CSULB History Social Science Lesson Plan Template

Lesson Title: French Revolution Date: 11/30/2017

Unit Central Historical How does the French Revolution connect with the American Revolution?
Question(s): How was the France Revolution impactful to the world?

Subject / Course: World History

Grade: 10th

Lesson Duration: 90 minutes

Content Learning Objective (content and product):

e.g., students will be able to [content analysis] by [product and activity].

Students will be able to analyze the historical content to connect the French Revolution to the
American Revolution by looking at primary and secondary sources.

Historical Thinking Learning Objective (thinking skill and product):

e.g., students will be able to weigh [historical thinking learning objective] by [activity].
Students will be able to identify traits and philosophical ideas that link the French Revolution to
the American Revolution.

Historical Thinking Skill, California Content, and Common Core Standards Addressed:

Historical Thinking Skill:

o Cause and Consequence
o Comparison
Common Core Standards:
Reading Standards
Cite specific textual evidence to support analysis of primary and
secondary sources, attending to such features as the date and origin
of the information.
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.
Analyze in detail a series of events described in a text; determine
whether earlier events caused later ones or simply preceded them.
Compare and contrast treatments of the same topic in several primary
and secondary sources.
Content Standards
o 10.2.3: Understand the unique character of the American Revolution, its spread to
other parts of the world, and its continuing significance to other nations.
o 10.2.3: Explain how the ideology of the French Revolution led France to develop
from constitutional monarchy to democratic despotism to the Napoleonic empire.

Narrative Summary of Tasks / Actions:

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Summarize the step-by-step parts of the lesson with time estimates for each part.
1. Quick video of review from Versaille: Countdown to Revolution. Why was the meeting of
the Three Estates unequal? (5 min)
2. Analyze painting of the Tennis Court Oath. How does it relate to the previous lesson? (5
min)
3. Lectures about the end of the French Revolution and the Reign of Terror (30 min)
4. Students look over documents and pictures from the lecture and determine if the revolution
can be considered a social, economic, or political issue. (10 min)
5. Students, using their prior knowledge of the American Revolution, compare and contrast
the actions and reasoning behind the French Revolution. (10 min)
6. Five Minute stretch-break. (5 min)
7. Begin lecture on the Haitian Revolution, what was Haiti to the French. (15 min)
8. Have students do a quick right on why, given the information given in the beginning of the
Haitian Revolution lecture, a revolution would occur in the colony. This is there exit slip.
(10 min)

Materials / Equipment:

List everything you will need to teach this lesson:

Power Point Lecture
Primary Source Paintings
Clip from Documentary
Primary Source Documents

Inquiry-Based Lesson Plan for History-Social Science

1. Anticipatory Set Time: 10 min

Students will watch a clip from a documentary and discuss briefly about why the Three
Estate system was flawed.
Have students then look at a painting of the Tennis Court Agreement and what it means to
the revolution, given their prior knowledge from the previous lesson.

2. Central Historical Question for Lesson Time: 5 min

What are some of the comparisons to the French Revolution to the American Revolution?
How did they differ?
Was the revolution a social, economic, or political affair?

3. Teacher Input (delivery of historical context) Time: 45 min

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First, on the end of the French Revolution and the Reign of Terror.
o Providing context, primary sources, and secondary sources.
Second, and introduction to Haiti.
o Learn more about the country before the revolution.
o Give primary source examples on what life was like in Haiti while colonized.

4. Student Activity and Investigation (w/

Time: 20 min
differentiation)

Cause and Consequence Triangle

Have students review notes, primary and secondary sources to discuss why the French
Revolution was social, economic, or politically caused.
Compare it also to the American Revolution in its ideals, actions, and reasoning.
NOTE: You should also create and include in packet ONE SLIDE of directions.

5. Lesson Assessment (w/ differentiation) Time: 10 min

Students will discuss the comparisons and differences between the French and American
Revolution.
Citing sources to prove their points.

6. Closure Time: 5 min

Have the students give a quick write about they believe will happen to the French colony of Haiti after the
French Revolution.

7. Student Reflection (metacognition) Time:

Have the students give a quick write about they believe will happen to the French colony of Haiti after the
French Revolution.