Napolean Rubric

Essential Questions:

How did Napoleon Rise to power? (Childhood, education, military career)

How did Emperor Napoleon  come to  dominate Europe?

What were Napoleon’s most important Policies/ laws? 

What was Napoleon’s legacy , hero or tyrant? 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRVL9TcJOk8

Napoleons Rise and Fall

or

13R-The_Napoleonic_Era

or

https://www.pbs.org/empires/napoleon/n_site/index.html

https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/world-history/1600s-1800s/french-revolution-tutorial/v/french-revolution-part-2

https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/world-history/1600s-1800s/french-revolution-tutorial/v/french-revolution-part-3-reign-of-terror

https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/world-history/1600s-1800s/french-revolution-tutorial/v/french-revolution-part-4-the-rise-of-napoleon-bonaparte

Socratic Seminar Rubric

Read and analyze the Rubric. If you have questions be sure to ask me.

Third Read of Documents A-G

Take your time in class re reading, discussing , and defining unfamiliar words. Be sure that you answered all of the questions from each of the documents.

Use the Historical Thinking Chart for each document. Answer the questions from each category for each document ( Sourcing, Contextualization, Corroboration, and Close Reading)   .

Click this- Historical Thinking Chart

Sourcing

• Who wrote this?
• What is the author’s perspective?
• When was it written?
• Where was it written?
• Why was it written?
• Is it reliable? Why? Why not?

Contextualization

• When and where was the document
created?
• What was different then? What was
the same?
• How might the circumstances in
which the document was created
affect its content?

Corroboration 

• What do other documents say?
• Do the documents agree? If not,
why?
• What are other possible
documents?
• What documents are most reliable?

Close Reading

• What claims does the author make?
• What evidence does the author use?
• What language (words, phrases,
images, symbols) does the author
use to persuade the document’s
audience?
• How does the document’s language
indicate the author’s perspective?

Complete the graphic organizer which is based off of the documents ( this was last Friday’s homework)

Answer the questions ( Graphic Organizer):

Was the Reign of Terror Justified ?

Did the French Government have good reason to conduct a violent campaign against those  who they believed were threatening the goals of the French Revolution?

Gather evidence for both potential responses ( Yes and No) to this question but be prepared to formulate a strong response with evidence from the documents

Read the first three pages of the packet on the Reign of Terror. Annotate and answer the questions.

If you need clarification  write down the questions you have as you annotate.

Look up words you don’t know.

Your summative grade for this lesson will come from this handout .  ( Reign of Terror)

On Tuesday You will participate in a Socratic Seminar and will answer this question using evidence from the documents given to you .

The question you will seek to answer thoroughly is …

Essential Question: Was the Reign of Terror Justified?

Did the French government have good reason to conduct a violent campaign against those who they believed were threatening the goals of the Revolution?

Graphic organizer:

Essential Question_ Was the Reign of Terror Justified    

Long term and short  term causes along with details of the Four phases of the French Revolution were presented today.

Students demonstrated their understanding of the above along with their creative and presentation skills.

Parents please read the comments on  Parent Connect.