Read through this and then move on to watch the Enlightenment Movie.
http://www.online-literature.com/periods/enlightenment.php
and don’t forget to watch the movie.
Watch this movie and take notes. Move on to the quiz.
https://www.learner.org/series/american-passages-a-literary-survey/spirit-of-nationalism/
Answer each of the following questions:
- Who was excluded from the ideals of the “self-made man” that structured Franklin’s beliefs?
- What is transcendentalism?
- List and describe 3 characteristics of the Enlightenment period.
- How did Franklin organize his own time? How did Franklin’s advocacy of schedules and efficiency influence the way Americans think about and structure industry and labor?
