Revolution Project Guidelines (ALL CLASSES)

Revolution Project
Due Monday, 11/28 - "B" Days
Due Monday, 11/29 - "A" Days


1. Find Your Revolution

Your first step to this project is simply to indentify any real-life revolutionary that has ever lived or any real-life revolution that has ever occurred (or is currently underway) in the course of human history. Your topic must be factual, but it can deal with any major political, social, economic, or interpersonal upheaval that has ever existed.

You may pick ANY of these suggestions or ANY OTHER revolution(ary)! Some possible ideas may include:

• Revolutionary Conflicts
  The French Revolution, The American Revolution, The Russian Revolution, The Hungarian Revolution, The Phillipine Revolution, The Mexican Revolution, The Easter Rising / The Troubles, The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, The Auschwitz Uprising
  
  
• Revolutionary Causes
  Non-Cooperation, Women’s Suffrage, Capital Punishment, The Pro-Life/Pro-Choice Movement, Abolition, The Civil Rights Movement, The Black Panthers, The Gay Rights Movement, The Arab Spring Movement, Prop 8, Occupy Wall Street
  
  
• Revolutionary Figures
  Moses, Jesus of Nazareth, The Prophet Muhammad, Spartacus, George Washington, Susan B. Anthony, Robert E. Lee, Padric Pearse, Fidel Castro, Che Guevara, Vladimir Lenin, Joseph Stalin, Adolph Hitler, Mohandas Ghandi, Margaret Sanger, Betty Friedan, Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, Malcolm X, Jackie Robinson, Sally Ride, Harvey Milk

2. Explore Your Revolution

Step two of this project will challenge you to learn as much as you can about your particular topic. Use the internet and the school library to determine all of the key facts that relate to your cause. Why was your revolution so important? Who lead that revolution? When? Why? Was that revolution successful? (Etc.)

To make sure that you have adequadely explored your revolutionary topic, ALL STUDENTS will be required to fill out the questions provided in the online form located at the following address:

www.TinyURL.com/MeehanRevolution
(Hint: you might want to look at this questionnaire BEFORE and DURING your research phase)

3. Spread Your Revolution

How you choose to spread your revolution is totally up to you, but the third and final component of your project will be to provide some sort of multimedia proof that you have adequately prepared to spread news of your revolution to the world at large. You know: PROPAGANDA.

Some ideas may include:

1) Create and maintain a dedicated Facebook page about your revolutionary cause/figure
2) Create a Glogster or print-copy poster presentation about your revolutionary cause/figure
3) Create and maintain a Twitter feed devoted to your revolutionary cause/figure
4) Create a Prezi presentation about your revolutionary cause/figure
5) Create a Powerpoint slideshow about your revolutionary cause/figure
6) Create a Mp3 recording of an original song/rap about your revolutionary cause/figure
7) Create an original YouTube video about your revolutionary cause/figure
8) Create a website or blog in which people can discuss your revolutionary cause/figure
9) Giving a public speech to your class about your revolutionary cause/figure

Your goal is to get people’s attention and make them take note of your revolution. You will “spread your revolution” to me, and you will be graded according to how attention-grabbing your final product is.