Establish a classroom atmosphere that celebrates the sharing of learning. Have opportunity for students to practice new learnings. Make student learning available to the larger community, i.e. books students write are shared with other classes, students report in school paper, student work is displayed at school, etc.

Quiz

Objective: Students will demonstrate their understanding of the concept of absolutism by presenting a creative project to the class.

Activity: Students present their dramatic scenes, cartoons, artwork, poems or songs to the class.
Examples of student work in the past have included a song about American life under an absolute dictator sung to the tune of the Beverly Hillbillies, humorous scenes in which the aspects of life in a totalitarian regime are exaggerated, and commercials for products before and after absolutist rule.

Assessment: Student presentations should display an accurate knowledge of absolutism and creatively demonstrate their ideas about life under an absolute monarch.