Goals & Objectives
Goal: Students will reflect on the changes brought about the French Revolution
Objective: Through group and class discussion students will come to understand the political and ideological changes brought about by the French Revolution and the events surrounding it.
Objective: Through group and class discussion students will come to understand the political and ideological changes brought about by the French Revolution and the events surrounding it.
California State Content Standards
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 fora generation under the Congress of Vienna and Concert of Europe until the Revolutions of 1848.
10.2.5. Discuss how nationalism spread across Europe with Napoleon but was repressed fora generation under the Congress of Vienna and Concert of Europe until the Revolutions of 1848.
Common Core Literacy Standards
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RH.9-10.3
Analyze in detail a series of events described in a text; determine whether earlier events caused later ones or simply preceded them.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RH.9-10.4
Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including vocabulary describing political, social, or economic aspects of history/social science.
Analyze in detail a series of events described in a text; determine whether earlier events caused later ones or simply preceded them.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RH.9-10.4
Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including vocabulary describing political, social, or economic aspects of history/social science.
Driving Historical Question
How did Europe change after the French Revolution?
Lesson Introduction
Students will be asked to remember the Congress of Vienna and to explain its main goals. Students will then be asked WHY those specific goals were trying to be reached. The teacher then introduces the historical question to the class and explains they will be discussing it in groups.
Vocabulary
Nationalism, Democracy, Monarchy, Equality
Content Delivery
The teacher will place students in groups of four or five and present them with questions to discuss about the chapter they have been studying. Questions/topics may include “why were the leaders at the Congress of Vienna so concerned with going back to the status quo of the monarchy?” “Do you think the French Revolution and Napoleon brought a change in the expectations of European citizens in regards to their government? If so, what were they?” “With your knowledge of the shifts in ideology and politics, what do you expect to see in the upcoming chapters regarding Europe? Do you expect the status quo to remain as it was? Why or why not?” The teacher will conduct a class discussion revolving around the questions presented to the students.
Student Engagement
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Lesson Closure |
Students will discuss the critical thinking questions presented by the teacher within their groups, writing notes when necessary. Students will then participate in a whole class discussion conducted by the teacher.
Assessments
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Whip-Around: The teacher asks the students whether they think the French Revolution and the events that followed it had a positive or negative effect on Europe and a short explanation as to why they came to that conclusion.
Accommodations for English Learners, Striving Readers and Students with Special Needs |
The teacher will formatively assess the students’ progress by observing them in their small groups, gauging the knowledge they have acquired from the unit; the teacher will also do this in the whole class discussion. A unit test will be given to assess the students’ knowledge of the chapter.
Resources
The textbook can be used for this lesson
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ELs will be placed with advanced students in the small group part of the lesson so that they can hear proper sentence structure and better formulate their ideas. Striving readers can be given a graphic organizer handout that helps them better compartmentalize the effects of the French Revolution in regards to the people involved ie. Lower class, middle-class, clergy, Monarchs, etc.
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