French Revolution and Modern Art Cover Letter

Today in class we decided to stop working on the French Revolution Project and move forward. In order to get credit for the work you did, respond to the following:

Reflect on your work on the French Revolution Project. What did you do (tasks/effort)? What did you learn? Be specific.

Reflect on the process of choosing and implementing a government to try to get the project going!

We also talked about how to write a cover letter. Here's a link with some guidelines on writing a business letter:

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/653/01/

Magna Carta

Here's the link for the magna carta: http://www.pearsonsuccessnet.com/ebook/products/0-13-133374-7/view1_WH07A01163.pdf

Or, go to pearsonsuccessnet.com, log in, and type in page 250 in the search box on the left sidebar. You need to click on the button that comes up on that page to see the .pdf document of the magna carta.

Modern Art - Part 1

The first part of the assignment has been posted to the S: drive (sshirley, modern art materials, modern art project page 1) and to my my website at branfordhigh.org (under documents).

Here are the sites Ms. Roy (librarian) shared with you in class today:

www.artcyclopedia.com
www.moma.org
http://wwar.com
http://icom.museum/vlmp

Understanding Background of Revolutionary Thought

Go to Pearsonsuccessnet.com and log in using the log in astudent, bstudent, cstudent, or any letter of the alphabet up to nstudent and the password 123456.

Using the navigation bar on the left, select Chapter 8, Section 1. Read all of the pages in that section up to the section review.

Write well-developed responses to the following questions (answer in YOUR OWN WORDS (not the textbook’s!), explain what you mean, and support with appropriate detail summarized from the text):
1. How did monarchs in England and France expand royal authority and lay the foundations for united nation-states?
2. How were nobles and the Church obstacles for monarchs who wanted more power?
3. How did William increase royal power in England?
4. Explain the importance of (a) the Magna Carta and b) the Model Parliament.
5. Describe the power struggle between French kings and the pope.

Some important info...

We are wrapping up our introduction of exploring the four basic forms of government, and will move into a study of the French Revolution. From there we will look at the Russian Revolution in greater detail.

We have also started our work on modern art. If you have not selected your artist and painting yet, you will do so on Monday, 11/10. The forms we have gone over (or will on Monday) are now in the shared data drive (under sshirley, modern art materials) as well as on my school website page under files/documents. You will get more information about the project (the first stage of it anyway) on Monday.

My Government is the BEST!

Hmm...I realized that I haven't been keeping the blog updated. It would help me if you let me know that you rely on me posting the info here for you!

You have been examining primary resources (Herodotus, Pericles, Machiavelli) and discussing the purpose of government. Now you are studying the different forms of government, focusing on: anarchy, autocracy, oligarchy, and democracy. Your specific assignment is:

My Government is the BEST!

You need to convince the class that your form of government (as assigned) is the best form. To do this you need to:

1. Determine the pros and cons for your form of government.
2. Identify the cons for each of the other forms.
3. Research places that your form of government has been used and successful.
4. Make a presentation to the class to persuade them that your form of government is the best, including:
a. 30 second commercial spot
b. 2 minute speech
c. At least 2 visuals

You will be assessed on a review of each of 1 -4 above:
1. Accuracy
2. Depth of consideration of pros/cons
3. Persuasiveness (including focusing on positives of your gov’t, not negatives of others (this, if included, needs to be subtle!)
4. Neatness/grammar/presentation skills
5. Organization
6. Your contribution to your group

USE THE RESOURCES LISTED ON THE SIDE-BAR BELOW TO ADD TO YOUR RESEARCH!

Apology

I apologize to any of you who were subjected to the hacking by a student into my blog. Please ignore the post, if you happened to have seen it.

Please read on for the assignment.