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__**Assignment**__ This is your background information for our study of **//The Scarlet Pimpernel//**. Be creative and add information which YOU think is interesting and important. You can add links, pictures, or text. Copy the URL number of your sources and post it with the information. Put headings to organize your information. Continue to work on this information over the weeks of our study. You will receive a quiz grade. Information you might include:
 * Author and Book information
 * French Revolution--Dates, Issues
 * Terminology
 * Geography
 * Guillotine
 * Fashion and Culture
 * Character descriptions of the main characters in the novel
 * SEE ANOTHER LIST BELOW--Added 9/26/11

__**Wiki Requirements**__ Your wiki page will be graded on **Wednesday, Oct.5.** You will receive a quiz grade. The grade will depend upon the following.

1. Content (50 pts.)
 * Useful background information
 * At least 10 categories of information (e.g., fashion, guillotine, geography)

2. Format (30 pts.)
 * Organized
 * Variety of ways to access information (images, links, summaries)

3. No visible grammar or mechanical mistakes (10 pts.)

4. URLs for sites included directly after the information (10 pts.)

__**More Information**__
 * French and British Fashion in the 1790s
 * Versailles
 * The Guillotine
 * The Bastille
 * The Declaration of Rights of Woman and Citizen
 * The Declaration of Rights of Man and Citizen
 * [|Eighteenth Century Link]