Finishing Primary Source Presentations - August 22-25, 2008

Agenda:
1. Go over Textbook Scavenger Hunt
2. Finish Primary Source Presentations
HW: The Great Awakening and the Enlightenment (pg 10)

We really used this day mostly as a "catch-up" day, as our schedule was shortened a bit by the assemblies and Ms. Sternberg's visit to talk about school rules.

We finished student presentations on their artifacts/primary sources, and then followed up with tonight's homework, which is the first textbook reading assignment. In case you lost the assignment sheet, here are the instructions, below. Enjoy!

HOMEWORK INSTRUCTIONS:
The Great Awakening and The Enlightenment

DIRECTIONS: Read pages 39-40 (the section called “The Great Awakening”) and pages 44-48 (the sections on “The Enlightenment”) and answer the following questions on page 10 of your INB.

1. What was the Great Awakening?
2. Who were the two greatest leaders of the Great Awakening, and how did they spread their message?
3. In what ways did the spread of religious enthusiasm during the Great Awakening reinforce democratic ideas?
4. What was the Enlightenment?
5. What idea was at the center of Enlightenment thinking?
6. What rights did people have under an absolute monarch?
7. Where did the monarch get his power to rule?
8. How did John Locke challenge the idea of “divine right”?
9. How did the Enlightenment affect people’s ideas about government? How will the colonists eventually put Locke’s ideas into action?

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