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Wednesday, September 19th

Wednesday, September 19th. The Age of Reason. Plan of Attack. Do Now Goals and Objectives Essential questions Pre assessment Presentation Closure. Do Now.

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Wednesday, September 19th

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  1. Wednesday, September 19th The Age of Reason

  2. Plan of Attack • Do Now • Goals and Objectives • Essential questions • Pre assessment • Presentation • Closure

  3. Do Now • "A great people has been moved to defend a great nation. Terrorist attacks can shake the foundations of our biggest buildings, but they cannot touch the foundation of America. These acts shatter steel, but they cannot dent the steel of American resolve. America was targeted for attack because we're the brightest beacon for freedom and opportunity in the world. And no one will keep that light from shining." -George W. Bush in his presidential address to the country on the evening of 9/11 • Based on what you know about primary and secondary sources, what would President Bush's remarks be considered? • What do you think President Bush meant when he said "we're the brightest beacon for freedom and opportunity in the world"?

  4. Goals and Objectives • Objective: 6.2.12.D.2.d- analyze the impact of new intellectual, philosophical, and scientific ideas on how humans viewed themselves and how they viewed their physical and spiritual worlds. • Goals: • -SWBAT understand the period before the Enlightenment to see how it shaped the Enlightenment. • -SWBAT comprehend how the Age of Reason came to be. • SWBAT compare and contrast philosophers John Locke and Thomas Hobbes?

  5. Essential Questions • What is reason? • What caused the Enlightenment? • What is the Age of Reason and what are the three goals of the time period?

  6. Vocabulary • Behavior- the way a human being or animal acts. • Predictable- tending to act in a certain orderly way. • Reason- thinking in a logical way

  7. What started the Enlightenment? • Geometric Theory • Scientific Revolution • Age of Exploration

  8. Copernicus • Heliocentric Theory

  9. Take a second You and two friends are at the top of the Empire State Building. You drop a one hundred pound bag of feathers and your friend drops a one hundred pound bag of rocks. Whose bag will hit first?

  10. Galileo • Proved that all things can travel at the same speed. • Also utilized the first telescope and wrote about his findings

  11. The Church • The Catholic Church in Europe was the most powerful governing body in Europe. • People used to look to the Church and its’ leaders for guidance and to provide answers to things that were unexplainable.

  12. Trouble with the Church • Many of the ideas and concepts that were thought of by Copernicus and Galileo went against the teachings of the Church • Galileo was actually tortured and forced to sign a document stating that his findings were not correct.

  13. The Scientific Method • Francis Bacon and Rene Descartes • Bacon: Need to do proper experiments to find out more about the world • Descartes developed analytical geometry which used logic and reason to prove things that were right and wrong.

  14. Sir Isaac Newton • Gravity • Clock Theory

  15. Open your books to page 454

  16. What did Newton’s Law Show? • Two things: • People can correctly predict the movement of any falling object on Earth. • People can predict the movement of the moon and planets

  17. Vocabulary • Reason: thinking in a logical way

  18. How did Newton’s Reasoning influence People? • People began to believe they can discover what will happen in the universe because it is predictable. • Scientists began to use careful reasoning. • Scientists also started to study human behaviors.

  19. Vocabulary • Predictable: tending to act in a certain orderly way. • Behavior: the way a human being or animal acts.

  20. What was an Enlightened Thinker? • People who believed in enlightened thinking.

  21. Vocabulary • Enlightened: having a belief in reasoning; moving away from ignorance • Ignorance: the state of not knowing much

  22. Age of Reason • Three goals: • Wanted to improve how people lived • Wanted to think clearly and logically, without emotions. • Wanted to use scientific reasoning to examine all parts of society

  23. Closure

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