French Revolution Bundle: Journal Project, Lecture & Guillotine Day Gallery Walk

This 4 activity bundle contains all you need to comprehensively and engagingly cover the French Revolution! Set the foundations and pique their interest with the detailed Google slides lecture (with video embedded & opportunities to stop for student discussion). Get students up and moving with the "Guillotine Day" Gallery Walk covering 6 topics of interest and importance during the Reign of Terror. Unleash student creativity with the differentiated Journal Project & Readings.

1. FRENCH REVOLUTION LECTURE

This 50 slide Google Slides lecture will engage and educate your students about the causes and 3 major phases of the French Revolution. Includes embedded videos, political cartoons, and discussion questions. Formatted in a visually appealing and engaging style that highlights key information. Great for in-class lecture or a flipped classroom/digital learning resource. All lectures in my store are editable, so you can make your own additions and modifications as you see fit.

Topics in the lecture include:

• Causes: Enlightenment, economic issues, social conflict & failures of Louis XVI
• Estates General & voting by head or by order
• National Assembly & the Tennis Court Oath
• Storming of the Bastille
• Great Fear & Night of August 4
• Declaration of the Rights of Man & Citizen
• Women's March to Versailles
• Civil Constitution of the Clergy
• Constitution of 1791
• Counterrevolutionary activity: Vendee, Flight to Varennes, First Coalition & Brunswick Manifesto
• Radical Revolution: Marat, Reign of Terror, Jacobins, Sans-Culotte, Robespierre & the Committee of Public Safety
• Thermidorian Reaction & the Directory
• Questions throughout lecture for students to stop, reflect & discuss
• & more!

2. FRENCH REVOLUTION PHASE 1 DIGITAL NOTEBOOK

This digital interactive notebook for World History or AP European History covers the Causes & Moderate Phase (up to 1791) of the French Revolution. Students will watch short video clips and use curated websites to explore this fascinating era in class or asynchronously. The accompanying 20 slide teacher lecture on Google Slides will help review key concepts with your class. This is likely a 2-day assignment.

3. GUILLOTINE DAY GALLERY WALK

Explore the madness of the Reign of Terror through this Guillotine Day Gallery Walk. There are 7 stations with 3 pages of information and images, accompanied by a 2-page student worksheet. Includes optional craft for students to make their own quick and easy revolutionary cockades at the "revolutionary fashion" station! Great for World History classes!

7 Topics include:

1. Guillotine 101
2. Revolutionary Fashion
3. Execution of Louis XVI
4. Execution of Marie Antoinette
5. Emigres
6. Robespierre
7. End of the reign of Terror

4. FRENCH REVOLUTION JOURNAL PROJECT

The French Revolution is such an exciting and tumultuous period, and this helps bring it alive for students as they create a character that journeys through the Revolution’s major events. Student-centered Project-based learning is the way to keep students engaged and make material accessible to all students!

JOURNAL ASSIGNMENTS:

1. A Day in the Life (half sheet handout)
2. Ball at Versailles (with video links)
3. Estates General - Handout & Estates General debate activity. 

• Each side fills out their Cahiers and then proposes what they want. Then you vote BY ORDER & the Third Estate (majority of the class) gets overruled. 
• You or a TA can vote as the clergy
• FUN BONUS: you can have a student stand up and proclaim how fair it is & storm out to form a new National Assembly (your own little Abbe Sieyes)

4. Storming the Bastille (Handout included)

5. Reign of Terror - after GUILLOTINE DAY Gallery Walk activity

6. Thermidorian Reaction (Handout included)

7. Looking Back on the Revolution

Differentiation: the Nobility reading handouts have more vocabulary clarification and are slightly shorter. Also, a few journals have shorter writing requirements. I like to assign those to IEP or struggling students (with a few other students mixed in so it’s not too conspicuous). It also makes sense they have shorter readings and requirements as the nobility was privileged! 

Please let me know if you have questions. You can email me at yeoldeushistoryshoppe@gmail.com and I am happy to help.

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