Russian revolution lesson plan pdf
Russian revolution assignment!
For most revolutions you can simply drum into students’ heads: the peasants were starving and had no rights, so they had a revolution to change the government.
Nationalism lesson planSeriously, if you think about it, that 1 sentence is the crux of most revolutions.
The Russian Revolution is a tad more complicated (it’s multiple revolutions and a civil war, the February Revolution is really the March Revolution and the October Revolution is ….
you get the idea). It would be easy to teach the topic for a whole semester. I have trouble finding a whole week in the overcrowded curriculum to teach this unit.
After years of trial and error I have honed my Russian Revolution unit down to 7 days: 5 days of instruction, 1 review and a test day.
This affords students enough content to synthesize the main events and ideas.
The 1917 russian revolution explained history skills
It also prepares them for a state test, if you teach in one of the states that mandates it (I do). So following is a day-by-day breakdown of the content and suggestions for each lesson. I also
