Do Now Take a “Absolutist Monarchs Project” sheet from the back table. Take out your notebook

Project Individual project 2 targets addressed 3 in-class days. Due on Tuesday. You will select one of 8 monarchs to study. 2 parts: A report on the monarch, covering the 7 questions on the project sheet. A drawing representing or dramatizing something significant about the monarch’s reign.

Targets Target 4 3 2 1 5.1.3: Can explain the details and evaluate the reign of a specific Absolutist Monarch Write up answers all questions in detail. Write up evaluates with evidence the extent to which their monarch was an absolutist Write up may be missing some evidence or depth but otherwise complete. Write up is missing considerable evidence or depth but otherwise complete Graphic not complete. 5.2.2: can create a detailed graphic that either symbolizes, represents, or dramatizes the reign of a monarch Graphic is complete Graphic has a clear connection to the monarch’s reign. The graphic captures a true sense of the monarch and their reign. Graphic is mostly complete but may be missing coloring/shading, Connection to monarch is a bit surface level. Connection between graphic and monarch unclear. Graphic has some detail but also long spaces of emptiness or incompletion Graphic barely related to monarch. Graphic very sparse or seemingly rushed.

Monarchs: One per table group King Louis XIV (the fourteenth) of France Empress Maria Theresa of the Holy Roman Empire King Charles I (the first) of England Emperor Peter the Great of Russia Empress Catherine the Great of Russia Emperor Ivan the Terrible of Russia The Great Elector (Friedrich Wilhelm) of Brandenburg- Prussia King Frederick the Great of Prussia

Determining which monarch Pick a number between 1-100 Write it on your paper. Closeness to the number Mr Best gives you will determine the order of selection at your table.

Advance Absolutism Undermine Absolutism Take power from nobles Take power from parliaments and other councils Centralize government Restrict Rights Create national army Give power to nobles Give power to parliaments Grant rights Sign constitutions