Hola,
My last Humanities project of 2021 was called Revolutions on trial. In short form, we had to research a revolution and let the audience at the Winter Exhibition decide if it was “Effective” or “Ineffective” through a mock trial where groups/teams dressed up and took on roles of members of court.
This project’s driving question was “How can we, as legal teams, determine the effectiveness of a revolution?” and to answer it, we did the following things written below.
Our first assignments were to learn and understand the different stages of Crane Brinton’s anatomy of revolution. Once we understood each step we individually drew a creative diagram of what a revolution looks like, I chose to make mine with drawings and speech bubbles to express the points of view and actions of different people.
We then started reading a book called “Animal Farm” on our own time to understand what a revolution meant from different perspectives and what stages there are, and then discussed each chapter in class. I found it interesting how each stage of Brinton’s anatomy fit perfectly into the book.
After that we got into our revolution groups. I was put into the American Revolution with 4 other classmates and together we worked to prove that the American Revolution was indeed effective.
To do this we worked with the other American Revolution group to fit together the key events of the revolution with Brinton’s anatomy. Once we knew what happened, we began to find evidence that proves the effectiveness of the American revolution. We used everything we could find that was useful and turned our information into a Affidavit which we presented to the opposing group.
Unfortunately I missed the Winter exhibition due to a trip to see my family so I provided my group mates with enough help to ensure our project was ready to presented. I managed to understand what the trial would look like through a mock trial where I served as the judge since I was going to be away.
From what I saw through the video of the American Revolution trial part of the winter exhibition it looked like it all went great and that the American Revolution was sadly proven ineffective!
Even though I missed the major part of the project I still found it really interesting and creative the way this project turned out.