Let the Queen Live?!

Read p. 220   The Mountain v. Girodin
Should the King be Alive?  Is it better for the revolution if he is dead?  Why?>
Which factions would you support?  Why?  Should we kill the Queen?  why or why not?

220-221
See VOICES
Characterize the execution of the King.  Use 5 adjectives
Describe the Reign of Terror.  Choose 6 descriptive words from the text.  List the number of dead and the percentages

The New Constitution; the Paris Commune

READ 216-218

1. How did King Louis respond to the Declaration of Rights of Man?
2. Describe what happens at Versailles?  Why did Louis accept the 'decrees' of the National Assembly?
3. How did the Church change?
4. Describe the New Constitution.

REad:  The Rise of the Paris commune
5.   Who were the 'sans culottes'?  What were their actions?

Robespierre and the Estates General.

HW  Read pp 215-15 THere were 3 estates in the Estates General (their assembly or congress)

1. Describe the method of voting in this house of representatives.  What changes did the 3rd estate want?
2. What did the king want?
3. What did the 3rd estate do whey they were locked out?
4. Describe the Tennis Court Oath
5. Describe the Declaration of the Rights of Man. list 3 important ideas in this document.
6. How were women treated in each document?  What did Olympia De Gouges demand?
7. Go back to the Tennis court oath...Describe the rebellion throughout France...start wit the Storming of the Bastille...The GREAT FEAR!!  Describe it!!

To Versailles!

Respond to the questions about the pictures on 216.
Write your speech as a woman in one of the pictures.  Marching to Versailles Palace to take the
King and Queen to Paris!!

HW:  Monday Read 212-13
What were the 3 estates? 

Describe them (each class)
What were the social inequalitites
What pushed the people to revolt?  What ideas did they fight for?
Desribe the bourgeoisie.  What was the bourgeoisie unhappy about  What ideas were attrative to them?  Wha did they oppose 'absolute monarchy'?
Who was Louis XVI???

Essential Questions #2:  Why is it important to remember events of a nation?  Events in other
parts of the world?  What are two important historical events you remember from your lifetime?
What are two important events you enjoyed learning about in history class?