WALT: What best explains the start of the French Revolution?
WILFs: Can identify and secribe causes in detail (C)... Can compare and contrast causes making judgements about relative merits (B) Can assess caiuses and locate conclusions in appropriate historiographical tradition (A)

Lesson Development
1. Starter: Roaming review Qs
a) What were the long term causes of the French Revolution?
b) What wwere the short term causes of the French Revolution?
c) How have Marxists interpreted the causes of the French Revolution?
d) How have Revisionists interpreted the causes of the French Revolution?
e) What best explains the causes of the French Revolution?
 
2. Watch the film clip and add to your notes
3. Share your notes on your table
4. Individual research time
5. Plenary: Pair Share
a) How far was King Louis to blame for the French Revolution?
b) What could have been done to avoid the French Revolution?
c) Are you a Marxist or a revisionist? Explain

A selection of web links for the French Revolution are available from this page, divided into; General, Causes and Historiography.
Students can also search the web using the search engine below.