LEARNING TARGETS:  by the end of class you should be able to

• Explain the big ideas/concepts of the Age of Reason in your own words
• Explain how the Autobiography of Ben Franklin fits with the ideas of the Enlightenment.

CLASS ACTIVITIES

• Brief intro lecture on THE ENGLIGHTMENT/AGE OF REASON
• Read from Ben Franklin’s Autobiography (131-135)
• Added a quick entry to the writers’ notebook
  • What elements in Franklin’s writing give us clues that it was written in the era of the The American Revolution?
  • If you were going to write your own autobiography, what key events/scenes from your sophomore year would you include? Why?