Name: __________________________________________________________________________Date: ________________________________ Period: ________________
Script Template
Topic: Causes of the French Revolution
Group Members: Mrs. Chomiak & Ms. Boyer
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Important Facts
Poor harvest in fall of 1988
Script
Outside of a bakery (La Boulangerie) December 1788
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Increasing bread prices
Peasant 1: Oh là là. It’s not possible! Le pain costs too much! It’s so cold outside!
I can’t stand it anymore!
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Extravagance of Marie-Antoinette
(distance from people)
Peasant 2: C’est vrai! It’s true! I haven’t been able to have enough bread for my
family! Le pain, it’s so expensive, it’s so cher! Usually we have 3 kilos a week and
this week I can barely afford one kilo!
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Under- representation of people (Les
états généraux)
Vocabulary
-l’hiver
-il fait froid
-le pain
-cher
Peasant 1: Have you seen this? (She shows a picture of the pamphlet). While we
stand here and freeze and go hungry, that Austrian queen, Marie-Antoinette is off
tramping around, having extravagant parties and making a fool out of France!
Peasant 2: Well at least they finally had children! I guess the key that the king
finally found the key to open the lock!
Another peasant enters the scene:
Resources
Peasant 3: It’s a disgrace! Have you heard about the meeting ? Not only is France
broke from paying for the war over in Amérique, but we have no voice! The king
just decided that the Third Estate will have only one vote.
Peasant 1: We will be outnumbered by the two other estates!
Peasant 2: We will be outnumbered by the clergy and the nobles!
Peasant 4: We will starve. The price of le pain has sky rocketed! No longer will I
have a baguettes!
Name: __________________________________________________________________________Date: ________________________________ Period: ________________
Script Template
Topic: Causes of the French Revolution
Important Facts
Group Members:
Script
Vocabulary
Resources
- The French
Revolution
- The Origins of The
French Revolution
- Mt. Holyoke- Causes
of the French
Revolution
- Video
Name: __________________________________________________________________________Date: ________________________________ Period: ________________
Script Template
Topic: Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI
Important Facts
Group Members:
Script
Vocabulary
Resources
- Marie Antoinette,
Queen of France
- More Marie
Antoinette!
Name: __________________________________________________________________________Date: ________________________________ Period: ________________
Script Template
Topic: Meeting of the Estates General/ National Assembly
Important Facts
Group Members:
Script
Vocabulary
Resources
- The Estates General
- The Estates General
Part II
- Tennis Court Oath
Name: __________________________________________________________________________Date: ________________________________ Period: ________________
Script Template
Topic: Storming of the Bastille
Important Facts
Group Members:
Script
Vocabulary
Resources
- Bastille Day
- Extraordinary
Episodes
- Video
Name: __________________________________________________________________________Date: ________________________________ Period: ________________
Script Template
Topic: Parisian Women’s March on Versailles
Important Facts
Group Members:
Script
Vocabulary
Resources
- The Women’s March
on Versailles
Name: __________________________________________________________________________Date: ________________________________ Period: ________________
Script Template
Topic: Reign of Terror
Important Facts
Group Members:
Script
Vocabulary
Resources
- Committee of Public
Safety
- Biography of
Robespierre