CA Standard(s) covered: 10.2 Students compare and contrast the Glorious Revolution of England, the American Revolution, and the French Revolution and their enduring effects worldwide on the political expectations for self-government and individual liberty.
Skills: Information acquisition, Vocabulary building, Cornell Notetaking, APPARTS essay, Geography
Assignments that are designated Class work on the Weekly Assignment Outline are due the day they are posted
Assignments that are designated Homework on the Weekly Assignment Outline are due the following day they are posted.
Any assignment turned in after Five days from when it was posted, will be considered late and will be graded at 10% of maximum points
Assignments with a Specific Deadline are due on that specific date. Each day that it is late will have a 10 to 20% deduction of possible points
Unit Assignments
Desert Island Government Activity - Classwork - Group Activity
Alternate Assignment - Use the current Tardy Policy and modify it so no students would ever be late or absent to class again. (Include both student and parent consequences)
James I of England - Primary Source SOAPS Analysis
Enlightenment Thinkers Chart - Uses Textbook
Alternate Assignment - Create a poster on all of the Enlightenment Thinkers that explains their major ideas
American revolution - A Revolution? - Classwork
American Revolution Cartoon Timeline - Classwork
Alternate Assignment - Create a Youtube video that explains at least six major events in the American Revolution in chronological order
Letter from Marie Antoinette - Primary Source Analysis - Classwork
Roots of the French Revolution - Classwork
1789-Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen SOAPS or APPARTS
Classic Project- (Not current, still viable)
French Revolution Storybook - Project
Alternate Assignment - Create a Youtube video that explains the same events and outcomes of the French Revolution as the Storybook assignment
The Reign of Terror - Supplemental Reading - Classwork
Napoleon as Emperor - Supplemental Reading - Classwork
Unit Notes
Unit Test Exam -Summative Assessment
No Retakes or Alternative Assignments on Exams
Unit Terms to know
Abdicated
autocracy
Bastille
Blockade
bourgeoisie,
cahiers,
capitalism,
censorship,
Continental System
coup d’état
deficit spending
Democracy (direct and representative)
despotism
émigrés,
Faction
federal
general will,
laissez faire,
mercantilism
monarchy (absolute and constitutional)
National Assembly,
nationalism,
natural law
natural rights
plebiscite,
popular sovereignty,
salon,
sans-culottes
social class
social contract
Suffrage
Tennis Court Oath,
Three Branches (judicial, legislative, executive)
Tithe
Waterloo
Unit People and Events to know
John Locke
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Baron de Montesquieu
Adam Smith
Thomas Hobbes
Mary Wollstonecraft
Denis Diderot
Voltaire
Joseph II
Catherine the Great
William of Orange
George Washington
Thomas Jefferson
Benjamin Franklin
George III
General Cornwallis
Samuel Adams
Thomas Paine
Marquis de Lafayette
Louis XIV
Louis XVI
Marie Antoinette
Georges Jacques Danton
Charles Tallyrand:
Maximilian Robespierre
Joseph Gullotine
Napoleon Bonaparte
Duke of Wellington
Events
April 19 1775
July 4 1776
July 14 1789
December 2, 1804
Essential Questions to know
How did the Glorious Revolution lead to a constitutional monarchy in England?
What were the lasting ideas of Hobbes, John Locke and “philosophes” of the Enlightenment?
What were the main issues/events in the American quest for independence?
What were the causes of the French Revolution?
What were the stages of the French Revolution?
How did Napoleon rise to and seize power?
What were the goals of the Congress of Vienna and what lasting influence did it have?
What effects did nationalism and the demand for reform have in Europe ?