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During your time in the computer lab you will be using online resources to learn more about the ideas of the Enlightenment and how these new ideas influenced revolutions around the world.

Step 1 – Double click on the internet explorer icon to open up a new window. You should have one window with the class website and the other to do your research and browsing.

Step 2 – Copy and paste the link onto the new window’s browser: http://notebook.lausd.net/portal/page?_pageid=33,245998&_dad=ptl&_schema=PTL_EP

This link will take you to LAUSD’s Digital Library where you will do your research.

Step 3 Britannica Online – Click on the link “Britannica Online.” The online search engine is divided into three major sections, Encyclopedia Britannica, Compton’s Encyclopedia and Elementary Encyclopedia. When you type a term in the search engine you will get articles from these three sections.

Step 4 Research – In the Britannica Online you will search for the terms found below in the search engine. Read over both the Encyclopedia Britannica, Compton’s Encyclopedia and when available the Elementary Encyclopedia. By looking at all three resources you will get a better picture of the meaning and importance of each term. As you are searching for all 12 terms start to question whose ideas are more interesting or one’s you want to learn more about.

Step 5 – The 5 Ws of the Enlightenment. As you are searching for each term fill out the handout given. In the “Who” section you will write the search term exactly like it is below, the “What” section you will give a description of what the term is about, DO NOT SIMPLY COPY WHAT IS ONLINE!. In the “Where” section you will write the place it took place in and the “When” you find the time period it took place in.

In the “5 Ws of the Enlightenment” I want you to notice that there is only space for six terms. The list below is broken down into 6 numbers or 6 sections. The first two are terms that you need to include in the handout, Enlightenment and Enlightenment Women. However, for sections 3-6 you will pick one term for each of the grouping. For example, in section 6 you have a choice to write about Louverture from Saint Domingue/Haiti, Bolivar from South America, or Adams and Jefferson from America. You may have found the plight of the slave colony more interesting so you will fill out the 5 Ws for Toussaint Louverture. So remember, you should spend time looking at each term and choosing carefully because you will spend some more time on the terms that you chosen … a writing project.

Enlightenment Search List

(Copy and paste each term on the search bar):

1. Enlightenment

2. Enlightenment Women (make sure you find at least 1 woman from the Enlightenment.

3. Early Philosophes (Read over about both terms below and choose 1 to write about) John Locke or Thomas Hobbes

4. Philosophes (Read over about the 3 terms below and choose 1 to write about) Voltaire, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Montesquieu

5. Inspired Revolutions (Read over about both terms below and choose 1 to write about) American Revolution, French Revolution

6. Inspired Revolutionaries (Read over about the three terms below and choose 1 to write about) Toussaint Louverture, Simon Bolivar, John Adams and Thomas Jefferson