Women in the French Revolution

This module is meant to accompany a unit on the French Revolution and assumes that students have a background knowledge of the basic timeline of events leading up to, during, and after the Revolution. They will analyze the significance of the role of women in the French Revolution and could claim that it might not have been as successful if the women were not so active in the cause. This module could be incorporated in one of two ways:

1. As a means of focusing on the role of women while studying the French Revolution as a whole. Note: lessons in this module do not need to be taught continuously, but can be integrated into the larger unit involving all required content standards on the French Revolution. For example, one lesson might cover the Tennis Court Oath or the Declaration of the Rights of Man and the next lesson might be a module lesson from the module and incorporate the women's role from the provided documents.
2. As a culminating assessment after teaching the necessary content standards on the French Revolution in order to include marginalized peoples in history.