NAME:______MATRIX ON 17 th and 18 th CENTURY THINKERS AND PHILOSOPHERS Learning Target: Recognize how Enlightenment ideas influenced our Founding Fathers. Philosopher Three Main Ideas/Philosophies Philosopher Three Main Ideas/Philosophies John Locke Abigail Adams

Baron de Benjamin Montesquieu Banneker

Thomas Hobbes William Laud

Hiawatha Louis XIV

Mary Wollstonecraft PRESS CONFERENCE PLANNING SHEET Historical Figure: ______Press Conference Questions: Your reporter is going to have to come up with questions to ask the other In the space provided, write down important facts and background about philosophers/thinkers at the press conference. Use the “Summary” sheet to develop your historical figure. These can be listed as bullet notes. Remember, you questions for the other eight participants. are not going to have the “Biographical Briefing” the day of the press conference, so you need to become familiar with your historical figure. * Be sure to practice asking your actor/actress questions so that they are prepared.