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I'm reminded of my own tenth grade social studies project ...
I forget the actual title of the class, but it was the one that all of the 'accellerated' students had to take. The textbook for the class was Crane Brinton's Anatomy of a Revolution. He had identified 8 stages that any revolution went through, which included goodies like "Defection of the Moderates" and "Thermidore" ... anyway, for my project I wrote a fictional account of a revolution occuring in the school building, in which the 'people' (students), rose up and took over to protest the restrictive 'government' ... using as characters my classmates and teachers ...
In those days, it was regarded as a work of sheer cleverness and earned me an "A". Today, I assume, it would have earned me a suspension, probable expulsion, criminal charges, and a job at McDonalds.
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