This Lesson focus on the influence of the American Revolution had in Europe, especially in France.
Goals and Objectives
Objective: Students will list and summarize the reasons a nation has a revolution. Students will analyze the long lasting effects of the American Revolution had on not only America, but across the world, especially in France.
Goals: Students will be able to critically think on the causes of a revolution and why a nation would partake in one. Students
will connect this event to modern times and how it influences their lives today.
Goals: Students will be able to critically think on the causes of a revolution and why a nation would partake in one. Students
will connect this event to modern times and how it influences their lives today.
California Content Standards and Common Core Standards
8.1 Students understand the major events preceding the founding of the nation and relate their significance to the
development of American constitutional democracy.
3.Analyze how the American Revolution affected other nations, especially France.
Common Core
WHST 6-8.4: Produce a clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience
WHST 6-8.10: write routinely over extended time frames for a range of discipline-specific tasks, purposes, and audiences
development of American constitutional democracy.
3.Analyze how the American Revolution affected other nations, especially France.
Common Core
WHST 6-8.4: Produce a clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience
WHST 6-8.10: write routinely over extended time frames for a range of discipline-specific tasks, purposes, and audiences
Lesson Intro
Teacher will lead the class in a discussion based off of one of the essential question, tapping into their prior knowledge, critically thinking skills, and prediction skills. This will be followed by a short video summarizing the American Revolutionary war providing the background to what the lecture is based on.
Vocabulary
Students will fill out blanks on their guided notes on key figures (Ben Franklin, George Washington, The Marquis of Lafayette, King Louis XVI, Marie Antoinette,
Girondins and the Jacobins, Robespierre), events (The Reign of Terror), documents (The Treaty of Amity and Commerce, Treaty of Alliance), and vocab words (bourgeois and abolish)
Girondins and the Jacobins, Robespierre), events (The Reign of Terror), documents (The Treaty of Amity and Commerce, Treaty of Alliance), and vocab words (bourgeois and abolish)
Content Delivery (Lecture)
The teacher will give a lecture presentation on the French involvement in the American Revolution leading into discussion on the French Revolution. The lecture will discuss reasons for joining the war, reasons for starting a revolution, and analyzing why revolution spread with such fervor across the globe. Guided notes will accompany the lecture.
Student Engagement
During the Lecture students will be completing guided notes which help them record and organize the information from the lecture. The guided notes will also compose of a note sheet and graphic organizers that pull on students critically thinking skills (Notes to reasons leading to French involvement in the American Revolution, Venn diagram comparing American to French revolution beginning, and relationship chart between American Revolution and todays world)
Lesson Closure
Students will fill out the final graphic organizer in which the students will summarize the theoretical points of the lecture as well as predict and connect to the future (including to their lives today).
Assessment
Formative-during the lecture the teacher will stop to ask critical thinking questions for the students to respond to on a graphic organizer and orally. During this activity the teacher will be walking around the classroom looking at student’s responses as well as provided feedback to students’ oral responses.
Summative: Evaluation of the graphic organizers and chart will help the teacher determine if the goals and objectives of the lesson had been met.
Summative: Evaluation of the graphic organizers and chart will help the teacher determine if the goals and objectives of the lesson had been met.
Accommodations for English Learners, Striving Readers, and Students with Special Needs
The guided notes provide a scaffold for students with special needs, striving readers, and ELs. The graphic organizers also assist all accommodation students by provided a scaffold for them to identify key facts/ideas of the lecture. The option for oral responses will be given so ELs can articulate their thoughts without having to solely rely on writing. Students will use these supports as they work through the critical thinking questions.
Resources
George and Lafayette
http://www.mountvernon.org/educational-resources/encyclopedia/washington-lafayette
American Library
http://www.americaslibrary.gov/jb/revolut/jb_revolut_francoam_1.html
Encyclopedia Britannica
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/219315/French-Revolution
The History Channel
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwWi0zdF7wk
http://www.mountvernon.org/educational-resources/encyclopedia/washington-lafayette
American Library
http://www.americaslibrary.gov/jb/revolut/jb_revolut_francoam_1.html
Encyclopedia Britannica
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/219315/French-Revolution
The History Channel
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwWi0zdF7wk