The French Revolution: Worksheet unit
Saturday, January 15th, 2005 Yr8/9
Completed uploading the worksheet unit on The
Causes of the French Revolution, designed to be taught over three weeks. The
complete unit now looks like this:
Interactive Exercises
1. Interactive Exercise By C. Warren at Rochester Girls’ Grammar
2. Interactive Running Dictation: The Fall of the Bastille
An innovative activity designed to help students learn about the opening stages of the Revolution
3. Interactive
Running Dictation: The Flight To Varennes
An innovative activity designed to bring the drama of the King’s desperate gamble alive
Worksheets
1.
Long-Term Causes: The Three Estates - A worksheet designed to be used as a ‘back to back’ exercise in the classroom.
2. Short-Term Causes: Louis XVI - A good King? A good man? both? neither?!
3. Short-Term Causes: Marie-Antoinette - Was she even more of a liability than her husband?
4. Mid-Term
Causes: War, Trade and Enlightenment - Which of these three were the most important?
5. Changes 1788-1791: Decision-Making exercise based around the Tennis Court Oath and the debates about the new Constitution
6. The Flight To Varennes - Worksheet to accompany the interactive running dictation
exercise listed above
7.
The Trial and Execution of the King: Structured debate about whether the King deserves to die, plus grisly descriptions of the guillotine!
8. The Terror: To round the unit off, students are introduced to Danton, Robespierre and
Marat and debate which one was the most evil
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