This project was about some of the great revolutions of the world, the French revolution, the American revolution, the Russian revolution, and the Haitian revolution. We were split up into groups, and picked a revolution to research – my group decided on the Russian revolution – and started to research. My group *technically* consisted of 3 people, whereas the other groups had a minimum of 4 people, and the other class had 6 or more people, we knew we would h be the group that would have to work the hardest, we had a HUGE disadvantage, we were going to have to compete against the other Russian revolution group (who had 3 or 4 more people than we did…).
The very first thing we did was some roleplay! We roleplyed that we were citizens in a new nation – “Nation X”, and there were 4 (I think) classes, royals, jailers, store keepers, and peasants, in order of most power to least. I was a part of the peasants class, we had to write a paper a day (1 roleplay day = 5-10 irl minutes) consisting of at least 100 words about our day, we would sell this for $1, if we didn’t write a paper, we wouldn’t get payed. I would consider myself a writer by heart, so naturally I wrote 200+ words per day (yes, this is in fact a flex.), although I still only got payed $1/day lol. I think I might’ve thrown out some of the paper or got mixed in with some other papers at home, I’ll look around a bit and update this once I get home :’)
Unfortunately, I was sick for the first two assignments so I’m not exactly sure what the are they are or how to explain them, but when I got back, we did the the Revolution Graphic Organizer/infographic! An infographic is a visual form of notes kinda, you know what, I’ll just show you!
First draft
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Second/last draft:
“Continuity and Change” was the next thing we did, uhm I don’t think I was there the day we were taught what to do for it, and my group was all split up for this, so I joined hands with the American Revolution group, although they never gave me the finished product so I have nothing to show for it 🥲
Next up, our Affidavit, an Affidavit is essentially just a list of arguments for a court case + exhibits/references, we were prosecution (the side arguing why the Russian revolution was ineffective). My group was unaware that we were only supposed to make one amongst the 3 of us, not one per person, regardless, here’s mine!
Next, the Trial script. I don’t think I’ve explained it yet, but the finished product was going to be a trial about if the Russian revolution was affective or not, my group was on the prosecution side, AKA the side trying to prove the revolution ineffective. Anyways, I was the one that wrote the majority of the script, one of my team mates was rarely there, therefore I had to write the script myself. Although I am proud of myself for taking initiative and coming out with a more than adequate product! Here’s how it turned out:
Lastly, the filming of the trial. Originally, we were supposed to be working together with the other class, but we ran out of time and we ended up having to film our parts separately. Here’s the finished trial (featuring cameron from the American revolution group):
Thank you so much for reading my blog post! I rushed it a bit, but regardless, I hope you enjoyed! See you in the next blog!!!