1. Y12 History What do you know about the French Revolution and Napoleon
5 facts
-Waterloo Abba

2. Connection What do you know about the French Rev and/or Napoleon
What do you know now ?

3. Key players Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte King Louis XVI
Queen Marie Antoinette

4. Watch video –make a note of key events and people
French Revolution
Watch video –make a note of key events and people

5. Course outline The Causes of the French Revolution 1774-1789
(Interpretation)
The Revolution from October 1789-to the Directory, 1795
Napoleon Bonaparte
Decline and fall of Napoleon

6. Assessment and exams 1 hour exam =15% of A level exam 2 questions
1 Essay worth 20 marks
1 comparison question worth 10 marks
1a)The financial crisis was the most important reason for the French Revolution
How far do you agree?
1b)Which of the following was the most important reason why Napoleon was defeated?
i)The Peninsular War
ii)The Russian campaign

7. Research the following areas:
Ancien Regime French Society before the Revolution (The Three Estates)
The Causes of the French Revolution - Political
- Financial
- Economic
- Social
- Ideological -Enlightenment
1789-The Meeting of the Estates General
The Storming of the Bastille
The Great Fear
The Declaration of the Rights of Man
1793-The Terror- Robespierre
1799- Napoleon takes over
Research the following areas:
Investigate these key events
What happened during these events?
What role did the key figures contribute to these events?

8. Holiday task
1)Create a time line of most important events of the French Revolution and the rule of Napoleaon
2)Write a biography of 2 of main participants in the French Revolution
Louis XVI
Marie Antoinette
Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot
Jacques Necker
Charles de Calonne
The Philosophes –Diderot, Montesquieu, Voltaire and Rousseau, John Locke
Robespierre
Danton
Marat
Napoleon

9. Consolidation What do you know now ?
What do you know about the French Rev and/or the A level course ?
What do you know now ?