Wednesday May 12

Use your textbook and the links provided to answer the following questions.  

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Fear

1. What was the Great Fear in your own words. Answer in 1-2 sentences.

2. What were some of the causes of the Great Fear.  

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Declaration_of_the_Rights_of_Man_and_of_the_Citizen

3. What is the Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen?

4. Why was it significant

Go to the next link and look at the picture.

http://i795.photobucket.com/albums/yy233/historyproject420/frenchrevolution.jpg

5. What is happening in the picture?

6. The French Revolution was one where the women took an active role in the fighting.  Why do you think that the artist chose to paint the person carrying the flag the way he did?

http://www.historywiz.com/womensmarch.htm

7. What was the March on Versailles and why did the women go?

8. Look at the picture in the link, what might the woman in the gold dress be thinking? What about the woman in the hat tugging her arm?

Tuesday May 11

Hello, here are your activities for todays class. You can work in pairs and e-mail me your work when finished a southwell_j@sd36.bc.ca.

First you are to work on your projects. We will be in this lab both today and tomorrow.

Go to the following link and attempt the quiz. You can use your textbook and the internet to help you with the answers.
http://www.quia.com/sh/2658.html

Next, answer the following quesiton using your textbook, the internet and this student created video at the link below.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxdqZ7MAYPw

1. What was the Bastille and what was it the symbol of?
2. List some of the causes of the French Revolution.
3. What happens to both King Louis and Marie Antoinette?
4. What did 'the people' (the Third Estate) want from the revolution (at least at first)?
5. What are some of the long term impacts of the French Revolution?