First Projects!

So as students finish their last Quiz of their Units we will beginning the Projects that they have been working toward. The History Project is still at least 2 weeks away but in government students will begin their first project as early as Wednesday.  The only homework this week for History will be completing their vocab if they did not have time to finish it in class.

Here is the Government Project rubric and project description

What would John Locke do?

Each Group will be assigned an important philosophical influence to our constitution. In each group 1 student will be the social media manage, another will manage the philosopher’s blog, and the last will be the philosopher during a debate. Though the groups will do research together all assignments will be done individually. The student must adhere to the rubric for their section of the assignment regardless of their role.

Things to make your project better:

Try to understand the world they are from.

Take events that occurred in their time period and compare it to now

Try to take their quotes or ideas about their philosophy and compare it to now

In the blogs make sure to show your knowledge by citing where they wrote or said these ideas

In the social media try to paraphrase or translate their quotes into today’s language

Try to be this philosopher and prove they would believe the position you’re arguing.

List of Possible Philosophers

John Locke

Thomas Hobbes

Aristotle

Cicero

Cincinnatus

Thomas Paine

Plato

Descarte

Montesquieu

Calendar.

Monday 9/12	Tuesday 9/13	Wednesday 9/14	Thursday 9/15
Students in their groups will research the philosophies of their selected founder/philosopher.	Students will begin to outline and brainstorm their ideas using their knowledge of current issues from watching the presidential debates.	Students will prepare their section of the project based on the question sheet handed out.	The debate of philosophers. Social Media and Blog writers must be present to cheer on their philosopher. Parents and other students invited.

	Exceeds Standard 20	Meets Standard  10	Below Standard 5
Knowledge of Current constitutional issues	Student understands the issues that are current in our government and how they relate to the constitution	Student has some understanding of current issues and how those issues relate to the constitution	Student has little understanding of current issues and cannot connect them to the constitution
Philosophical Understanding	Students understand the philosophies behind the framing of the constitution	Students have some knowledge of the philosophies that relate to the framing of the constitution	Student has little knowledge of the philosophies that connect to the constitution
Historic Relevance	Student shows knowledge of the historic implications of their assigned philosopher	Student shows some knowledge of the historic implications of their assigned philosopher	Students has little knowledge of the history of their philosopher
Critical thinking	Students shows an accurate ability to think as their assigned philosopher	Student shows the ability to think as their assigned philosopher	Student does not show an ability to think as their assigned philosopher
Writing/Public Speaking Conventions	Student shows mastery of the standards of public speech and writing	Student adheres well to the basic standards of public speech and writing.	Student has many flaws in basic writing and speech

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