Walking together: French Revolution-

Project: “Wind of change in France”

Students: 2do. Año para la Educación Secundaria ( Ex-Secundaria Básica)

Curriculum subject: History

Topic: French Revolution

Aims:

Content:

To explore about the French Revolution based on students interest, looking for and processing information.

Language:

To find out about new vocabulary, practicing reading, listening, inferring, and explaining.

Thinking skill:

To understand causes and effects of the French Revolution, giving opinion, reporting.

Social skill:

Cooperation.

Teaching sequence:

Activity 1

Lead in .Pre -Task

Teacher asks students to think about the term revolution in order to activate students’ background knowledge. What is it? Why does it happen? Who does it involve? Does it still exist?

Then the teacher shows them a wordle where they have to find the meaning of revolution. (This is from intra-net)Teacher checks all and asks one of the students to write the definition of revolution on the board.(Blackboard is always important too)

Core part:

Teacher tells students that they are going to watch a video("A tale of two cities") in which they will be able to find out more information about revolution. After watching the video teacher asks students how they felt (emotional reaction), teacher writes students vocabulary/adjectives on the board.
Then, in group students discuss where, when and why it takes place.Students take notes. Teacher monitors, corrects and provides essential information. Each group tells the whole class what they have found out.
.I/We think....that it takes place in..

From my point of view....
In my opinion....

Closure:
Teacher tells students that they are going to watch again, a special sequence of the video in which students have to listen carefully paying attention to some words.
After that students have to complete the table with the help of the cloud wordle.
Teacher asks students if there is any vocabulary of which they are unsure, "Epoch", "incredulity"....Teacher has to use context to define or provide a definition.
.

Find the opposite:

It was the best of times,
it was the age of wisdom,	it was the age of
it was the epoch of belief,	It was the epoch of
It was the season of Light,	It was the season of
it was the spring of hope

Teacher asks two or three volunteers to read the entire sentence.
Teacher asks students what they have noted about the sentences. They will probably have noted the repetition of words.
Teacher explains to students that the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses or sentences is called
"anaphora".

After that students have to create a design drawing to represent different perspectives on the contraversial concepts.

It was the best of times, it was the worst of

times . . . it was the season of Light, it was the

season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it

was the winter of despair . . .—from "A tale of two cities"

Task 2

Lead in-Pre-task

Teacher selects a quatation that will be printed in blue, white and red (French flag's colours) and hung over the classroom doorway in order to draw students' attention. Teacher asks students if the quatation reminds them what they watched last class brainstorming the meaning of the quatation.

"The French revolution taught us the rights of man"
-Thomas Sankara-

After that, teacher hands out photocopies to improve students' vocabulary, they have to match words to pictures.

bourgeoisie
fraternity
monarch
peasant

Core part:
Teacher tells students that they are going to watch a video about French Revolution . They will be able to watch this video as many times as possible to take down details about it.

After watching the video they have to create a timeline about the events in chronological order during the French revolution.

Closure:
Teacher asks students to describe each picture according what they have found out about these events.