Taxes, and The American Revolution: Crash Course World History:
https://youtu.be/HlUiSBXQHCw

The biography of Niccolo Machiavelli: https://www.biography.com/people/niccol%C3%B2-

machiavelli-9392446

What is Rationalism: https://www.britannica.com/topic/rationalism

Learning Plan:
(This is a daily plan of what you will do each day for the rest of the quarter.)
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What You Plan to Do Things to Submit Due Date

Day Form the group. (Our group has three - -

1 members)

Day Discuss on each topic that is suitable for our - -

2 interest

Day Pick the topics. - -

3

Day Find some basic information about each topic. - -

4

Day Start and continue doing our proposal. - -

5

Day Finished to do the proposal. Proposal 18th August

6

Day Start to think about the product. - -

7

Day Plan on researching, give each person a role - -

8

Day Research on background about the topic (cause, - -

9 biography of person that we chose)

Day Research on the basic thoughts of ideologies - -

10

Day Gather the information and connect together - -

11
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Day Start thinking of the real product and draft the - -

12 storyboard

Day Make the video - -

13

Day Make the video - -

14

Day Final checking , ready for the presentation Product 8th September
15 Presentation

Day Working on learning records Learning Records Day 1 of that

16 Week

Day Discuss about the comments - -

17

Day Working on the reflection - -

18

Day Finish the reflection - -

19

Day Connect the work to the ESLOs Reflection 21st

20 September

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.)

-The American Revolution

known as the American Revolutionary War and the U.S. War of Independence. This conflict
arose from growing tensions between residents of Great Britains 13 North American colonies
and the colonial government.
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-Martin Luther : German monk

: Protestant reformation

-Niccolo Machiavellii was an Italian diplomat, politician, historian and philosopher during the
Renaissance period.
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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%)