The Age of Reason & The Enlightenment
READ: Yellow book p256-258
Speech on the Virginia Convention
What is an American?
Part One:
See Next Slide
Part Two:
Analyzing Contrast p289
What is an American?
Michel-Guillaume Jean de Crevecoeur
Category | Europe/European | America/American |
Government | | |
Work | | |
Quality of Life | | |
Ethnic Background | | |
Religion | | |
Active Reading
Analyzing Contrast
The Declaration of Independence
Find your phrase in the document and explain its meaning, context, and significance to the rest of the class. Put your thoughts on your attached MLA-page.
Close Reading Activity
Part One
Rhetorically Analyzing “The Declaration of Independence”
Word | Example from the Reading |
Cumulative/Loose Sentence and Periodic Sentence | |
Anaphora | |
Parallel Structure | |
Part Two: Argument in “The Declaration of Independence”
Questions for the primary source and other wonderful information and graphic organizers that I used can be found here for purchase, just click on the link in presentation mode to be taken to the TpT lesson by Students of History.
“Alexander Hamilton in the Uniform of the New York Artillery”
Alonzo Chappel
How did the
Age of Reason influence the American Revolution?
What are the three basic tenets of the Age of Reason? How do the works read, viewed and listened to today exemplify the Age of Reason?