CA.10.2. Content Standard: World History, Culture, and Geography
Students compare and contrast the Glorious Revolution of England, the American Revolution, and the French Revolution and their enduring effects worldwide on the political expectations for self-government and individual liberty.
10.2.4. Performance Standard:
Explain how the ideology of the French Revolution led France to develop from constitutional monarchy to democratic despotism to the Napoleonic empire.
10.2.5. Performance Standard:
Discuss how nationalism spread across Europe with Napoleon but was repressed for a generation under the Congress of Vienna and Concert of Europe until the Revolutions of 1848.
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Objective:
Given an historical background on the social and political atmosphere in France in the 1700's, students will be able to list and explain the connections, casual and otherwise, between particular historical events and larger social, economic, and political trends and developments in France, which led to the French Revolution
Rationale:
The effects of the Philosophes was particularly felt in France where most of them did their "Philosophizing," understanding the effects on the actual political and social situation, as well as understanding what the effect of the American Revolution had, will bring these two events in clear influence and connection.
Evidence:
Being able to identify and connect various events, philosophies, and changes within France will demonstrate a students ability to connect causes and outcomes of many of the revolutionary events in Europe.
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Today's Essential Question:
Does using the swift absolute punishment further the efforts of the revolution or make people want to not be involved?____________________________________________________________________________
Journal Topic: The US Supreme Court is considering hearing cases regarding the death penalty. They will look at if its constitutional ( cruel and unusual punishment ). In France, after the revolution began the use of a guillotine to exact retribution on enemies of the state was used quite frequently. What is your opinion about the death penalty in the USA? Should it be used? if so, what types of crimes would qualify for the death penalty? What about confessions? If a person confesses to a heinous crime, does that change anything?
If you selected that the death penalty should not be used (under any circumstance) what type of punishment would you advocate? If life in prison, under what circumstances (such as solitary confinement) What would deter the "life in prison" person from continuing to commit bad acts?
If you selected that the death penalty should not be used (under any circumstance) what type of punishment would you advocate? If life in prison, under what circumstances (such as solitary confinement) What would deter the "life in prison" person from continuing to commit bad acts?
Here is the latest info regarding the death penalty and the US Supreme Court.
At the end of last term, two justices -– Stephen Breyer and Ruth Bader Ginsburg –- announced in their dissenting opinion in Glossip v. Gross that they had concluded that the death penalty was most likely unconstitutional as a general matter. This is a very significant development -– since the court reinstated the death penalty in 1976 (between 1972 and 1976 the court imposed a de facto moratorium on the death penalty, finding that the arbitrariness of its imposition rendered it unconstitutional), very few justices have concluded that the death penalty is unconstitutional.
The Glossip dissent changed that. And, although justices Elena Kagan and Sonia Sotomayor did not join the Breyer/Ginsburg opinion, their separate opinion was deeply troubled by the court’s rejection of the petitioner’s method-of-execution claim. They wrote that the majority opinion “leaves petitioners exposed to what may well be the chemical equivalent of being burned at the stake.” And Justice Antonin Scalia said at an event last month that there were four votes on the court right now to hold the death penalty unconstitutional.
The court has a number of death penalty cases on its docket this term, and it may yet take more. None of these cases squarely raises the question of the constitutionality of the death penalty. But there may be an appetite for engaging with the question, for the first time in quite some time.
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Guillotine Vid ( here )
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Continue presentation of Frech Revolution -( pdf here ) (part 2)
Reign of Terror review vid - ( here ) (Robepierre)
End of Part 2 Video ( here )
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After the presentation and videos, please continue on Chapter 3 and finish Section 5 For Monday's class
