Unit Title: Russian Revolution Lesson Title: Bolshevik Revolution

Goals & Objectives

Goal for this lesson is for students to comprehend multiple events that led up to the
Bolshevik Revolution.
Objective of the lesson is for students to evaluate the vital role that Lenin had of
leading the Bolshevik Revolution.
Students will to critically analyze and interpret primary source political cartoons
and written letters about the dissatisfaction of the Russian government.
Students will also share their reflections of the primary sources with a partner and
the class.
California State Content Standards
10.7.1. Understand the causes and consequences of the Russian Revolution, including Lenin's
use of totalitarian means to seize and maintain control (e.g., the
Gulag).
Common Core Literacy Standards
CCSS.RH. 10.1. Cite specific textual evidence to support analysis of primary and secondary
sources, attending to such features as the date and origin of the
information.
CCSS.RH. 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.
CCSS.RH. 10.9. Compare and contrast treatments of the same topic in several primary and
secondary sources.
CCSS. WHST. 10.9. Draw evidence from informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and
research.
Driving Historical Question
Why did the Russian people support a Communist government over a Democratic government?
How do different events connect together under a umbrella?
Did the Russian people have justification for a Revolution?
How did Lenin have a key role in the Russian Revolution?
Lesson Introduction (Anticipatory Set/Hook/Accessing Prior Knowledge) Time: 10 min
day 1
The teacher will hand out an entry level assessment work sheet in the beginning of class.
Students will reflect on the events of the French Revolution, and will be asked if it was a single
event that cause the revolution or a build up of multiple events combined together. Then
students will be hooked by looking at the outcomes of the Russian Revolution. Having the
students look at the outcomes of the revolution will help them to think about how and why
those events happened. Than students are asked to do a visual ranking chart of putting a

number next to the Russian Revolution event they think is most significant to least significant.
After students fill out the worksheet they then will share their answers with their peers.
Purpose of the activity will help students reflect that the Russian Revolution was caused by
multiple events combined together; similar with the French Revolution events added up
together to cause their revolution.
Vocabulary (Content Language Development) Time: 10 min day 2
The vocab words will be highlighted in the guided notes that go along with the Prezi
presentation. Some of the key words: industrialization, unions, Karl Marx, Socialism, Vladimir
Lenin, Bolsheviks (Red Army), and White Army. After students are done with their guided notes
the teacher will go over the answers of the vocabulary terms with the class. The teacher will
asks students to share what they know about each term.
Content Delivery (Method of Instruction) Time: 30 min lesson broken into 2 days 15
min presentation on each day
Day 1
The teacher will share the Prezi presentation on the Bolshevik Revolution and students will
follow along with the guided notes handed out in the beginning of class. After each section of
the presentation students will view pictures and symbols that deal with the topic. Than
students will have an engaging question that reflects with the topic. Also when the PowerPoint
gets to the topic of the primary source, students will than work on the primary source
documents to compliment the PowerPoint lesson. The primary source document will allow
students to go more in depth with the information. The day 1 lesson will last until the second
primary source document that will be finished up on day 2.
Day 2
Students will finish working on the primary source document 2, and the teacher will continue to
finish up the PowerPoint from yesterday. Once the teacher is done with the PowerPoint, the
students will ask the teacher any questions they have, or clarifications on the information they
just learned.
Student Engagement (Critical Thinking & Student Activities) Time: 30 min, 10 min
should be spent on each primary source document
Students will be given a guided notes mind mad that will go along with the PowerPoint. This will
help students follow along with the Prezi presentation and engage with the topics of the lesson
by answering questions at the end of each topic. There are also visual pictures that help
students connect with the topic too.
Students will also engage with 3 primary source documents that connect with the Prezi
presentation. Students will engage with the primary source by close reading the document and
critically reflect what the document means to them. The teacher will assign the students with a
partner to work together in analyzing each source. By having the students work in pairs to gives

them an opportunity to share different points of view with one another. Once the students are
done working on the primary source documents each pair will share their interpretation with
the rest of the class.
Lesson Closure Time: 10 min
Once the students are done with the primary source documents the teacher will ask the
students to pair up into groups of 3-4, and ask one another how each 3 source documents are
connected together. The students will compare and contrast each source to one another, and
there will be a group leader who will write down their groups argument and opinion of the
sources. Once the groups had a good amount of time to talk about the sources the teacher will
ask each group to share their answer with the rest of the class.
Assessments (Formative & Summative)
Formative Assessment of Worksheet 1 What Happened in the Russian Revolution- The teacher
will cue how well the students visually ranked each event of the Russian Revolution. If the
teacher notices the students are off with their rankings, than the teacher will need to go more
in depth in explaining the events.
Formative Assessment of the 3 Primary Source Documents- The teacher will look into how well
the students were able to close read and analyze the primary sources. Students will be assessed
on how well they answer the questions that go along with the primary sources. If the students
struggle with analyzing the primary sources, than the teacher can spend more time with them
explaining how to close read a primary source, and how to extract important information by
highlighting it.
Accommodations for English Learners, Striving Readers and Students with Special Needs
This lesson accommodates EL students with lots on visuals in the presentation to visually
connect the topic with a picture. Also EL students will benefit working in pairs with other
students in the class to help guide them through the primary source documents.
Also El students will benefit from the visual ranking worksheet to visually see the key events of
the Russian Revolution.
Students with special needs will benefit from the guided notes to help them follow along with
the presentation, and highlight the key concepts of the lesson.
Striving Readers will benefit from the guided questions in the primary source documents to
help them focus on key points of the reading.
Resources (Books, Websites, Handouts, Materials)
http://apcentral.collegeboard.com/apc/members/courses/teachers_corner/29442.html
http://soviethistory.macalester.edu/index.php?page=subject&SubjectID=1917february&Y
ear=1917

http://prezi.com/gustymv09veb/?utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=copy
http://www.marxists.org/
http://www.alexanderpalace.org/palace/
http://sheg.stanford.edu/
http://docsteach.org/