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.

REMINDER:  Quiz 2 tomorrow, topics covered include:

• Origin Myths (Monday class activity)
• Puritans/Puritan Lit
  • See Four Readings from Tuesday/Wednesday
• The Enlightenment/Age of Reason
  • Ben Franklin’s Autobiography
• Terms from presentation/handout
  • sermon
  • Points of View (1st Person, 2nd Person, 3rd Person–limited, omniscient, objective)
  • Types of argument (Ethos, Pathos, Logos)

REMINDER 2: Reflection 2 due for 1st, 2nd Hour tomorrow, due Monday for 5th/6th Hour.

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?  (note: as an alternative to the written reflection question I provided you on this week’s reflection, you could write one scene from your sophomore year in the style of Ben Franklin’s auto-biography.  Remember–paragraphing, capitalization, spelling and apostrophes count).