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Enlightenment Quotes Activity Extension Possibility

Carrie Rogers

My students worked in small groups on the Unit 4 Origins of Revolution Enlightenment Quotes Activity and the last question posed asks them to consider specific connections they can make to current events.  As I walked around the room and asked groups to share the current connections to their quotes, there were some associations made but some groups struggled. It made me think about the Arab Spring but my students weren't familiar at all with the term or the connection to the ideas presented about autonomy, sovereignty, governance, etc.  This feels like a teachable moment to help them understand more contemporary examples.

I would like students to listen to the NPR podcast Throughline episode "A Symphony of Resistance" (May 20, 2021) for the purposes of 1) making a connection to contemporary examples of revolution, 2) listening to first-hand accounts of people explaining from their perspectives how the protests unfolded in Tunisia, Egypt and Syria and 3) awareness of the reasons people sought change within their governments as it relates to individual sovereignty and liberty.  

  • Has anyone in the WHP community used these events to make current connections?
  • If so, what other materials have you used to do so?
  • The hosts of the podcast acknowledge that this not an historic event yet as people are still living out the consequences of the uprising; is this too much for the moment?
  • Any suggestions or other thoughts on how to help make other relevant connections?
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  • I try to work in time for Current Events daily, it is often part of my entry screen where i have Daily Hashtags (i.e. #Ukraine #SCOTUS, etc.), some days the convos go great, other days they aren't interested or we have time constraints, but whenever possible I value their interest over time constraints.

    Anyways,  and I are having our OER College in the High School World students do an "Tree of Isms" at the moment. The trunk is Atlantic Revs + Industrialization and the students decide both the roots (like Enlightenment) and off-shoot branches such as Imperialism, Nationalism, Romanticism*, Liberalism, Conversvativism, and Feminism, from there the students expand (i.e. things like "White Man's Burden" as an offshoot of Imperialism). Anyways, kids were wanting to connect current events (ala "Nationalism" and what is happening in Ukraine or how originally Nationalism was at odds with 19th-century Conservativism but today there are "conservative" nationalist groups...I was impressed by their thought process and connections). Speaking of Arab Spring, one student brought that up and wanted to add a "Radicalism" branch for groups like Anarchists (he was going to try and connect "Radicalism" + "Nationalism" using the Arab Spring. 

    Podcasts like Throughline, The Daily from the NYT, and the wonderful daily read by Dr. Heather Cox Richardson entitled "Letters from an American" have been successful at capturing the organic interest of many students (who listen and read on their own time). 

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  • I try to work in time for Current Events daily, it is often part of my entry screen where i have Daily Hashtags (i.e. #Ukraine #SCOTUS, etc.), some days the convos go great, other days they aren't interested or we have time constraints, but whenever possible I value their interest over time constraints.

    Anyways,  and I are having our OER College in the High School World students do an "Tree of Isms" at the moment. The trunk is Atlantic Revs + Industrialization and the students decide both the roots (like Enlightenment) and off-shoot branches such as Imperialism, Nationalism, Romanticism*, Liberalism, Conversvativism, and Feminism, from there the students expand (i.e. things like "White Man's Burden" as an offshoot of Imperialism). Anyways, kids were wanting to connect current events (ala "Nationalism" and what is happening in Ukraine or how originally Nationalism was at odds with 19th-century Conservativism but today there are "conservative" nationalist groups...I was impressed by their thought process and connections). Speaking of Arab Spring, one student brought that up and wanted to add a "Radicalism" branch for groups like Anarchists (he was going to try and connect "Radicalism" + "Nationalism" using the Arab Spring. 

    Podcasts like Throughline, The Daily from the NYT, and the wonderful daily read by Dr. Heather Cox Richardson entitled "Letters from an American" have been successful at capturing the organic interest of many students (who listen and read on their own time). 

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