Today we are beginning the Count of Monte Cristo! We’re starting with a lot of historical background so that we can understand why the characters behave as they do.

Here is a basic background guide (CMC Schema Study Guide).

Here is tonight’s homework (The French Revolution and Art Notes).

You will need to watch Crash Course: The French Revolution to be able to answer the questions:

You will also need to do an Internet search to look at the images (search for them using the title). (I’m not able to upload them to the website right now for some reason).

The first CMC reading guide will be due on Thursday (CMC Reading Guide 1).