Provide hands-on activities for practice and mastery. Check for understanding of concepts and skills by using relevant standard materials, i.e. worksheets, text problems, workbooks, teacher prepared exercises, etc.

Handouts based on chapter 17 of Winks,

Objective: Students will chart the worldview development through handouts and student generated charts.

Activity: 1. Handouts based on chapter 17 of Winks, A HISTORY OF CIVILIZATION
2. Read excerpts from the writing of the major philosophes in THE WESTERN TRADITION. Pages 213-238 deal with Montesquieu, Voltaire, Rousseau, Beccaria, Condorcet. The students will create charts that compare the contributions of each of these philosophers. Pages 249-260 have excerpts from the enlightened despots.
3. Read and fill out handout on chapter 10 of HISTORY THROUGH THE EYES OF FAITH. This deals with the changing worldviews from the Middle Ages through the Renaissance/Reformation to the Enlightenment.


Assessment: Student handouts-correct responses. Test on material