Welcome to 9th grade world history
You can visit the main history page and explore other units here!
You can visit the main history page and explore other units here!
California State Standards
10.2.1 Compare the major ideas of philosophers and their effects on the democratic revolutions in England, the United States, France, and Latin America (e.g., John Locke, Charles-Louis Montesquieu, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Simón Bolívar, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison).
10.2.4 Explain how the ideology of the French Revolution led France to develop from constitutional monarchy to democratic despotism to the Napoleonic empire.
10.2.5 Discuss how nationalism spread across Europe with Napoleon but was repressed for a generation under the Congress of Vienna and Concert of Europe until the Revolutions of 1848
10.9.8 Discuss the establishment and work of the United Nations and the purposes and functions of the Warsaw Pact, SEATO, NATO, and the Organization of American States.
10.2.4 Explain how the ideology of the French Revolution led France to develop from constitutional monarchy to democratic despotism to the Napoleonic empire.
10.2.5 Discuss how nationalism spread across Europe with Napoleon but was repressed for a generation under the Congress of Vienna and Concert of Europe until the Revolutions of 1848
10.9.8 Discuss the establishment and work of the United Nations and the purposes and functions of the Warsaw Pact, SEATO, NATO, and the Organization of American States.
Common Core State Standards
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.WHST.9-10.1.b
Develop claim(s) and counterclaims fairly, supplying data and evidence for each while pointing out the strengths and limitations of both claim(s) and counterclaims in a discipline-appropriate form and in a manner that anticipates the audience's knowledge level and concerns.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.WHST.9-10.4
Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.WHST.9-10.9
Draw evidence from informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RH.9-10.2
Determine the central ideas or information of a primary or secondary source; provide an accurate summary of how key events or ideas develop over the course of the text.
Develop claim(s) and counterclaims fairly, supplying data and evidence for each while pointing out the strengths and limitations of both claim(s) and counterclaims in a discipline-appropriate form and in a manner that anticipates the audience's knowledge level and concerns.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.WHST.9-10.4
Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.WHST.9-10.9
Draw evidence from informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RH.9-10.2
Determine the central ideas or information of a primary or secondary source; provide an accurate summary of how key events or ideas develop over the course of the text.
Historical Questions
What starts a revolution?
What changes do revolutions bring?
Are revolutions for all of the people or just a select few?
How did Napoleon rise to power? How did he fall from it?
What changes do revolutions bring?
Are revolutions for all of the people or just a select few?
How did Napoleon rise to power? How did he fall from it?
Big Ideas
The Revolution Begins
The Reign Of Terror
Rise and Fall of Napoleon
Congress of Vienna
The Reign Of Terror
Rise and Fall of Napoleon
Congress of Vienna
Unit Goals
Students will be able to trace the events of the French Revolution
Students will become aware of the effects of income inequality on a society
Students will learn how dictators come to gain and lose power
Students will understand how the French Revolution weakened the power of monarchs throughout Europe
Students will understand the significance of the Congress of Vienna
Students will become aware of the effects of income inequality on a society
Students will learn how dictators come to gain and lose power
Students will understand how the French Revolution weakened the power of monarchs throughout Europe
Students will understand the significance of the Congress of Vienna
Unit Assessments
1. A short summary describing the political hierarchy of France will be written
2. A concept map that shows the reforms and ideals of the Nation Assembly will be submitted and graded
3. A short answer quiz on Napoleon’s political and tactical mistakes
4. A speculative 1-2 page essay on the effects of the Congress of Vienna will be submitted and graded
5. Chapter test
2. A concept map that shows the reforms and ideals of the Nation Assembly will be submitted and graded
3. A short answer quiz on Napoleon’s political and tactical mistakes
4. A speculative 1-2 page essay on the effects of the Congress of Vienna will be submitted and graded
5. Chapter test