In history and religion, we were assigned a project called the Frankenstein empire project by our teach Ms. Terry.
Description of Work/Assignment: The class was divided into groups of 4. The four empires, Ming and Qing empire, Ottoman Empire, Russian Empire, and the Mughal Empire; each empire was given to each member of the team. I received the Ottoman Empire, which was also the most developed, but each one was special. Everyone read into their empires and wrote the political structure, military strength, economic system, and social hierarchy. After this we came back into the groups and each person presented their empire. While one was presenting the rest of the group took notes and takeaways. After this we created the Frankenstein Empire, which is a make builive empire created by our group. This empire took certain aspects from everyone's empire in the group. We made slides discussing the frankenstein empire with the political structure, military strength, geography, economic system, and social hierarchy. After we made our frankenstein empire we presented it separately to a few classmates. Which 21st Century Skill do you feel this assignment addresses, and why? I feel the 21st century skill that correlates with us, is global awareness and communication skills. Global awareness includes the understanding and actions of cultures and countries, in this case empires. Everyone had to learn and develop a deep understanding of their empire and others. We had to learn which systems of each empire were advanced for the Frankenstein empire. I think communication skills played a huge role in this because we had to present to others, helping them stay awake and active within your presentation. We also worked together and shared ideas about how to create the frankenstein empire using communication skills. This assignment helped my 21st century skill, global awareness. This skill improved by leading me to go out into the world, figuring out the best ways to gather history that impacted this project. What was most difficult about completing this task? The most difficult thing about this task was figuring out which army of each country everyone researched was superior. This was hard because each empire had extremely strong armies and each army had a different strong suit. And also everyone wanted their army to be the chosen one, in the end we all decided on kind of combining everyone's armies. In this assignment I am most proud of how well our team worked together. Everyone gave thoughtful inputs and worked towards the overall goal, which made our project thrive. |
How could you improve this work? If you could start over, what would you do differently? If I recreated this project, I would plan on spending more time on the financial part of our main Frankenstein empire. I feel we could have included a better taxing system. This relates to other projects that included history and projects that the team worked together to give input to create a main product. I can apply this to future learning by knowing about empires throughout history and giving information to others and learned from the team work position that everyone has thoughtful input. I’ll be able to use that knowledge on future projects. |