Access the SAS content at: Modern Europe (Levels 1 and 2) Unit 1: The Enlightenment www.pdesas.org Suggested Duration: about 10 days Standards, Big Ideas, Competencies and Instructional Suggested and Concepts Social Studies Vocabulary/Content Materials Activities Essential Questions Core Skills Big Idea: The Enlightenment Students should know RTM Core Social Studies The Enlightenment Textbook: Students should and Age of Reason witnessed that: Skills: • Applied reason to the Chapter 5 read and analyze a discovery of new and • Map skills human world, as well as to What is the better ways to govern • Enlightenment • Interpretation of the rest of the natural world What is the Enlightenment in society, create art, and thinkers believed that charts and graphs • Stimulated religious Enlightenment? order to stimulate trade. Its radical human progress was • Analysis and tolerance By Emmanuel understand the new ideas influenced both possible through the interpretation of • Fueled democratic Kant different the American and French application of political cartoons revolutions around the mentality Revolutions. scientific knowledge • Analysis and world Declaration of and reason to issues interpretation Independence Create a chart of law and based on synthesis Enlightenment thinkers and their comparing each Standards: government. of facts ideas The Crisis by philosopher’s • Enlightenment ideas • Notetaking and • Thomas Hobbes’ Leviathan: Thomas Paine (Hobbes, Locke, 8.1.12; 8.4.12 influenced the leaders organizational skills Humans coexist in a Rousseau, of the American • Reading primitive “state of nature” Montesquieu, Voltaire, Diderot, Essential Questions: Revolution, the comprehension and consent to government writing of the • Research skills for self‐protection Adam Smith) view of nature, 1. Who were some Declaration of • Written and oral • John Locke’s Two Treatises his ideas on Enlightenment thinkers Independence, and expression of facts of Government: People are government, and and what were their the French Revolution and concepts sovereign and consent to his impact on the ideas? (which is the topic of the government for US government 2. How did philosophers the next unit). Students will be able to: protection of natural rights th of the Enlightenment • The 16th‐18 • Explain the political, to life, liberty, and property Analyze the influence thinking on centuries brought religious, and social • Montesquieu’s The Spirit of Declaration of political issues? many changes in the ideas of the the Laws: The best form of Independence 3. How did the arts, literature, and Enlightenment and the government includes a for Enlightenment political philosophy. ways in which they separation of powers Enlightenment promote revolution in influenced the • Jean‐Jacques Rousseau’s ideas the American colonies? founders of the United The Social Contract: In France? States Government is a contract Translate The 4. Who were some • Describe the expansion between rulers and the Crisis into composers, artists, of the arts, philosophy, people. contemporary philosophers, and literature, and new • Voltaire: Religious English and writers of the period? technology toleration should triumph analyze the over religious fanaticism; impact of separation of church and Enlightenment state ideas on the • Denis Diderot: The work Encyclopedia • Adam Smith’s The Wealth of Nations • Laissez faire Influence of the Enlightenment • Political philosophies of the Enlightenment fueled revolution in the Americas and France. • Thomas Jefferson’s Declaration of Independence incorporated Enlightenment ideas. • The Constitution of the USA and Bill of Rights incorporated Enlightenment ideas. Representative composers, philosophers, and writers • Johann Sebastian Bach: Baroque composer • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Classical composer • Voltaire: philosopher • Miguel de Cervantes: Novelist New schools of art and forms • Painting depicted classical subjects, public events, natural scenes, and living people (portraits) • New forms of literature evolved, such as the novel (e.g., Don Quixote) Access the SAS content at: Modern Europe (Levels 1 and 2) Unit 2: The French Revolution and Napoleon www.pdesas.org Suggested Duration: about 10 days Standards, Big Ideas, Competencies and Instructional Suggested and Concepts Social Studies Vocabulary/Content Materials Activities Essential Questions Core Skills Big Idea: The ideas of the Students should know RTM Core Social Studies Causes of the French Revolution Text: Chapter 6 Create a political Enlightenment and American that: Skills: • Influence of Enlightenment cartoon from Revolution sparked the • Map skills ideas The French perspective of a French Revolution which • The ideas of the • Interpretation of • Influence of the American Revolution – member of the rd caused the French to Enlightenment and charts and graphs Revolution History Channel 3 estate overthrow their absolute French participation • Analysis and video monarchy in hopes of in the American interpretation of Events of the French Revolution Have students creating a democratic new Revolution influenced political cartoons • Storming of the Bastille Movie clip: Marie write an essay in government. Napoleon’s the French people to • Analysis and • Reign of Terror Antoinette which they appointment not only ended view their interpretation decide whether the revolution but changed Napoleon’s reign government in new based on synthesis Outcomes of the French Revolution the political boundaries of ways. They of facts • End of the absolute was a sign of the Europe forever. overthrew the • Notetaking and monarchy of Louis XVI revolution’s failure or absolute monarchy organizational skills • Rise of Napoleon triumph. and established a new • Reading Standards: government. comprehension Legacy of Napoleon Create a chart • The French • Research skills • Unsuccessful attempt to comparing 8.1.12; 8.4.12 Revolution left a • Written and oral unify Europe under French Europe before powerful legacy for expression of facts domination and after the world history: secular and concepts • Napoleonic Code Congress of society, nationalism, • Awakening of feelings of and democratic ideas. Vienna Essential Questions: Students will be able to: national pride and growth • Napoleon’s attempt • Describe the causes of nationalism to unify Europe under and events of the 5. How did the ideas of French domination French Revolution the Enlightenment Legacy of the Congress of Vienna was unsuccessful. • Assess the impact of cause the French • “Balance of power” • The Congress of Napoleon and the Revolution? doctrine Vienna attempted to Congress of Vienna, 6. What was the legacy of • Restoration of monarchies restore Europe as it including changes in Napoleon? • New political map of Europe had been before the political boundaries in 7. What was the • New political philosophies French Revolution Europe after 1815 significance of the (liberalism, conservatism) and Napoleonic Congress of Vienna? conquests. Access the SAS content at: Modern Europe (Levels 1 and 2) Unit 3: Industrial Revolution and Imperialism www.pdesas.org Suggested Duration: about 8 days Standards, Big Ideas, Competencies and Instructional Suggested and Concepts Social Studies Vocabulary/Content Materials Activities Essential Questions Core Skills Big Idea: Advancements in Students should know RTM Core Social Studies Industrial Revolution Text Chapters 7, Create a chart of technology produced the that: Skills: • Originated in England because 9, and 12. the inventors and of its natural resources and the Industrial Revolution, while • Map skills scientists of the IR, invention and improvement of advancements in science and • what their • The Industrial Interpretation of the steam engine Rules of a Factory medicine altered the lives of contribution was Revolution began in charts and graphs • Spread to Europe and the U.S. in Berlin and people living in the new England and spread to • Analysis and • Role of cotton textile, iron, and other accounts and how it changed industrial cities. Though the rest of Western interpretation of steel industries on factory life people’s lives. capitalism fueled the Europe and the political cartoons • Relationship to British Industrial Revolution and led United States. • Analysis and Enclosure Movement Kikuyu tribe fable Create a political European nations to conquer • With the Industrial interpretation • Rise of the factory system and on imperialism cartoon on African and Asian lands in Revolution came an based on synthesis demise of cottage industries imperialism from order to acquire resources, increased demand for of facts • Rising economic powers that either the wanted to control raw new economic systems like raw materials from • Notetaking and perspective of an socialism were being materials and markets African/Asian the Americas, Asia, organizational skills throughout the world considered. native or an and Africa. • Reading • Advancements in comprehension Technological advances imperialist. technology produced • Research skills • Spinning jenny: James Standards: the Industrial • Written and oral Hargreaves Labor Revolution, while expression of facts • Steam Engine: James Watt union/management 8.1.12; 8.4.12 advancements in and concepts • Process for making steel: simulation in which science and medicine Henry Bessemer students break up altered the lives of Students will be able to: into 2 sides and Essential Questions: Science and medical advancements people living in the negotiate a new • Cite scientific, • Development of smallpox