AS Grade 11 2015
Week 1 :
French Revolution:
Introduction
12/01
Teachers back at school
13/01
14/01
15/01
16/01
Teachers back at
school
French Revolution:
what is
historiography?
Who are the main
historians?
Style of teaching:
academic discussion
combined with
content
Hand out: academic
essays
Causes of the
revolution: France
1776-1789
Political, Social,
Economic,
intellectual
Style of teaching:
academic
discussion
combined with
content
21/01
22/01
23/01
Timeline of the
turning points of
the revolution: why
were there shifts
between
governments?
Overview: aims of
the revolution
Style of teaching:
academic
discussion
combined with
content
Essay for
homework: To
what extent can
political problems
be blamed for the
French Revolution?
24/01
Economy under
National Assembly
Academic
discussion
Economy under
Legislative Assembly
Content-based and
discussion
Economy under
Committee of
Public Safety
Economy under
Directory
Pre-reading and
discussion in class
Reading for week
http://www.port.ac.uk/sp
ecial/france1815to2003/c
hapter1/interviews/fileto
download,18259,en.pdf
Week 2:
French Revolution:
Economics 1789-1795
Preparatory work:
http://www.indiana.edu/
~b356/exams+assignmen
ts/extra%20credit%20assi
gnment.pdf
19/01
Economy under Louis XVI until 1789
Style of teaching:
Largely content-based with follow-on
activities and discussion
What caused the
variations in the
economic state of
France?
Content-led lesson
Essay for
homework: To
what extent can
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political problems
be blamed for the
French Revolution
Week 3:
French Revolution: Social
instability
Preparatory work:
https://chnm.gmu.edu/re
volution/chap1a.html
26/01
27/01
28/01
Social issues: Estates system, link to
economic strife, rise of radicalism and the
sans-culottes
Content-based and discussion
Social effect on
political stability
between 17891795
Content-based and
discussion
Social effect on
political stability
between 1789-1795
Content-based and
discussion
2/02
3/02
04/02
Wars against First
Coalition
Brunswick
Manifesto
Pillnitz Declaration
Internal revolts
Week 4
Effect of War on France’s government
Reasons for War 1792 onwards
Timeline of the wars: successes and
failures
29/01
Rise in militancy:
sans-culottes,
revolts in the
Vendee
Content-based
and discussion
05/02
War under the
National
Convention and
the CPS
30/01
How far did the
revolution live up
to the expectations
of the working
classes?
Pupil-led discussion
Essay for
homework: To
what extent can
we consider social
instability as the
common
denominator
throughout the
FR?
06/02
?
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Arguments for and against war
Week 5:
French Revolution:
Political instability
Preparatory work
http://cchs.ccusd.org/app
s/download/vxE9LsUWfu
ZPdVoOS5X6F3aeZ5mPf4
ZIIuUpW9tQB8uwJJzC.pdf
/political_spectrum.pdf
02/02
03/02
National Assembly: Declaration of Rights
of Man, Constitution of 1791, economic
reforms, success?
End of constitutional monarchy
Legislative
Assembly : Internal
political ideas
What is a constitution? Reflect on what
we have learnt and what we will learn
this week – how far do you think the
constitutional has been upheld?
Why/why not?
Class debate/discussion
Preparatory work:
Read up on the
Girondins,
Jacobins,
Royalists/emigres
Content and
discussion
04/02
05/02
National Convention
Committee of
Constitution of
Public Safety: shift
1793, weakness in
in the tone of the
the National
revolution
Convention
What were the
Comparative
causes of the
analysis, causes and
terror? Why do
consequences,
you think this
continuity and
violence
changes
emerged?
Group discussion
Group discussion
06/02
Robespierre and
the Terror
Reflect on how the
French Revolution
has developed
from 1789-1795?
How far have the
ideals of FR have
been reached?
Discussion
How far do you
agree with the
Marxist view that
the French
revolution was a
‘bourgeois’
revolution?
Essay due 13/02
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Week 6
The Directory
Preparatory work:
Watch Lynn Hunt’s
Berkeley lecture online
Research Napoleon
09/02
10/02
Test
Assessment
The Directory
Content and
discussion
23/02
24/02
Napoleon as a statesman and his
foreign policy
Conclusion to
topic
Week 7:
Conclusion to topic
Preparatory work: Watch
Lynn Hunt’s Berkeley
lecture online
Group discussion
Content and discussion
11/02
12/02
13/02
Napoleon’s rise to
power and the end
of the Directory
Discussion: can we
blame the Directory
for the failure of the
revolution?
Napoleon’s rise to
power
Content and
discussion
Napoleonic Code
25/02
26/02
27/02
Discussion: is the In-class essay on
French Revolution
Napoleon
Assessment
relevant in today’s
world?
Content and
discussion
Mid-term
Group discussion
Week 8:
Industrial Revolution
Preparatory work:
Select five major
turning points in
History and write a
paragraph for each
justifying your decision
02/03
Major turning points in History:
revolution
Pupil-led discussion
03/03
Introduction to
the Industrial
Revolution;
social, economic,
cultural context
of late 18th – early
19th century
Content and
discussion
04/03
05/03
06/03
Causes of IR by
1800
Factors which
encouraged/
discouraged
industrialisation
1800-1850?
Factors which
encouraged/
discouraged
industrialisation
1800-1850?
Content and
discussion
Content and
discussion
Content and
discussion
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Week 9:
Industrial Revolution
Preparatory work:
Research history of
Marxism and
Capitalism
Week 10:
Industrial Revolution
Preparatory work:
Watch Lynn Hunt’s
lecture of IR for
revision
Week 11:
09/03
10/03
11/03
12/03
13/03
Economic systems: rise of Capitalism
and Marxism in context of IR
Social causes of IR
Political causes of
IR
IR in mainland
Europe
IR in mainland
Europe
Content and
discussion
Content and
discussion
Content and
discussion
Pupil-led discussion
Content and
discussion
16/03
17/03
18/03
19/03
20/03
Test
IR: Historical
debates
Extension activity
Extension
activity
Extension activity
Assessment
Group discussion
Informal
assessment
23/03
24/03
25/03
26/03
27/03
Skills
Skills
Camp
Camp
End of term
Informal
assessment
Informal
assessment