California Content Standards:
7.11.4 Explain how the main ideas of the Enlightenment can be traced back to such movements as the Renaissance, the Reformation, and the Scientific Revolution and to the Greeks, Romans, and Christianity.
Common Core Standard:
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RH.6-8.2 Determine the central ideas or information of a primary or secondary source; provide an accurate summary of the source distinct from prior knowledge or opinions.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RH.6-8.6 Identify aspects of a text that reveal an author’s point of view or purpose (e.g., loaded language, inclusion or avoidance of particular facts).
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RH.6-8.6 Identify aspects of a text that reveal an author’s point of view or purpose (e.g., loaded language, inclusion or avoidance of particular facts).
Essential Questions:
What does the word Enlightenment mean? How does it apply to this era in focus?
What comes to mind when you think of the Renaissance? How did the Renaissance pave the way for the Age of Enlightenment?
Who were some of the great explores during the Age of Exploration? What instruments made it possible for them to navigate?
What was the Reformation?
What ideas/inventions emerged from the Scientific Revolution? How does this apply to Enlightenment Era?
What notions/concepts resurfaced from the Greeks, Romans and Christianity?
What comes to mind when you think of the Renaissance? How did the Renaissance pave the way for the Age of Enlightenment?
Who were some of the great explores during the Age of Exploration? What instruments made it possible for them to navigate?
What was the Reformation?
What ideas/inventions emerged from the Scientific Revolution? How does this apply to Enlightenment Era?
What notions/concepts resurfaced from the Greeks, Romans and Christianity?
Big Ideas:
Renaissance
Age of Exploration
Reformation
Scientific Revolution
Greeks, Romans and Christianity
Age of Enlightenment
Age of Exploration
Reformation
Scientific Revolution
Greeks, Romans and Christianity
Age of Enlightenment
Unit Assessments:
Entry Level:
Class Discussion 3-2-1 Questions |
Formative:
Timeline Game Journal Entries Quizzes |
Summative:
Pathway to Enlightenment Project Essay Tests |