Week 4 Day 1

For today, we don't have LdL. We cover up some stuff today. So, there will be 2 LdLs for tomorrow, and it means there will be two teachers! Phew!

1. The Beginning of class...

Mr. Rick told us that no one teaches today because there is something more important that needs to be discussed. Mr. Rick checks who has done the first LdL...

And then we watch a video from Horrible Histories. It is about the French Revolution. (And it is a bit funny!) Here are some photos of the video and the class.

 These pictures are about Madame Tussaud, she made wax models of people during the French Revolution.

And this is the group watching the video... (well, sort of)

After the video, Mr. Rick begins his lecture. It is about "Changes in France". 

Everything needs a process so it can happen. Like the French Revolution, there is a process, and then it will happen. The process is long, and then it will be the revolution. After that, Mr. Rick assigns a group activity about the types of Cambridge Questions.

2. About the topic "Changes in France", we have some questions. These are the photos of students asking questions.

What we study is about the process on how the French Revolution happens. The first problem is about taxation. The tax was burdened to the third estate, and the second and first estate did not pay the tax. The third estate had the middle class, who were rich, but not in the nobility. They also wanted to not pay tax, like the nobility. The others, who don't have enough money have to pay feudal dues, which is 50% of their wages paid to their lords. It used to be that the nobility's feudal dues are paid in blood, which means they provide armies to protect the country. But now there is no war, so they sit there like lazy people and get all the money from the ones working for them. The third estate don't like this burden.

The second problem is, while the third estate is working hard to pay the taxes, the others sit there and enjoy the luxury of having a lot of money. The King controls everything. But, the third estate want everyone to be equal. Like when the French help the American Revolution, they remember that everyone is equal, no one higher or lower. So they think that the aristocracy is unfair.

3. Today there is no teaching. Teaching was replaced with a different activity. Mr. Rick told us it is an activity to improve how we answer questions on the Cambridge test.

We need a piece of paper for this activity. We need to draw a mind map about the causes of the French Revolution. There must be 6 causes. This is how it looks like...

After that, we need to turn them into descriptors. Descriptors are questions that are asked to describe something. This is the group "discussing"...

We are not done though, luckily we can do it for homework. And then... that is the end of class!

4. What we can improve better is that we need to be active in the group. We should be helping each other discuss. Need to communicate more! And also, we need to assign jobs for the team, like, when one is taking pictures, the other helps do the assignment. We will learn to improve day by day!