Lesson Title: Reporting on the French Revolution through news articles

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Lesson Title Reporting on the French Revolution
through news articles

• Target age / Grade Level
• Middle School, 8th grade
• Kelly Mahoney

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Lesson objective

• Create a news paper article
• The French Revolution
• Minimum of 200 words
• Websites

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Introduce the learning activity

• Scenario
• Student handout

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Provide information

• Chalk board pyramid visual
• Transparencies
• Review the Student Handout

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Provide information continued

• Topics include
• -The Palace of Versailles
• - Lifestyles of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette
• - The Storming of the Bastille
• - The Tennis Court
• - The Execution of Louis XVI and Marie
  Antoinette.
• - Robespierre, and the rein of Terror

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Provide information continued

• The sites you will be using to find your
  information are below.
• http//www.mtholyoke.edu/courses/rschwart/hist255/
  kat_anna/1789.html
• http//www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook13.html
  
• http//faculty.unlv.edu/gbrown/hist462/resources/c
  hrono.htm
• http//chnm.gmu.edu/revolution/
• http//www.royalty.nu/Europe/France/MarieAntoinett
  e.html
• http//www.newadvent.org/cathen/09665a.htm
• http//www.teachers.ausd.net/antilla/bastille.htm
• http//www.chateauversailles.fr/?CFID15856685CFT
  OKEN52452101
• http//www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/louis.htm
• http//www.sparknotes.com/history/european/frenchr
  ev/htimeline.html
• http//www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1794robespierre
  .html
• http//www.historyguide.org/intellect/robespierre.
  html
• http//www.historyquide.org/intellect/tennis_oath.
  html
• http//library.thinkquest.org/C006257/revolution/t
  ennis_court_oath.shtml
• Rubric of assessment

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Provide practice

• Computer lab
• Groups
• Begin Writing

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Provide knowledge of results

• Teacher circulation
• Notes

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Review the activity

• Exit cards
• Oral presentations

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Method of assessment

• Rubric