Another Important Revolution

Anticipatory Set:

How many different revolutions are you aware of? Today we are going to discuss the French Revolution. There were many other revolutions that took place around the world that had a great amount of influence. The French Revolution was one that had the peasants overthrow the monarchy in a very bloody and gruesome revolution. Watch the fifteen minute video on the French Revolution and it’s beginning to grasp some of the main reasons as well as some background to the war.

Task:

Students will be able to make a five slide power point of their 5 most important events of the French Revolution with a picture or clipart for each and present it to the class.

Process:

1. Put into groups of 2
2. Discuss the task of the student.
3. Give them the information of sites that are predetermined.
4. They will be given a rubric to follow for the slides.
5. Next within your group go to www.unitedstreaming.com . Search for French Revolution. Go to the video containing “French Revolution, The: Part I: April, 1789 - September, 1791: Causes and Onset of the Rebellion” and watch this video.
6. When you have completed watching the video go to the listed websites below and find five important facts that you want to share with the rest of the class.
7. Create a PowerPoint that will be shared with the rest of the class with a clipart or picture that you found with the proper website posted below it. Also be sure to add a background to the slides as well. The font is upon your discretion to change. Put at least one clipart or picture on each slide and one slide per important fact.
8. After completing your PowerPoint you are to as a group to present this to the class. Both members of the group must participate in the presentation of the PowerPoint.
9. You will need to have a printed copy of the PowerPoint with all five or six slides (if you have a title slide) to hand in to the teacher at the time of the presentation. Also you will be graded with the rubric that is provided below.

Resources:

Computer Lab

Internet:

http://chnm.gmu.edu/revolution/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Revolution

Evaluation:

They will present their five slide power point to the class. They will determine how the slides are presented and also have both students participate in the presentation of their PowerPoint. The following rubric will be used in grading their presentations:

	Little effort was put forth in the work and the task was not completed. 1 point	A fair amount of effort was put in the work and the task was partially completed. 3 points	There was a large effort put forth in the work and the task was successfully completed. 5 points
There was five important points presented to the class.
They successfully gave sufficient information about the five points that they were selected.
There is at least one picture or clipart.
Both of the students presented part of the PowerPoint to the class.

Conclusion:

The history of the world is a vast amount of information. There is still a lot of it that is missing and unknown to us even though we have discovered so much. Learning about the French Revolution has opened another door to a whole new world of history of another culture. They like the American culture succeeded in a revolution, but both of these revolutions had different things that were accomplished. From this we find that no two revolutions are entirely the same and the outcome is not always for the best. Learning this very small part of history is another piece of information that you can use in learning further about French culture and history. This is just a stepping stone into a lot of other information that can be found out about hundreds of different civilizations. This was just one other important revolution as there are many more that could be learned about. So remember what you learned and hopefully you can appreciate the history of other cultures as well as the one of our own country.