1. Teacher Guide
This lesson is designed to teach kids to ask a critical thinking question that you can’t just put into a search box to solve. To do that, we encourage them with smaller questions that search can help them answer. Make sure that you read the notes for each slide: they not only give you teaching tips but also provide answers and hints so you can help the kids if they are having trouble.
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This lesson is designed to teach the Common Core State Standard: History/Social Studies.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RH Determine the central ideas or information of a primary or secondary source; provide an accurate summary of how key events or ideas develop over the course of the text.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RH Analyze in detail a series of events described in a text; determine whether earlier events caused later ones or simply preceded them.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RH Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including vocabulary describing political, social, or economic aspects of history/social science.

2. What might the “Axe historique” arches reveal about French history during the time they were built?
© Sebastian Helmke/500px
Having this up as kids come in is a great settle down activity. You can start class by asking them for thoughts about the picture or about ideas on how they could solve the question of the day.

3. What might the “Axe historique” arches reveal about French history during the time they were built?
Tilt-shift photography makes the mighty Arc de Triomphe de l'Étoile in Paris seem like a Monopoly piece. In reality, the 164-foot-tall war memorial honors those who served in the French Revolution and Napoleonic Wars.
Depending on time, you can either have students read this silently to themselves, have one of them read out loud, or read it out loud yourself.

4. What might the “Axe historique” arches reveal about French history during the time they were built?1
Web Search
What are the Axe historique arches? 2
Image Search
Find an image that conveys major events in the history of France. What major battles and/wars do you see? 3
What do each of the four arches portray? 4
Thinking
What do you think this suggests about the history of France
There are a couple of ways to use this slide, depending on how much technology you have in your classroom. You can have students find answers on their own, divide them into teams to have them do all the questions competitively, or have each team find the answer to a different question and then come back together. If you’re doing teams, it is often wise to assign them roles (one person typing, one person who is in charge of sharing back the answer, etc.)

5. What might the “Axe historique” arches reveal about French history during the time they were built?5
Minutes
You can adjust this based on how much time you want to give kids. If a group isn’t able to answer in 5 minutes, you can give them the opportunity to update at the end of class or extend time.

6. What might the “Axe historique” arches reveal about French history during the time they were built?1
Web Search
What are the Axe historique arches? 2
Image Search
Find an image that conveys major events in the history of France. What major battles and/wars do you see? 3
What do each of the four arches portray? 4
Thinking
What do you think this suggests about the history of France
You can ask the students verbally or let one of them come up and insert the answer or show how they got it. This way, you also have a record that you can keep as a class and share with parents, others.

7. What might the “Axe historique” arches reveal about French history during the time they were built?1
Web Search
What are the Axe historique arches?
(Possible query: “Axe historique, France”)
Source: Wikipedia (“Axe historique”)
The Axe historique arches are a row of monuments and roads in Paris that stretch from the center of the city to its West side. Axe historique includes 4 arches that are monuments honoring moments of diplomatic and military victory in France’s history.

8. What might the “Axe historique” arches reveal about French history during the time they were built?2
Image Search
Find an image that conveys major events in the history of France. What major battles and/wars do you see?
(Possible queries: “major events, France history” or “France history timeline”)
Image from Edudemic:
The major battles or wars included on this timeline are the French Revolution and the Franco-Prussian War.

9. What might the “Axe historique” arches reveal about French history during the time they were built?3
Web Search
What do each of the four arches portray?
(Possible queries: “Axe historique arches” or “Axe historique arches, history”)
The Axe historique arches reveal the early history of conquest and battle in Europe, and specifically its impact on France.
1. Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel: Depicts Napoleons diplomatic and military conquests an victories.
2. Place de la Concorde, obelisk: The reign of Egyptian pharaoh, Ramesses II; this obelisk is one of two given to France by the Egyptian government during the 19th century.
3. Arc de Triomphe de l’Etoile: Honors the the lives of those who fought in the Napoleonic wars and the French Revolution.
4. La Grande Arch de la Defense: Honors humanity and humanitarian ideals.

10. What might the “Axe historique” arches reveal about French history during the time they were built?4
Thinking
What do you think this suggests about the history of France
Three of the four arches memorializes military victories. The fourth honors humanity and humanitarian ideals, and it is also the last. I think this might suggest that like many countries before the 20th century, France’s history was marked by series of wars and conquests as nations were battling for territory. That the fourth arch focuses on humanitarian ideals might indicate a new moment in France’s history where the priority or dominant value is protecting humanity versus protecting and attaining land.

11. What might the “Axe historique” arches reveal about French history during the time they were built?
This slide is a chance to summarize the information from the previous slides to build your final answer to the question.