Pre-lesson Homework:Reading on Revolutions
Title: / Revolutions / # of Days: 3
Unit Essential Question: / What were the causes of revolutions and struggles for independence?
Objective: / SWBAT: Synthesize the ways in which the American, French, and Latin American Revolutions were similar and different
SWBAT: Describe the ways that the Enlightenment philosophers (Locke, Voltaire, Montesquieu, Diderot, Hobbes, Rousseau, Smith, and Wollstonecraft) inspire revolution throughout the globe
NCSOS: / WH.H.6.1 Explain how new ideas and theories of the universe altered political though and affected economic and social conditions (e.g., Scientific Revolution, Enlightenment, rationalism, secularism, humanism, tolerance, empiricism, natural rights, contractual government, laissez-faire economics, Bacon, Descartes, Galileo, Newton, inductive and deductive reasoning, heliocentric, inquisition, works of Locke, Montesquieu, Rousseau, Bolivar, Jefferson, Paine, Adam Smith., etc.)
WH.H.6.2 Analyze political revolutions in terms of their causes and impact on independence, governing bodies and church-state relations (e.g., Glorious Revolution, American Revolution, French Revolution, Russia Revolution, Haitian, Mexican, Chinese, etc.)
Common Core: / Reading, Writing, Speaking/Listening
Topics Covered: / American, French, Haitian Revolutions
Test Questions: / 8. Who wrote Common Sense? What role did Common Sense play in the American Revolution?
9. For each of the following revolutionary documents, write one philosopher and his idea that helped inspire it. Declaration of Independence & Declaration of Rights of Man and of the Citizen
10. Which philosophe had the greatest impact on revolutionaries? Justify your response with evidence
11. How does France move away from Enlightenment thinking after the initial revolution?
12. Draw a cause and effect chart showing a shift in power in France from the monarchy to the Republic.
13. For France, US, Haiti: identify the factor that led to revolution and whether or not goals were achieved
14. What characteristics do all revolutions possess? Justify with an example from class.
Bell Ringer (15 minutes)
· What was the Reign of Terror? Complete cartoons if necessary (Page 604-605 in text)
Activity # 1 – Writing Practice (20 minutes)
· 5-paragraph Outline on Reign of Terror
Transition (5 minutes)
· On board: Write three qualities of a successful revolution; three reasons that a revolution fails
Activity # 3 – Documentary (45 minutes)
· Watch documentary Egalité for All: Toussaint Louverture and the Haitian Revolution. http://haitionlineusa.com/egalite-for-all-toussaint-louverture-and-the-haitian-revolution-watch/( 45 minutes)
· End the forth clip at 8:00 minutes
· Students follow along and complete revolution fever model: symptoms, rising fever, crisis, and backlash.
Activity # 3
Students write down three questions that they have about the revolution and have a class discussion about the revolution.
Haitian Revolution
Please answer in your notebook.
Guided movie questions:
1. How did the philosophers of the Enlightenment influence France?
2. What were the working conditions like for the slaves of Haiti?
3. Who was Toussaint Louverture?
4. What happened when the mixed population asked for civil liberties from the new French government?
5. What happened on the night of August 22nd 1791?
6. What was happening to the democratic revolution on France?
7. How did the Spanish tip the balance in the favor of the slave rebellion? Why did they do this?
8. Did the slave rebellion reach its goal? How?
9. How did foreign slave owners fell about the emancipation of French slaves?
Haitian Revolution
Please answer in your notebook.
Guided movie questions:
1. How did the philosophers of the Enlightenment influence France?
2. What were the working conditions like for the slaves of Haiti?
3. Who was Toussaint Louverture?
4. What happened when the mixed population asked for civil liberties from the new French government?
5. What happened on the night of August 22nd 1791?
6. What was happening to the democratic revolution on France?
7. How did the Spanish tip the balance in the favor of the slave rebellion? Why did they do this?
8. Did the slave rebellion reach its goal? How?
9. How did foreign slave owners fell about the emancipation of French slaves?
Haitian Revolution
Please answer in your notebook.
Guided movie questions:
1. How did the philosophers of the Enlightenment influence France?
2. What were the working conditions like for the slaves of Haiti?
3. Who was Toussaint Louverture?
4. What happened when the mixed population asked for civil liberties from the new French government?
5. What happened on the night of August 22nd 1791?
6. What was happening to the democratic revolution on France?
7. How did the Spanish tip the balance in the favor of the slave rebellion? Why did they do this?
8. Did the slave rebellion reach its goal? How?
9. How did foreign slave owners fell about the emancipation of French slaves?
Haitian Revolution
Please answer in your notebook.
Guided movie questions:
1. How did the philosophers of the Enlightenment influence France?
2. What were the working conditions like for the slaves of Haiti?
3. Who was Toussaint Louverture?
4. What happened when the mixed population asked for civil liberties from the new French government?
5. What happened on the night of August 22nd 1791?
6. What was happening to the democratic revolution on France?
7. How did the Spanish tip the balance in the favor of the slave rebellion? Why did they do this?
8. Did the slave rebellion reach its goal? How?
9. How did foreign slave owners fell about the emancipation of French slaves?
Guided documentary questions:
1. How did the philosophers of the Enlightenment influence France?
2. What were the working conditions like for the slaves of Haiti?
3. Who was Toussaint Louverture?
4. What happened when the mixed population asked for civil liberties from the new French government?
5. What happened on the night of August 22nd 1791?
6. What was happening to the democratic revolution on France?
7. How did the Spanish tip the balance in the favor of the slave rebellion? Why did they do this?
8. Did the slave rebellion reach its goal? How?
9. How did foreign slave owners fell about the emancipation of French slaves?
Guided documentary questions:
1. How did the philosophers of the Enlightenment influence France?
2. What were the working conditions like for the slaves of Haiti?
3. Who was Toussaint Louverture?
4. What happened when the mixed population asked for civil liberties from the new French government?
5. What happened on the night of August 22nd 1791?
6. What was happening to the democratic revolution on France?
7. How did the Spanish tip the balance in the favor of the slave rebellion? Why did they do this?
8. Did the slave rebellion reach its goal? How?
9. How did foreign slave owners fell about the emancipation of French slaves?
Guided documentary questions:
1. How did the philosophers of the Enlightenment influence France?
2. What were the working conditions like for the slaves of Haiti?
3. Who was Toussaint Louverture?
4. What happened when the mixed population asked for civil liberties from the new French government?
5. What happened on the night of August 22nd 1791?
6. What was happening to the democratic revolution on France?
7. How did the Spanish tip the balance in the favor of the slave rebellion? Why did they do this?
8. Did the slave rebellion reach its goal? How?
9. How did foreign slave owners fell about the emancipation of French slaves?
Guided documentary questions:
1. How did the philosophers of the Enlightenment influence France?
2. What were the working conditions like for the slaves of Haiti?
3. Who was Toussaint Louverture?
4. What happened when the mixed population asked for civil liberties from the new French government?
5. What happened on the night of August 22nd 1791?
6. What was happening to the democratic revolution on France?
7. How did the Spanish tip the balance in the favor of the slave rebellion? Why did they do this?
8. Did the slave rebellion reach its goal? How?
9. How did foreign slave owners fell about the emancipation of French slaves?