Topic: Longing for the old order. Congress of Vienna

Author of the script: Monika Piotrowska‑Marchewa

Target group

7th‑grade students of elementary school

Core curriculum

XIX. Europe after the Congress of Vienna. Pupil:

1) discusses the decisions of the Congress of Vienna in relation to Europe, including to Polish territories.

The general aim of education

Students learn about the changes introduced by the Congress of Vienna in Europe, and the decisions made in case of Poland.

Key competences

• communication in the mother tongue;

• communication in foreign languages;

• learning to learn.

Criteria for success
The student will learn:

• to show on the map the provisions of the Congress of Vienna;

• to explain the meaning and outcomes of the Congress of Vienna;

• to characterize the principles on which the Vienna order was created.

Methods / techniques

• exposing methods: talk, traditional lecture, explanations and comments from the teacher;

• programmed methods: using e‑textbook; using multimedia;

• problematic methods: activating methods: discussion;

• practical methods: exercises concerned, working with text and audio recording.

Forms of work

• activity in pairs or in groups;

• individual activity.

Teaching aids

• e‑textbook;

• interactive whiteboard or traditional blackboard;

• tablets/computers;

• sheets of paper.

Before classes

The teacher asks the students to find information on the Viennese waltz and its relation to the subject of the forthcoming lesson.

Lesson plan overview (Process)

Introduction

1. The teacher explains to the students the lesson objective and the criteria for success.

2. The teacher discusses with the students, based on the homework, the benefits and losses of organising the Congress of Vienna.

Realization

1. The teacher plays, using one of the selected Internet resources, one of the Viennese waltzes. Students answer the question: why do we call the Congress of Vienna the dancing congress?

2. Then the teacher explains the significance of organising this congress of monarchs by Austria. The teacher describes the key politicians of that time and asks the students to do Exercise 1.Then, after checking the correctness, the teacher together with the students discusses briefly the principles of the congress (exposing method).

3. Students do Exercise 2. Based on the map, they list the main territorial decisions of the congress. The teacher sums up the students’ conclusions, broadens them with the information on the meaning of the “Hundred Days”. The teacher makes sure that the task has been correctly completed and gives feedback.

4. When doing exercises and tasks, the teacher uses tents or a set of cards in three colors: green, yellow and red. Students use the cards to indicate to the teacher whether they are having difficulty in fulfilling the task (green – I’m doing great, yellow – I have some doubts, red – I need help).

5. The teacher goes on to the attempt of congress evaluation. The students divided into two groups fulfil Task 1 and Task 3. They listen to the program. Group 1 lists on a large paper sheet the historic significance of the Congress of Vienna. Group 2 lists on another sheet of paper the results of the congress. Then the students, after assessing which sentences from the exercise are true and which are false, draw up together with the teacher the balance of profits and losses resulting from the congress. The teacher writes the conclusions on the board. The teacher makes sure that the task has been correctly completed and gives feedback.

Summary

1. The teacher gives the students evaluation questionnaires in which they evaluate their own work, the work of the teacher and their colleagues during the lesson.

2. The teacher gives homework for volunteer students (it is not an obligatory part of the script) - Task 2 and Task 3 from e‑textbook.

The following terms and recordings will be used during this lesson

Terms

Texts and recordings

Longing for the old order. Congress of Vienna

A congress was held in Vienna in the autumn of 1814. The decisive vote was given to: Russia, Austria, Britain and France. Three basic principles were developed: legitimacy, territorial compensation for Napoleon's winners and a balance of power. After the Congress of Vienna, the European continent experienced the longest peace period in its history thanks to the new order created on it. By decision of the Congress of Vienna, the international order was governed by two basic documents: Holy Alliance of Prussia, Austria and Russia and the anti‑French covenant of Britain, Prussia, Austria and Russia. The German Confederation was created, bringing together 34 German countries and four free cities. Two new kingdoms appeared on the Apennine Peninsula: Kingdom of the Two Sicilies and the Kingdom of Sardinia, i.e. Piedmont. The merger of Belgium and the Netherlands created the United Kingdom of the Netherlands. Russia resigned from its exclusive ownership of the lands of the former Duchy of Warsaw. Since then, it governed the truncated Kingdom of Poland, which was created in its place. The western part of the former Duchy of Warsaw, with Poznan and Torun, returned to Prussia, under the name of the Grand Duchy of Poznan. Austria was given back Wieliczka Salt Mine and Polish lands lost in 1809, however, Krakow together with the adjacent lands became a free city under the care of Russia, Austria and Prussia.