Today we started class by adding a little bit of information to what students did as homework.  We discussed the life of Louis XIV and how his desire to be seen as an unquestionable absolute monarch led to extremely reckless spending and crippling debt in France. 

Next we did a simulation where students were divided up into peasants, nobles, clergy, and even the royal family.  Students worked to make food and then pay taxes and other fees, allowing us to see the massive inequities of Old Regime France.  At the end of the simulation, despite collecting a hug sum, the French government couldn't pay the bills, and the peasants had a food shortage.

The class ended by going over some vocabulary from the homework assignment (The French Revolution Begins).