{"id":207,"date":"2005-01-15T12:37:19","date_gmt":"2005-01-15T11:37:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/activehistory.co.uk\/WordPress\/2005\/01\/15\/the-french-revolution-worksheet-unit\/"},"modified":"2007-11-12T15:29:53","modified_gmt":"2007-11-12T14:29:53","slug":"the-french-revolution-worksheet-unit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/key-stage\/year-9-history\/the-french-revolution-worksheet-unit\/","title":{"rendered":"The French Revolution: Worksheet unit"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

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… <\/p>\n

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