Hello! This is my first post of the new year and my post about our winter exhibition! We have worked many weeks to put together this presentation for the family and friends of all the PLP students.
The Driving Question
This year the project for our winter exhibition was revolutions, we all had to study different revolutions for the exhibition. The driving question for this project was
“What Factors Precipitate ‘Revolution’ and How Have They Shaped the Modern World?”
Animal Farm
Like our last humanities project we had to read book. This book was called “Animal Farm” it’s a pretty famous book so you might have heard of it, it’s based on the Russian revolution and the animals symbolize important figures in the Russian Revolution. Animal Farm is a short book and it was kind of boring and hard to read but it was interesting and I learnt a lot from it.
Click here to read more about Animal Farm!
Animal Farm Infographic
After we read Animal Farm we were asked to make an infographic (infographic is something that is used to represent a piece of data) about Animal Farm and the stages of a revolution. There stages a revolution are Incubation Stage, Moderate Stage, Crisis Stage, and Recovery Stage. These stages represent how the violence and rebellion progressed and built up through the stages.
This is my Animal Farm infographic:
The Haitian Revolution
After animal farm we were introduced to the revolutions that had happened all over the world a long time and we were instructed to learn about different revolutions. So we got put into groups which turned out would also be our group for the winter exhibition. My group got the Haitian revolution to study and in my group I had
Everyone in my group had to make a separate infographic about the Haitian revolution, we had a week to do it was a lot of reasoning because the Haitian revolution is quite confusing but also super interesting! I really enjoyed learning about it.
Here is a video to help you learn a little more about the Haitian Revolution:
The Haitian Revolution: In the late 18th century, the island of Saint-Domingue (modern-day Haiti) was home to over 500,000 enslaved people of African descent. Inspired by the revolutionary ideals of Boukman there was a call for a revolution that quickly engulfed the entire island. What started as a fight for freedom and equality soon escalated into a historic revolution that was a turning point in the history of Haiti. There were hierarchy present in Saint-Domingue, highlighting the imbalance between the enslaved population and their oppressors. The start of the rebellion was inspired by Boukman’s prayer. Inspired by Boukman the enslaved people set fire to the plantations in protest. A man named Toussaint Louverture who was very important in the Haitian Revolution because he played a big role in organizing and leading the rebellion against the colonial forces, as well as the economic downfall of Saint Domingue due to loss if plantation. The spread of information about the rebellion, led at the time by Toussaint, it spread rapidly from person to person, furthering support for the revolution. People whispered about the revolution then fought more until finally all people of colour on saint Dominque had freedom and citizenship. Napoleon Bonaparte heard that all people of colour were free in saint Dominque, he wanted to reintroduce slavery so he could get more money to further his empire. Napoleon arrived with his army, who attempted to and restore colonial rule. A lot of important people died when they started fighting. In the end Toussaint Louverture was put in jail and later died. Eventually Napoleon and his army being unsuccessfully tried to restore colonial rule. They fled back to France because most of the troops died in battle. After Napoleon left the island of saint Domingue was named Haiti and it was finally a free country.
My infographic on the Haitian revolution:
We then had to make a group infographic and this is what it looked like:
Rube Goldberg Machine
To symbolize and show our work on the Haitian revolution we had to make a Rube Goldberg machine. We had to make at least 10 elements on the machine that we can use to show the parts of the Haitian revolution. It was super fun making the machine but our first attempt at it didn’t work so we had to take everything apart and restart while all the other groups were almost done. It worked in the end and I’m really proud of us for how it turned out. But I found out that I wouldn’t be able to go to the exhibition because of a family thing so I was sad that I wouldn’t see how well it worked at the exhibition.
As well as being called a Rube Goldberg machine it is also called a metaphor machine because it is showing an action while explaining something that has happened. Our metaphor machine was showing the stages on the Haitian revolution.
This is our final product!
Here is a video of our Rube Goldberg Machine in action!
I wasn’t at the exhibition but my group told me that it went really well and that we only had a couple fails but we just restarted and did it again so it was okay. Im really happy with the way it turned out and I’m proud of my group for making it.
Conclusion
In conclusion I had a really fun time with this project and I really enjoyed learning about the revolutions and it was interesting to read animal farm and learn about the Russian Revolution through a book about animals, and even though it took a while making the infographic was fun and I liked how people could see all my work on one page. Seeing our Rube Goldberg Machine work was very rewarding and I enjoyed making it. Thanks for reading about my exhibition! See you soon for my next post!😁