Storming The Barricades Part 2 (The End)

Hello this is Josh, I’m very excited to write the ending to this project called Storm The Barricade. I have two parts to this post the first one is on my blog check it out here! So I will recap the first post. It was all about the first half of are machine, the American half. This post will be about the french half, the end product and the driving question and competencies. So lets hop straight into this stuff. 

 

lets start off with the explanation on what I mean by french part. We had to different revolution to tie   into our machine along with Crane Brinton. The french part means are French Revolution side of are machine. So it decorated in french revolutions style decor like a Marie Antoinette wig and a guillotine. The other style was an American Revolution style machine. It had King George the III and tea to symbolize the British Empire. There was a ballon that got popped by a razor blade to symbolize the British Empire being popped by the American rebels. 

That was the first half of this project. As I mentioned before you can find that stuff above in the link. Okay on to the French side of the project. So it was all about the French Revolution. So I had Marie Antoinette as the main leader to be dethroned. She was one of the main reasons that the peasants in the French Revolution times were so mad. There was another event that started the rebellion. A raid on a Bastille a french prison and records storage. They killed one soldier and let out a lot of murderers and rapist. Are balloon which in the American one represented the Americans popping the British now represents the raid of the Bastille a very symbolic act in this revolution. We also had a hammer to walk the leader of their throne this was the guillotine. 

Now about the final product the video we had to make. We had to make a video recapping all the different variants of are machine. Crane Brinton, American Revolution and French Revolution. I would say are final video came out quite well. It had all our previous explanation videos. It had good editing and decent acting. It also had AR drawings as well. I made this video and machine with Amy and Erin my two group members. 

now to the driving question the driving question is then most important part of the project it keeps it moving forward. It’s like the engine the drive to try answer the question is what keeps the project going. 

“How do revolutions transform societies?”

This is the driving question for this project. I believe that Revolutions transform society by how the people mind sets transform and how the physical place also transforms . It starts with people not thinking about what they could have. It ends with them achieving their goal with extra consequences. For example the French Revolution the peasants didn’t know what freedom was until the french soldiers came back from war. It ended with heads rolling and Napoleon. Do you see the difference they went from not wanting violence to killing thousands due to the radicals ideas its even reflected in Crane Brinton’s Theory. The moderates just wanting then the radicals take advantage and turn things violent. That is how there mind sets transforms. The place transforms around them it gos from being peace full to being deadly and dangerous. For example the rein of terror. People who said the kings name were killed they were slain for now reason. That is how Revolutions transform places and society’s. 

                   Last but not least the competencies. They are as follow (Designing Text), (Creative Communicator) and ( Discussing, Listening and Speaking) I believe my team definitely  accomplished these competencies. We made a video that answered the driving question and wrote. I also discussed with my group before filming. Listened to my teacher and my groups ideas and spoke to my group giving ideas and conversations. I also wrote two paragraphs one about the American Revolution and one about the French Revolution. I designed my thoughts and paragraph. To fit the rubric while also being explanatory. The final thing is I communicated my ideas creatively. I said creative ideas while discussing our plan of action with my group. 

This has been josh I’m signing off everyone reading this have a lovely day Bye. 👋

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