Heroes of the Enlightenment Viewing Guide (2 Episode Series)

**Add another interesting element to your Age of Enlightenment Unit with this 2-part “Heroes of the Enlightenment” documentary Viewing Guide!
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This series can be used as an introduction or review for your Age of Enlightenment unit and the viewing guide is designed to help insure that students are paying attention and thinking about the information presented in the documentary.

The viewing guides include questions that students can answer based on the information in the video, supplemental activities that may require additional research, and a vocabulary section for students to complete. There is also a section for a bellringer as well as an exit ticket. Two separate viewing guides are included–one for each episode of the series.

How the Lesson Works:
★ As students watch the documentary, they can answer the short answer, true/false, and multiple choice questions from the video.
★ After completing the video, students can complete the supplemental activities on the worksheet along with the vocabulary section.
★ An exit ticket question is provided to end the lesson.

Accessing the Videos:
★ Both Episode 1: Power of Knowledge and Episode 2: Changing Society can be viewed for free on Vimeo.

Documentary Synopsis:
Heroes of the Enlightenment explores the fact that from Google, and Facebook and Wikipedia to the systems of democracy, finance, manufacture and the law - many aspects of modern life owe their existence to a single defining period: the Age of Enlightenment of the 18th century. In the space of barely 100 years, Western deference to divine and royal authority gave way to a belief that humans had the power to understand their own nature and the universe around them. Holy writ gave way to empirical investigation, the power of miracles to that of logic and reason. In In this series we can see it was a revolution in ideas, information and technology. Filmed in locations across Britain, France, Germany, Portugal and America, this illuminating series brings to life some of the key characters of the era - Newton, Erasmus, Darwin, Voltaire, Diderot, Condorcet, Frederick the Great and Thomas Jefferson - and the ideas that shaped the world we live in today.