Alabama Social Studies SS24.WH.2b

Social Studies9th GradeThe Age of Revolution

The Standard

Identify the objectives of different factions in the French Revolution.

2024 Alabama Course of Study: Social Studies

Teacher's field guide

What Students Need to Do: Students identify what royalists, constitutional monarchists, Jacobins, and sans-culottes wanted. They compare the groups' goals for the king, political power, and bread prices.
What Mastery Looks Like: A student can match a call for a limited king to constitutional monarchists and a call for bread price caps to sans-culottes. They can explain why royalists and Jacobins disagreed about the king.
Common Misconceptions: Students may think every group in the Revolution wanted to remove the king. They may also miss that Jacobins and sans-culottes both opposed the monarchy but put different demands first.
How to Assess It: On an exit ticket, ask students to match four demands to four factions: restore the king, limit the king's power, create a republic, and cap bread prices. Have them explain one match.

Lesson moves

Give pairs four faction placards and two signs labeled 'Keep the king' and 'Remove the king'; have them place and explain each placard.
Ask students to write two sentences explaining why a royalist would reject a constitutional monarchist's plan to limit the king.
Play Who Am I: read a demand about the king, a republic, or bread prices; teams name the faction and explain their choice.
Show a grocery receipt and a mock petition to limit a mayor's powers; ask which faction would focus on each concern.

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