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

2. 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.

3. 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.

4. 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

5. 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.

6. 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