Enlightenment Exit Slips

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Enlightenment

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Exit Slips for a 9th grade world civilization unit on the age of enlightenment

This learning resource focuses on the key principles of the Enlightenment, exploring its core ideas such as Reason, Liberty, and Progress, and their challenge to traditional authority like monarchy and the church. It encourages students to connect these principles to modern democratic values, analyze quotes from Enlightenment thinkers like John Locke, and reflect on the historical impact of Enlightenment thought on political revolutions. The document also discusses the relationship between the Scientific Revolution and Enlightenment thinking, promoting critical thinking through comparisons of faith and science, and inviting deeper reflections on evidence-based reasoning in government and human rights. Students are tasked with evaluating the implementation and critiques of Enlightenment ideas in historical and modern contexts.