Digital Unit Plan Template

Unit Title: The French Revolution: The Reign of Terror Name: Cameron Milledge
and the Rise of Napoleon
Content Area: Social Science Grade Level: 10th grade
CA Content Standard(s)/Common Core Standard(s):
10.2 Students compare and contrast the Glorious Revolution of England, the American Revolution, and the French Revolution
and their enduring effects worldwide on the political expectations for self-government and individual liberty.
Explain how the ideology of the French Revolution led France to develop from constitutional monarchy to democratic
despotism to the Napoleonic empire.

Big Ideas/Unit Goals:

Big Ideas
How can a revolution lead to democratic despotism such as the Committee of Public Safety?
How did the assassination of Louis XVI change the political landscape of Europe?
Unite Goals
Students will be able to use databases such as EBSCOHOST and JSTOR to find articles (Primary and Secondary) to develop
research papers in preparation for college.
Students will be able to chart and analyze the Reign of Terror, the rise of Napoleon, and while the French Revolution
brought individual liberty, reverted back to authoritarianism.

Unit Summary:

In this unit, students will learn about the Reign of Terror. In this unit, students will be able to understand how a revolution can
turn violent and can in turn be a detriment to the people who originally sought to break away from the Old Regime. The
assassination of Louis XVI changed the political landscape in France the event is the watershed moment in which the French
Revolution turned violent. With the rise of Maximilian Robespierre and the committee of Public Safety turned on the French
people and accused many people of committing treason and turning against the ideals of the revolution and sent them to their
deaths to the guillotine. With students understanding how a revolution can turn violent, they can understand how a revolution
can affect the people how were for it. With understanding the rise of Napoleon, students will also have the knowledge on how
revolutions can also turn authoritarian. Students will understand on how leaders seek to take power in a chaotic unstable
situation.
Assessment Plan:
Entry-Level: Students will work on a
graphic organizer to help them
understand key terms in the unit. With
knowing which terms students will see
during the reading, students will become
active readers and not passive readers.
Students will then create a graphic
organizer on Popplet categorizing each
bit of information they find for each term
so it helps them connect the ideas into
the bigger picture.
Formative: Students will memorize terms Summative: Students will take an exam
on flashcards on Quizlet. The reason why to assess their knowledge of the unit.
they will do this is because when
preparing to write a research paper, Students will then write a 5-7 page
students will need to understand key research paper on topics that I will
terms and flash cards will help them choose or they can make an argument
reinforce terms that will help them about a topic during the unit that I will
formulate arguments for a research approve of. This research paper will
paper. Students will also do a webercise demonstrate the students understanding
that will help them research information of the topic and they are able to use
on the Reign of Terror and the rise of higher order thinking on the topic they
Napoleon. This activity will help students will write about.
find information on websites which will
also help them on their research paper.
Students will do a quiz to assess their
knowledge on the topic after the
previous assessments. Finally, students
will learn how to use databases to find
articles for their research paper.

Lesson 1 (Teacher Lecture)

Student Learning Acceptable Evidence Lesson Activities: Student will use guided notes during the lecture to categorize
Objective: Students (Assessments): information as well as use high order thinking to incorporate their own opinion on
will be able to Guided Notes. the lecture and the material that was on it. Students after the lecture will then get
categorize and use Students have all of into groups and share what answer they wrote for each question that required high
higher order thinking the guided notes filled order thinking. In terms of helping ELLs, I will group that are doing well in my class
to answer questions and have answered and group them with ELLs that are still trying to grasp the English language. ELLs in
a group setting will feel more comfortable to speak therefore helping them achieve
on guided notes. This questions that require
their language requirements.
activity will be useful high order thinking
because it provides
scaffolding for
students who need
help categorizing
information as well as
incorporating their
own opinion on the
subject
Lesson 2 (Webercise/ iPad Lesson)
Student Learning Acceptable Evidence: Lesson Activities: Students will do the webercise at home and will retrieve
Objective: Students Webercise. Students information that each website has that I assign. The reason why this assignment is
will be able to will fill out the necessary for student is because it will help them retrieve the key information from
retrieve information necessary information websites which will help them write their research paper. It will give them the ability
on websites and write from each website to discern which information is necessary to take and what information
in information found assigned to complete
and each website the assignment.
assigned.
Lesson 3 (Graphic Organizer)
Student Learning Acceptable Evidence: Lesson Activities: With giving students key terms about the French Revolution,
Objective: Students Students will use students when reading a selection of text will become active readers and they will
will be able to Popplet to make a able to know where to find information and what to read in a text. When the
understand key terms graphic organizer that students come across a term, they will write the key bits of information that are
in a text and write key includes 6 topics and associated with it and they will color coat with different colors in the graphic
information about 4 subtopics in each organizer. The organization of information will be beneficial because they will be
able to process the information in chunks.
each topic. topic.
Unit Resources:
Teacher Lecture: : https://prezi.com/lyesjmuvcpoy/the-reign-of-terror-and-the-rise-of-napoleon-bonaparte/
Graphic Organizer: http://popplet.com/app/#/3991338
Guided Notes and Webercise are on word documents.

Useful Websites:
https://studenthandouts.com/study-games/world-history/french-revolution/
https://schoolhistory.co.uk/games/the-french-revolution-walk-the-plank-game/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTTvKwCylFY
https://frda.stanford.edu/
http://www.historyguide.org/europe/revolution.html
http://chnm.gmu.edu/revolution/