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Lesson:The Enlightenment

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The Overview slide summarizes the parts ofthe lesson and gives estimated times. In theTeacher Note, you’ll find Social Studies andLanguage Arts objectives.The Materials and Preparation slides tellyou what to gather and prep before class.When you’re ready to teach the lesson, startwith the Preview slide.The Activity slides walk students throughevery step of the interactive lesson.Students are instructed when to read eachsection in the Student Text and when tocomplete their print or online InteractiveStudent Notebooks.Use the Vocabulary slide to review keySocial Studies terms.Finally, students complete the Processingassignment in their notebooks. Use it toassess what students have learned.

Slide 2Watch this quick video to find out the highlightsof the lesson.

Slide 3ObjectivesIn the course of reading this lesson andparticipating in the classroom activity, studentswillSocial Studies

describe the roots of the Enlightenment.explain the key ideas of five Enlightenmentthinkers - Hobbes, Locke, Montesquieu,Voltaire, and Beccaria.explain the influence of Enlightenmentthought on later democratic thinking andinstitutions.Analyze excerpts from important historicaldocuments to identify the Enlightenmentthinkers whose ideas are expressed in each.

Language Artsclearly state a position and provide adetailed explanation of a rationale.analyze text to identify a cause-and-effectpattern.

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How have the ideas of the Enlightenmentinfluenced modern government?

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EssentialQuestion

How have the ideas of the Enlightenment influenced moderngovernment?

Preview Students analyze an image from the Enlightenment [10 min + 30min vocabulary]

Activity In a Response Group activity, students visit an Enlightenmentsalon and learn about five of the most influential Enlightmentthinkers. Then, students play a game called "Whose Idea WasThis, Anyway?" in which they analyze excerpts from importanthistorical documents to determine which thinker's ideas theyrepresent. [120 min]

Processing Students find a newspaper article or photograph that representsan idea of one of the Enlightenment thinkers they studied [20 min]

InvestigatingPrimarySources

Students create an argument to answer the question: How didthe Enlightenment influence the Declaration of Independence?[optional]

The EnlightenmentOVERVIEW

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Interactive Student Notebook(1 per student)

Handout A: Enlightenment Thinker Cards(1 per class, cut apart)

Handout B: Head of Enlightenment Thinker(2 copies of each head per class)

Materials to Print

None

Teacher Supplied Materials

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Before class:

1. Consider how you will teach the activity over thecourse of a couple days. The suggested time for thisResponse Group activity is 120 minutes.

2. Before beginning Phase 1 of the activity, print a copy ofHandout A: Enlightenment Thinker Cards and cut thecards apart. Also make two copies of the five pageHandout B: Head of Enlightenment Thinker. Tape oneset of heads across one wall of the classroom. Postthe other set on the opposite wall.

The EnlightenmentPREPARATION

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How have the ideas of the Enlightenmentinfluenced modern government?

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Have students come up to the image and pointout details they notice, or have students usethe tools to point out evidence that supportstheir conclusions.If you are using the Interactive StudentNotebook, you can access it three ways:

Online: Go to the “Student View,” andnavigate to the Notebook.Online: Go to the “Materials” tab, and printout the PDF notebook pages.Print: Use the print Interactive StudentNotebooks in your classroom.

In the Student Subscription, you can find thePreview assignment in the Introduction section.

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Preview

Go to the Preview assignment in your print or onlineInteractive Student Notebook.

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This image is of a French Enlightenment salon, aninformal gathering of thinkers, at the home of MadameGeoffrin.


Locate the Social Studies Vocabulary in your notebook.

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VOCABULARY

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Read the Introduction in the Student Text.


Read Section 1, The Roots of the Enlightenment, in theStudent Text, and complete the Reading Note for thatsection.

This section will introduce you to the roots of theEnlightenment.


Response Group: Phase 1 Enlightenment Salon

Get into groups of three.

The EnlightenmentACTIVITY Response Group: Phase 1 Enlightenment Salon

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Pairs will read and take notes on Sections 2 to6 one at a time (in a different order, dependingon the order they are given EnlightenmentThinker Cards).To save time in class, you might want to havestudents skim the section and identify thequotation in class, then complete the ReadingNotes for Sections 2 to 6 for homework.

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Follow these steps with your group as you learn aboutfive influential Enlightenment thinkers:


4. In your Reading Notes, record the letter shown on thetop left of the posted handout, above the Enlightenmentthinker’s head. Then record his quotation in the spaceprovided.


Let's check our work

Your group should quickly prepare anexplanation of who you believe eachthinker is and why.


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DEVELOPING CLAIMS

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Although Isaac Newton is often characterizedas a mathematician and scientist, he wasknown as a philosopher during his time. Hisviews that nature was understandable,predictable, and bound by natural laws were sosignificant that many of the great philosophersof the 18th century, including John Locke andVoltaire, sought to interpret his ideas. Heestablished a method that others used toaddress issues and questions.

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With your group, discuss the following questions. Then,discuss as a class.


Response Group: Phase 2 Whose Idea Was This,Anyway?

Before beginning the game, review these directions tolearn how to match excerpts from historical documents toEnlightenment thinkers’ ideas.

The EnlightenmentACTIVITY Response Group: Phase 2 Whose Idea Was This, Anyway?

Step 4: Send your Presenter to stand in front of theEnlightenment thinker you chose. If called on, thePresenter must explain why your group believes thisthinker’s idea is represented in the excerpt.


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Step 1: Select a Presenter.

Step 2: Read this excerpt aloud:

Step 3: Identify Enlightenmentthinker.

Step 4: Presenters move to wall.Explain choice!

Step 5: Check your answer. Acorrect answer earns your team 1point.

Repeat the game until you haveidentified all of the quotes.


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Read Section 7, The Impact of the Enlightenment onGovernment, in the Student Text, and complete theReading Note for that section.


Sample Answers

Read Section 8, Women of the Enlightenment, in theStudent Text, and complete the Reading Note for thatsection.


Sample Answers

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Slide 24In the Student Subscription, you can find theProcessing assignment in the Summarysection.

Drag each term to its correct definition.

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Word Bank

Enlightenment

constitutionalmonarchy

bill of rights

social contract

a list of basic human rights that a governmentmust protect

an agreement in which people give power to agovernment in exchange for its protections

a period from the late 1600s to the late 1700s inEurope, in which people changed their outlookon life by seeing reason as the key to humanprogress

a form of government in which the monarch’spower is limited by a basic set of laws

Vocabulary: 1 of 2

VOCABULARY

Check My Answers Reset

Drag each term to its correct definition.

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Word Bank

natural rights

separation ofpowers

despotism

religious tolerance

the division of powers among branches ofgovernment

rule by a single person with absolute power

the acceptance of different religious beliefs andcustoms

rights that belong to people “by nature,” simplybecause they are human beings

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VOCABULARY


Processing

Let's assess what you have learned.

Find a newspaper article or photograph that you thinkrepresents an idea of one of the Enlightenment thinkersyou learned studied.

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READING

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Slide 27You may want to have students write theirarguments as an essay or create an outlinedetailing their claim, evidence, andexplanations.

Investigating Primary Sources

What do you know about the Enlightenment impact ongovernment?

The EnlightenmentINVESTIGATING PRIMARY SOURCES

Go to the Investigating Primary Sources assignment inyour notebook.


WRITING

How did the Enlightenment influence theDeclaration of Independence?


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Timeline Challenge

Look at the Europe Enters the ModernAge timeline at the end of Unit 8 in theStudent Text.

Unit 8: Europe Enters the Modern AgeTIMELINE CHALLENGE

Complete the Timeline Challengequestions in your notebook.


Now let’s create a class timeline on thewall.


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Unit 8: Europe Enters the Modern Age

Drag each event to its appropriate location on the timeline.

TIMELINE CHALLENGE


Which three events did you suggest should be added tothe timeline?


CAUSATION AND ARGUMENTATION

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