The Enlightenment called into question traditional beliefs and inspired widespread political, economic, and social change. This intellectual movement was used to challenge political authorities in Europe and colonial rule in the Americas. These ideals inspired political and social movements.
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Student will discuss the meaning of the unit's compelling question and possible answers to that question.
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Students will examine events from the Middle Ages to the mid-1700s from multiple perspectives.
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Through these resources, students will examine Enlightenment thinkers, including John Locke, Baron de Montesquieu, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, as well as key ideas from their written works and the effects of those works on issues of gender and abolition by examining the ideas of individuals, such as Mary Wollstonecraft, William Wilberforce, and enlightened despots, including Catherine the Great.
Students will describe what the Enlightenment was and the historical context in which it took place.
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Students will explain how Enlightenment ideas influenced the women's rights and abolition movements in England.
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Through these resources, students will examine evidence related to the preconditions of the French Revolution and the course of the revolution, noting the roles of Olympe de Gouges, Maximilien Robespierre, and Napoleon Bonaparte.
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Students will describe the social, economic, and political problems in pre-revolutionary France.
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Students will examine the reactions of the Third Estate to Louis XVI's actions in the early stages of the French Revolution.
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The following materials make use of resources and methodology of the New York State Social Studies Resource Toolkit. Please visit http://www.c3teachers.org/ to support this important effort, find the original sources, and explore other inquiries that align to the NYS Social Studies Framework.
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Students will evaluate whether the French Revolution was successful.
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Through these resources, students will examine the evidence related to the impacts of the French Revolution on resistance and revolutionary movements, noting the roles of Toussaint L’Ouverture and Simon Bolivar, and investigate the role of cultural identity and nationalism in the unification of Italy, Germany, and in the dissolution of the Ottoman and Austrian Empires.
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This lesson provides a brief overview of various documents representing major moments and events concerning the Haitian Revolution with a focus on building contextualization skills through the "Big C, little c" instructional routine. For students to have a grasp on the context around the Haitian Revolution they should have been introduced already to "Big C" concepts such as the transatlantic slave trade, colonization of the Caribbean and Americas, Enlightenment, and French Revolution.
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These resources provide students with an opportunity to synthesize what they learned in the unit before completing the End of Unit Assessment.
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