The Enlightenment: the 6 word memoir
(View Complete Item Description)Typically for when students have just finished a unit on the Enlightenment and Scientific Revolution, this activity twists the traditional autobiographical six-word memoir to other people's biographies. You will ask your students to create six-word memoirs for the leading thinkers of the Enlightenment. If people like Voltaire, Newton and Diderot only had six words, how would they describe their accomplishments? In other words, summarize the life of a philosophe.”for more info:http://www.edutopia.org/blog/clarity-brevity-6-word-memoirs-jonathan-olsen
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