DRAW A LINE SEPARATING TODAY & YESTERDAY1) Write: Date: 09/07/10, Topic: French Revolution 2) Next line, write “Opener #9” and then:

1) Write 1 high+1 low in last 24 hours2) Rate your understanding of yesterday: lost<1-5>too easy (3 is perfect)

3) Respond to the Opener by writing at least 1 sentences about:Your opinions/thoughts OR/AND

Questions sparked by the clip OR/AND

Summary of the clip OR/AND

Announcements: None

Agenda1) Causes for the French Revolution

Primary Objective1) What causes people to revolt?

Reminder1) Find & complete your 4 news pods

Notes #9a, Title: “French Revolution Notes” 1) Problems before French Revolutiona) Enlightenment Ideas: Ideas of equality spreadb) King Louis XVI: Weak, indecisive, wanted to

please everyone.c) King’s Debt: Wars with UK (FI War and US rev,

50% taxes go to pay interest on debt. Inflation b/c king prints money. Begins taxing nobles.

d) Nobles: Want king to give up power like UK.e) Bourgeoisie: Wanted power nobles enjoyed.f) San-culottes: Inflation and poor crops make

bread unaffordable. Nobles want to tax poor.g) Famine: Rare harsh winter destroys harvest

1st: Clergy 2nd: Nobles 3rd: Reg Ppl

1) Problems before French Revolutiona) Enlightenment Ideas: Ideas of equality spread

1st: Clergy 2nd: Nobles 3rd: Reg Ppl

1) Problems before French Revolutionb) King Louis XVI: Weak, indecisive, wanted to

please everyone.

1st: Clergy 2nd: Nobles 3rd: Reg Ppl

1) Problems before French Revolutionc) King’s Debt: Wars with UK (FI War and US rev,

50% taxes go to pay interest on debt. Inflation b/c king prints money. Begins taxing nobles.

1st: Clergy 2nd: Nobles 3rd: Reg Ppl

1) Problems before French Revolutiond) Nobles: Want king to give up power like UK.

1st: Clergy 2nd: Nobles 3rd: Reg Ppl

1) Problems before French Revolutione) Bourgeoisie: Wanted power nobles enjoyed.

1st: Clergy 2nd: Nobles 3rd: Reg Ppl

1) Problems before French Revolutionf) San-culottes: Inflation and poor crops make

bread unaffordable. (Nobles want to tax 3rd E.)

1st: Clergy 2nd: Nobles 3rd: Reg Ppl

1) Problems before French Revolutiong) Famine: Rare harsh winter destroys harvest

1st: Clergy 2nd: Nobles 3rd: Reg Ppl

Notes #9a, Title: “French Revolution Notes” 1) Problems before French Revolutiona) Enlightenment Ideas: Ideas of equality spreadb) King Louis XVI: Weak, indecisive, wanted to

please everyone.c) King’s Debt: Wars with UK (FI War and US rev,

50% taxes go to pay interest on debt. Inflation b/c king prints money. Begins taxing nobles.

d) Nobles: Want king to give up power like UK.e) Bourgeoisie: Wanted power nobles enjoyed.f) San-culottes: Inflation and poor crops make

bread unaffordable. Nobles want to tax poor.g) Famine: Rare harsh winter destroys harvest

1st: Clergy 2nd: Nobles 3rd: Reg Ppl

2) Estate General, May 1789: France’s parliament, (last assembled 1614), to fix these problems.

Each estate 1 vote, so 1st and 2nd override 3rd.

Journal #9a, Title “Cahier de Doléances”

Pick an estate and convince the King and write your complain (cahier)ADD A HOOK: Something to get them interested in the thesis you are about the present.1) Thesis: What you want.2) Reason 1

Use supporting ideas or facts3) Reason 2

Use supporting ideas or facts4) Reason 3

Use supporting ideas or factsADD A CONCLUSION: The one last final thought you want them to have when you end.

Notes #9b, Title: “French Revolution Notes” 3) Tennis Court Oath: 3rd Estate wanted to voted

by head, not by estate (1+2: 591, 3: 610). Locked out of the hall, went to the courts next door to swear to create their own new National Assembly and a constitution.

Power is not given, it’s created!

Journal #9b, Title “Liberté, égalité, fraternité!”Verbally persuade others (1st, 2nd, 3rd) to ditch old

ways for an new enlightened society where the gov serves the ppl and each man is equal and judges by their abilities not birth.

Notes #9b, Title: “French Revolution Notes” 4) Storming of the Bastille (July 14, 1789, French

Independence Day): King call Swiss troops to Paris, 3rd Estate storm Bastille prison in search for gunpowder. REVOLUTION BEGINS!

Notes #9b, Title: “French Revolution Cont.” 5) Great Fear, 7-8/1789: Chaos all over France,

poor take revenge of nobles + rich. Mob demanded King/Queen move to Paris.

6) Robespierre (1758-1794): Short gifted speaker becomes leader of the revolution + one of history’s bloodiest leaders.

Journal #9c, Title “Video: French Revolution”

1) Copy Source Title: Terror Robespierre!

2…) Discuss questions on the board with a partner. Summarize your discussion (include their name at the end). Remember participation points are deducted if off task. 5 Reading/Film Qs Come From These Journal SectionsTime Bookmark: 00:00