Title: Revolution Forum
Course: BC-Social Studies 9-1.0.0.0-XT

In this forum, you will discuss your views on whether or not the violence that occurred in either the French Revolution or the American Revolution was justified. You will state your opinion in a short paragraph, using evidence from the lesson material or that you have found through research to support your opinion.

Here are some prompts that will help to focus your thinking. You do not need to respond to all of these prompts, but answering one or more of these questions may focus your writing:

- Is violence ever justified as part of a revolution? If so, what justifies it? If not, why not?
- How bad do conditions need to be for a violent revolution to be justified?
- Are there better ways of bringing about change in a government than the use of violence?
- Were the actions of the American revolutionaries justified? Why or why not?
- Were the actions of the French revolutionaries justified? Why or why not?

Your paragraph should be between 200 and 250 words. You should use proper paragraph format, clearly stating your position in a topic sentence. You should then support your position using evidence and write a concluding sentence to wrap your paragraph up.

You do not need to do additional research, but if you do look for outside resources, only choose reliable and credible sources as evidence. Use a bibliography-making website like mybib.com or bibme.org to list your source or sources.

Once you have written and posted your own paragraph, respond to two classmates with a brief 50- to 100-word response. If you agree with a classmate’s original post, express the reason why and try to add an additional reason why their position is correct. If you disagree with the original post, respectfully and kindly explain why you disagree.

Forum Rubric

 | Insufficient Evidence | Emerging | Developing | Proficient | Extending
 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4
Ethical judgements about past events | There is too little content to adequately assess my proficiency. I may need to redo this assignment. | I show an initial ability to discuss the ethics of past events, providing limited evidence to support my opinions. | I show a satisfactory ability to discuss the ethics of past events, providing some evidence to support my opinions. | I show a complete ability to discuss the ethics of past events, providing meaningful evidence to support my opinions. | I show an outstanding ability to discuss the ethics of past events, providing clear, relevant evidence to support my opinions.