1. SESSION: THE ANATOMY OF REVOLUTION CONCEPT: THE FEVER MODEL EGYPT UPRISINGS OF 2011 CASE STUDY SKILLS: CLAIM (THESIS) DEVELOPMENT & JUSTIFYING RESPONSES

2.  How “ill” does a society need to be in order for revolution to occur? ESSENTIAL QUESTION?

3. Terms you’ll be seeing/using: Revolution Uprising Incubation Symptomatic Crisis convalescen ce WHAT YOU’LL BE DOING TODAY: -ANALYZING AND APPLYING THE FEVER MODEL TO THE CONDITIONS PRESENT IN REVOLUTIONS

4. Preamble  What factors must exist for an illness to occur?  What differences are there between the beginning, the height of the flu, and the end? Free Write for 3 mins first Take 2 mins to talk to person next to you Person who will be 18 sooner this year speaks 1st HOW DO YOU KNOW YOU ARE SICK?

5. Nyquil Commercial Every time you have a fever due to a flu or other viral infection- your body goes through 4 stages:  Incubation  Symptomatic  Crisis  Convalescence We will now go through each stage in detail and connect it to The Square THE FEVER STAGES:

6. Illness  Cause of sickness 1 st comes to contact with individual  Infection is present  No symptoms Revolution  Take 1 min to talk with SW partner  What are some ways this stage is present in Revolution?  Here you are helping each other reviewing The Square INCUBATION STAGE MORGANA WALKS THROUGH THIS

7. Illness  You can start to see the effects of illness  Higher temperature  Cough  Weak and queasy (feel like throwing up) Revolution  Take 1 min to talk with SW partner  What are some ways this stage is present in Revolution?  Here you are helping each other reviewing The Square SYMPTOMATIC STAGE

8. Illness  Individual breaks the fever OR  Person gets worse and does not recover Revolution  Take 1 min to talk with SW partner  What are some ways this stage is present in Revolution?  Here you are helping each other reviewing The Square CRISIS STAGE

9. Illness  Recovering from illness  May be weak from experience  Comes out healthy with understanding on how not to get sick again Revolution  Take 1 min to talk with SW partner  What are some ways this stage is present in Revolution?  Here are you helping each other reviewing The Square CONVALESCENCE STAGE

10. Thesis Review:  Take 2 mins to make a list of ALL the components (parts) a successful claim has  Now take 1 min to reflect on what’s been the toughest part to writing a thesis  Take 1 min each to discuss your responses  Bring out to the floor… DEVELOPING A CLAIM STATEMENT

11. Two Documents You Need:  Thesis Outline  Thesis Brainstorm What you are doing now is working on a draft thesis for the response to the question attached to The Square documentary: Were the Tahrir Square revolutionaries successful? Expectations for this session:  You are working on draft thesis independently  You NEED TO HAVE A DRAFT CLAIM & OUTLINE OF RESPONSE WITH 3 PIECES OF EVIDENCE FROM THE SQUARE  You will be looking at peer work before end so there needs to be a product with you to work with CLAIM WRITING

12.  Why does the water in my Klean Kanteen stay inside the container?  You have to imagine that your arguments and evidence must be strong enough to “hold water”  Otherwise, what you say in your papers will “fall out” of the container “HOLDING WATER” TO YOUR JUSTIFICATIONS

13.  You’ll be looking at different thesis responses from today  Take 1 mins to look at your thesis ;  Take 1 min to look at your pieces of evidence that you selected  Take 4-5 min to read each of your thesis to your Cohort  Discuss how you all feel about your thesis- your reasoning, justifications, etc- are they strong enough to “hold water”?  How can your thesis be stronger?  How can you make your evidence and justifications stronger?  Report out to floor for debrief DEBRIEF OF CLAIM DEVELOPMENT

14.  Let’s take a few mins to make sure we are all comfortable with what we are doing for Sunday’s blog To close this session, do the following:  Re-read your claim and evidence  Re-read the feedback you got from your cohort  What’s your plan to revise your claim and evidence? You have until Sunday night to be ready CLAIM DEVELOPMENT WRAP UP

15. Social and political revolutions are meant to remove cancerous elements in the given problematic society. Real change occurs when not only the leaders of government are democratically elected by the will of the people, but when those elements that were present as causes of the revolution have been systematically removed. The success of the Tahrir Revolutionaries cannot be measured under traditional notions of victorious political struggles; old government toppled, new government in power. However, the success of the movement lies in the fact that people’s conscience towards social change has forever changed the dynamic between governed and leaders. The ability to dialogue between the varying factions in Egypt has opened new possibilities to resolve future disagreements. Finally, the people’s ability to remove any forced authority whether through elections or mass protest, now has the capacity to demonstrate the true will of the people. MY SAMPLE CLAIM STATEMENT