1. So here is Mr. Rick coming to the classroom.
Mr. Rick tells us to sing "Henry the Eighth", although that is our last semester's topic and the French Revolution has nothing to do with Henry VIII. Here is all the class singing.
And then, Mr. Rick continues to sing by himself and tapping on the desk while preparing the PowerPoint.
Mr. Rick opens the projector in the ceiling with the "Noodle". This styrofoam tube gets played by another student when Mr. Rick is preparing the PowerPoint. Mr. Rick says he looks like a samurai.
Unfortunately, like usual, this classroom's technology doesn't work! The PowerPoint in the computer won't open at all. Mr. Rick has to teach with the textbook for the meantime, while another student gets the "IT Person" to help fix the problem.
Okay. He was very quick.
After messing a bit with the computer, which included restarting the computer, the PowerPoint eventually was able to work. Hooray!
Mr. Rick continues the lecture with the topic "Did the French Support the Revolution? Part 2".
2. Again like last class, a revolution can happen when there is a misery. Then a person takes this advantage to fix the problem, but using the very wrong way. King Louis XVI has been executed, and the people to rule the country that time are the Jacobins (Sans-Culottes are also part of the Jacobins). Each region in France is ruled by one Jacobin leader. And these people are very bad guys in Power.
People began to hate the Jacobins. They were pressuring the people. Killed nearly anyone, who are against the revolution, support the revolution, being too revolutionary or not being revolutionary enough. (HAHAHA!) The Clergy were being asked to follow the government, not the Pope. That's why the Clergy were in hiding.
Girondins are people who are against the Revolution. They don't want this type of government, and want to find better ways to make the constitution more fair. There were other people as well. The Nobility were divided into three, Citizen Nobles who supported the Revolution (pretended, actually), Emigres who went out of the country to ask help from other countries and other nobles who had to lie low to stay alive. The Middle Classes too, and the Peasants. The peasants thought because the King was dead and the church was gone, they could buy the land and get some riches. But the government didn't sell it to them because the government thought they didn't have enough money. So the peasants became angry.
There was a person named Jean Paul Marat. He was a doctor and he set up a practice here. Then, the revolution came and people were asked to take sides. He chose the Jacobins side and also killed many people. He then stopped his practice and published a newspaper talking bad about the aristocracy. Of course the people went mad, so he had to run away. He stayed in the sewers. Because a long time ago the sewers were not kept hygiene, he developed a sickness called "Prurigo". He has to wrap his skin with a cloth dipped in vinegar and have Vinegar baths so that he will feel less pain.
Mr. Rick asked to Google that up, and the blog author has to kindly put the picture on the blog...
There is another side of the story. Charlotte Corday doesn't like the way the Revolution is becoming, and she decided to kill Marat. Marat was taking his regular Vinegar baths at home, that made him easy to find.
3. Then, it is time for the teachers to teach! Mr. Rick reads the teachers for today. Then it is teaching time!
We get the teacher for today. Here...
Apparently the PowerPoint won't open on his laptop, so he has to use Mr. Rick's PowerPoint. (See... Every technology doesn't work in this room!) Here is Mr. Rick grading the teachers...
And then after the teachers were done, the class ends. Next week, we will continue the LdLs.
4. What we can do better is to listen to the teacher well. And also, no one is perfect, we should find something to improve everyday... right???
awesome :)
ReplyDeleteThank you Mr. Rick!
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