September 22

Social 10

I delivered a lecture/presentation on French-English relations in Canadian history. This presentation will be sent to you this afternoon, so please let me know if you didn't receive it. I have assigned you a homework assignment for the weekend (don't worry, it shouldn't take you too long to complete). I would like you to visit the hyperlink below, and write for yourself point form summary notes of the article. It explains what the equalization payment program in relatively plain English terms. We will be discussing equalization briefly on Monday, so please be prepared!

Please visit the following hyperlink to complete the homework assignment:

CBC News Indepth-Equalization

At the beginning of class I collected your Regionalism package, which was to have been completed today.

Social 20

We continued watching "The French Revolution: Years of Rage" (notice the change in the title of the movie). This segment of the film included the following key points in the French Revolution:

• the imprisonment of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette in the Temple Prison
• LaFayette's defection
• Marat calling for the September Massacres
• Danton powerless in the face of "mob rule"
• Battle of Valmy (French victory)
• French monarchy is abolished by the National Convention
• Saint-Just calls for the execution of Louis XVI
• the trial of Louis XVI before the National Convention
• the execution of Louis XVI

I also told you in class today that I will be giving you a quiz on the French Revolution. This quiz is scheduled for next Friday, September 29th (however, it may be delayed). Please be prepared to write next Friday. When studying for this exam, please concentrate on the French Revolution PowerPoint notes that I have sent to you, as well as the "Glossary of Names", the timeline, and other assignments that you may have done for me. Please use the following study guide to help focus your studying.

French Revolution Quiz Study Guide:

1. Key Terms, Key Events, Key People of the French Revolution (the following list is a good start):

• Bastille
• cahiers
• Civil Constitution of the Clergy
• Committee of Public Safety
• Danton
• Declaration of the Rights of Man
• Directory
• the Three Estates
• Estates General
• Girondins
• "Great Fear"
• Jacobins
• Lafayette
• Law of Suspects
• Levee en Masse
• Louis XVI
• Marat
• Marie-Antoinette
• the "Mountain"
• National Assembly
• National Convention
• Necker
• Old Regime
• the "Plain"
• Reign of Terror
• Republic of Virtue
• Revolutionary Tribunal
• Robespierre
• Sans-culottes
• September Massacres
• Supreme Being
• Tennis Court Oath

*This list is alphabetically arranged from a glossary of key terms that I gave to you as a handout, so study from it.

2. Structure of French Society under the Old Regime

3. Causes of the French Revolution (intellectual, political, social, economic)

4. Declaration of the Rights of Man (major concepts/ideas in the Declaration)

5. Revolutionary Governments

6. Reign of Terror

7. Changes that the Jacobins introduced into French society

8. Key Figures/Leaders of the Revolution

9. Political Spectrum

10. Results of the French Revolution

We haven't discussed some of these topics in great detail yet, but we will be getting to them next week.

Are you feeling feisty? Then you may want to play a couple of the games that I have set up hyperlinks to below (you might even learn something)

• French Revolution: Make the Teacher Walk the Plank!
• French Revolution: Fling the Teacher!
• Early French Revolution: Penalty Shootout (hopefully, you'll have better luck than England did at the last World Cup)

Don't throw me too far...