Learning Exercise
Enlightenment Salon
Enlightenment Salon of the Eighteenth Century
Course: Advanced Placement European History
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- The History of Costume Design by Braun & Scheider
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- April 6, 2006
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- Barb Gehrts
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Exercise
Lesson Plan Enlightenment Salon
AP European History Grades 11-12
Barb Gehrts
Stage One: Desired Results
Established Goal: Students will be able to research and analyze the importance
of the Enlightenment in Eighteenth-Century Thought
Understandings: Students will understand the .
1. intellectual and social background of the Enlightenment
2. philosophes of the Enlightenment and their agenda for political and
intellectual reform
Essential Questions:
1. Do reform movements in different time periods have different outcomes?
2. How can social, political, and economic factors influence change?
Stage Two: Assessment Evidence
Performance Tasks:
1. Students will play the role of an Enlightenment personality at the salon.
Students will follow the guidelines provided to research and present their
personality. Each person will give an oral presentation depicting their role in
the Enlightenment.
2. Primary source documents must be used in this research. Include a
bibliography of a minimum of five sources.
3. Research costumes of the time period and use props and costumes for the
salon.
4. Students are encouraged to sign up and bring appropriate cuisine of the
eighteenth century for the Enlightenment Salon.
5. Students will complete a reflection/evaluation of the Enlightenment Salon.
Other Evidence:
1. Read Chapter 18 in textbook
2. Discussion/lecture
3. Jeopardy review game
4. Test on the Enlightenment
Enlightenment Salon
Include the following information in your Enlightenment Salon presentation:
1. Basic biographical information
2. Major contributions to the Enlightenment
3. Most important impacts/influences they had on the period
4. Special interests you want to add to the presentation
5. Primary source material from your philosophe/despot, etc.
6. Props, costumes, foods, etc.
7. Bibliography
Please try to interact with the other personalities at the salon. The following
is a list of who will be at the salon:
Frederick the Great
Rousseau
Voltaire
Catherine the Great
Maria Theresa
Condorcet
Mary Wollstonecraft
Montesquieu
Adam Smith
Mme. De Pompadour
Marie Therese Geoffrin
Diderot
Hume
Kant
Joseph II
DAlembert
Francois Quesnay
Burke
Baruch Spinoza
Moses Mendelsohn
Mozart
Beethoven
Hayden
Bach
Enlightenment Salon
Reflection/Evaluation Name __________________
1. What did you learn from the Enlightenment Salon?
2. What did you like the most about the Enlightenment Salon? What did you
dislike?
3. How successful do you think your depiction of your Enlightenment personality
was portrayed?
4. What would be some suggestions to improve the salon?
AP European History Grades 11-12
Barb Gehrts
Stage One: Desired Results
Established Goal: Students will be able to research and analyze the importance
of the Enlightenment in Eighteenth-Century Thought
Understandings: Students will understand the .
1. intellectual and social background of the Enlightenment
2. philosophes of the Enlightenment and their agenda for political and
intellectual reform
Essential Questions:
1. Do reform movements in different time periods have different outcomes?
2. How can social, political, and economic factors influence change?
Stage Two: Assessment Evidence
Performance Tasks:
1. Students will play the role of an Enlightenment personality at the salon.
Students will follow the guidelines provided to research and present their
personality. Each person will give an oral presentation depicting their role in
the Enlightenment.
2. Primary source documents must be used in this research. Include a
bibliography of a minimum of five sources.
3. Research costumes of the time period and use props and costumes for the
salon.
4. Students are encouraged to sign up and bring appropriate cuisine of the
eighteenth century for the Enlightenment Salon.
5. Students will complete a reflection/evaluation of the Enlightenment Salon.
Other Evidence:
1. Read Chapter 18 in textbook
2. Discussion/lecture
3. Jeopardy review game
4. Test on the Enlightenment
Enlightenment Salon
Include the following information in your Enlightenment Salon presentation:
1. Basic biographical information
2. Major contributions to the Enlightenment
3. Most important impacts/influences they had on the period
4. Special interests you want to add to the presentation
5. Primary source material from your philosophe/despot, etc.
6. Props, costumes, foods, etc.
7. Bibliography
Please try to interact with the other personalities at the salon. The following
is a list of who will be at the salon:
Frederick the Great
Rousseau
Voltaire
Catherine the Great
Maria Theresa
Condorcet
Mary Wollstonecraft
Montesquieu
Adam Smith
Mme. De Pompadour
Marie Therese Geoffrin
Diderot
Hume
Kant
Joseph II
DAlembert
Francois Quesnay
Burke
Baruch Spinoza
Moses Mendelsohn
Mozart
Beethoven
Hayden
Bach
Enlightenment Salon
Reflection/Evaluation Name __________________
1. What did you learn from the Enlightenment Salon?
2. What did you like the most about the Enlightenment Salon? What did you
dislike?
3. How successful do you think your depiction of your Enlightenment personality
was portrayed?
4. What would be some suggestions to improve the salon?