History Exhibit

THE HISTORY EXHIBIT

Title: “Patterns in Decline: 19^th century China and Japan.”

Date: 23 May 2011 at 12: 20 p.m.

Location: International School of Estonia – Tallinn, Estonia

• Student goal: Review the Qing Dynasty from late Qianlong to 1911 Revolution and Tokugawa Shogunate from 1600 to 1868.  Be able to compare and contrast.
• Exhibit goal: To curate an exhibit exposing the common patterns of failed modernization efforts and decline of China and Japan
• Role of each student: Curator and educator.  Choose the best pieces to reach the exhibit goal. Create images, text and audio to represent and explain.
• Audience: ISE students, parents, administration, ambassadors
• Forum: Entrance of ISE, Virtual exhibit online
• Rubric: To be created by students. Must include the at least the following categories: content, creativity, presentation of exhibit, and collaboration
• Product: what your piece will look and sound like? What the exhibit will look like?

Limitations:

• Size of art piece: 18 inches X 24 inches
• Framed
• Accompanied by sound (audio podcast)
• Accompanied by links to more information
• Accompanied by a handout
• There is a sense of relationship between each piece
• 5 topics:
  • Success of regimes (Qing, Tokugawa) [Aleks]
  • Factors that led to decline: domestic pressures [?}
  • Factors that led to decline: external pressures [?]
  • Efforts to reform and modernize [?]
  • The fall [Grace]