2014 Defining the Age of Enlightenment and Five Key Ideas Lesson Plan Accelerated Level

1. 2014 Defining the Age of Enlightenment and Five Key Ideas Lesson PlanAccelerated Level Date ALL your papers: Thursday, Sept 4, 2014 Friday, Sept 5, 2014 Monday, Sept 8, 2014 Tuesday, Sept 9, 2014 Wednesday, Sept 10, 2014---Group Project Thursday, Sept 11, 2014---Group Project Friday, Sept 12, 2014—Group Project

2. Day One: Thursday, Sept 4, 2014 • Quiet Question: Type One Prompt---Working with your partner, you are going to analyze the Written Primary Source Excerpt from Immanuel Kant’s “What is Enlightenment?” written in 1784. • This is a Type One which is to introduce and brainstorm. • You will be assessed on completion and not accuracy. It may be done in bullet format. • Reflection Questions: • What are the pre-conditions or factors necessary for a society to be called “Enlightened?” • How can a ruler create this “enlightened” atmosphere in his kingdom or nation?

3. Day One: Thursday, Sept 4, 2014 • Group Share: Turn to your quad group members and share the Reflection Question Answers. Then answer the following Type One Prompt as a group: • Based upon the excerpt, what do you think the Age of Enlightenment was about and why? • Class: As a class, we will share and discuss the predictions. The teacher will introduce the Age of Enlightenment. As the teacher reads aloud the short introduction, use Active Reading Strategies---highlight key words or phrases, make notes or questions in the margins, etc…

4. Day One: Thursday, Sept 4, 2014 • Class: We are going to watch the Age of Enlightenment Video I have downloaded from United Streaming. It will also be uploaded to the teacher page for students who are absent to watch. The running time for this is 15:22 minutes. • As we do, you are to complete the Web Chart on the Age of Enlightenment. • Identify the key ideas and related events in the Five Ws and How Organizer. • Class: As the teacher begins the Defining the Age of Enlightenment PowerPoint Presentation, you are to take notes in the provided graphic organizer. • We will be stopping at different points within the PowerPoint for Pair-Share Activities. • Please pay attention to how and what you will be taking notes on: • Definitions/Key Characteristics: This includes the formal definitions, key defining characteristics, and related causes and effects. • Examples: This includes examples of new ideas, key people, events related to the definitions or beliefs, and PRIMARY SOURCE QUOTES. • Symbols: These are symbols or pictures that help you remember the HISTORICAL DEFINITIONS. It is best to do this in color to help you remember. • *****It is very important to take good notes for all three parts as we will be using this information for a Group Project and for the Homework.*****

5. Day One: Thursday, Sept 4, 2014 • Homework: You are to take notes in the provided graphic organizer under the correct categories. • Your reading notes should be in EITHER ORANGE, RED, PINK, OR PUPRLE PEN. This is to distinguish the reading notes from the class notes. • You will be taking notes from TWO DIFFERENT SOURCES: • 2014 Age of Enlightenment Supplemental Reading • Glencoe Online Textbook • Access the 2014 Age of Enlightenment Supplemental Reading in Word format on the teacher page. Below the Graphic Organizer Topics have been identified to help with the note-taking. • Causes: pages 1-2 • Nature/Deism: pages 1-2 • Examples of Philosophes: pages 2-4 • Causes: pages 4-5 • Flowcharts Cover All • Glencoe Online Textbook:---Below the Graphic Organizer Topics have been identified to help with note-taking. • Causes of the Enlightenment: pages 538-545 • Defining the Enlightenment: page 546 ONE PARAGRAPH • “Europe and the Age of Enlightenment Map” ONLY: page 547 • Philosophes and Examples of Philosophes: pages 548-551

6. Day One: Thursday, Sept 4, 2014 • Chunking of Reading and Note-Taking Assignment: • Night One: Thursday, Sept 4, 2014 • Read and take notes from “2014 Age of Enlightenment Supplemental Readings” pages 1-5 and the three flowcharts. • Night Two: Friday, Sept 5, 2014 • Read and take notes pages 538-545 in the Glencoe Online Textbook. • Night Three: Monday, Sept 8, 2014 • Read and take notes from pages 548-551 in the Glencoe Online Textbook. • This will be checked for Class Participation Points the next class period.---Due Tuesday, Sept 9, 2014

7. Day Two: Friday, Sept 5, 2014 • Class: As the teacher continues the PowerPoint Presentation, you are to take notes in the provided graphic organizer. • Homework: Continue the chunked reading and note-taking.

8. Day Three: Monday, Sept 8, 2014 • Class: The teacher is going to continue PowerPoint Presentation, and you are to continue taking notes in the provided graphic organizer. • Homework: Finish the chunked reading and note-taking. It will be checked for class participation points the next class period.

9. Day Four: Tuesday, Sept 9, 2014 • Class: The teacher is going to check your reading notes for Class Participation Points. • Class: The teacher is going to finish the PowerPoint Presentation. You should finish taking your notes in the provided graphic organizer. • Pairs: To help review and summarize the Age of Enlightenment, you and your partner are going to complete the Sum It Up Activity. • Class: Pairs share their Sum It Up Activities. Answer any remaining questions. • Homework: Complete the Study Guide Questions for the first lesson .

10. Day Five: Wednesday, Sept 10, 2014 • Groups:Summative Assessment---As a way to check for understanding and review what the Age of Enlightenment was all about, in your assigned groups, you will be creating a Pictoword for ENLIGHTENMENT. • A Pictoword uses images related to the word to form the shapes of each letter. • As you shape-spell out the word, you are also defining the word and providing examples of what the word is all about. • You may have done this in middle school as one of your art projects. • Examples are posted around the room and will also show examples on the Smartboard. • There are also examples uploaded on the Teacher Page. • You will use your graphic organizer notes from the PowerPoint, the online textbook, and supplemental reading for this activity.

11. Day Five: Wednesday, Sept 10, 2014 • a) The student used pictures, symbols, and images to form the shape of each letter. • The student did not just outline the letter and stick pictures to it. • And the images spell out---ENLIGHTENMENT • The actual images/symbols naturally form the shape of the specific letters. • b)The images each defined a different aspect of the ENLIGHTENMENT-- • That means 13 different characteristics. • No concepts or images were repeated. • If an image or aspect is repeated, it will not be counted. • You may use computer images from teacher’s PowerPoints uploaded on the teacher page, the internet, or hand-draw them. • Must address: The list below includes 15 possible topics for the 13 letters of Enlightenment. • Causes: • Ancients and Middle Ages • Renaissance • Scientific Revolution • Economic Changes • Social Class Changes • Political Oppression and Intolerance • Exploration • Definition of the Enlightenment and Main Beliefs other than Five Key Ideas • The Five Key Ideas of the Enlightenment: • Reason • Nature and Deism • Liberty • Happiness • Progress, • What and Who were the Philosophes and Examples and Salons • Effects of the Enlightenment: Religious Toleration, Literacy, American History, etc… • Each image/letter is worth 5 points for a total of 65 points

12. Day Five: Wednesday, Sept 10, 2014 • c) There was a detailed TYPED key that explained the symbolism for each letter. • The key was well-developed and served as a good review of the notes from all sources---You Tube Clip, PowerPoint Lecture, and Reading Notes. • Do in Calibri Bold Size 12 Single-Spaced Font. • Each key description was a minimum of THREE well-developed sentences that defined, explained, and provided examples. • DO NOT WRITE VAGUE, BROAD, OR GENERAL STATEMENTS….Must have specific historical content like places, people, dates, events, statistics, etc… • A well-developed sentence should do ONE of the following: • Define and explain • Provide an example and make connections between the example and characteristics • Include a primary source quote that is analyzed • Identify and examine the causes and effects relationships • Each letter with key explanation is worth 5 points for a total of 65 points. • d) The assignment was done in color, neat, and reflected good effort. If not, it is 10% off. • Comments: Total: /130Points

13. Day Five: Wednesday, Sept 10, 2014 • Chunking of the Summative Assessment Pictoword: • Work Day One/Day Five: Wednesday, Sept 10, 2013 • Assigned groups. • Complete the Group Responsibility Sheet Contact Information. • Create a rough draft of the Pictoword as a group. • Assign the letters to specific group members---they are responsible for the drawing and writing parts for those letters. • If there are five people in the group, three people will be assigned 2 letters and two people will be assigned 3 letters. • Update the Group Responsibility Sheet and turn back in before end of period. • Homework: Draw and/or print out and color your assigned letters.

14. Day Six: Thursday, Sept 11, 2014 • Work Day Two/Day Six: Thursday, Sept 11, 2014 • Group members get out their art parts for their assigned letters. • Make any corrections. • Assemble on the oaktag poster board. • Update the Group Responsibility Sheet and turn back in before end of period. • Homework: Type up your written part of the project. • Email to all group members, so it will be easy to edit tomorrow and print up.

15. Day Seven: Friday, Sept 12, 2014 • Work Day Three/Day Seven: Friday, Sept 12, 2014 • Group members should pair up and edit each other’s written parts. • Make sure they are well-developed sentences with strong historical content. • Edit for spelling, capitalization, and grammar. • Print up the key in the order of the letters---how Enlightenment is spelled and attach at the bottom of the oaktag under the Pictoword. • Update the Group Responsibility Sheet and attach to poster. • Homework: Finish up the Study Guide Questions for this lesson.