You will be creating a "Most Enlightened Thinker" wiki page to present on Monday, November 10, 2008! We will be witnessing presentations from 6 of the most "enlightened thinkers." It will be up to your group to present your ideas and prove once and for all that you are the "most enlightened thinker" of all rimes! Good luck!

1. Choose your group - 5 members per group. Choose people you can work well with because you want to win the award!

2. Each group will be assigned one of the following thinkers:

Thomas Hobbes            Voltaire

John Locke                   Rousseau

Montesquieu                 Mary Wollstonecraft

3.  In your presentation you will need to include each item listed with your person later in these instructions. It is imperative that you include everything in order for your audience to understand your thinker. Your audience has very little knowledge of your thinker and you need to convince them, and me, that your thinker was the "most enlightened!"

4.  Each group must use at least 3 short excerpts from the written work of your thinker. This can be done in a number of ways; thinker reading to the people, video clips, still images, visuals with excerpts on them, etc.

5.  Each group must use as many vocabulary words as possible throughout your presentation. The vocabulary is attached with additional words you may want to use.

Introduction: lead in for the thinker

                   expose some main ideas

                   Why is he/she the best?

Conclusion: ideas wrap up of main ideas

                  Explain reasons why he/she is the "most enlightened thinker"

Thomas Hobbes

What was Hobbes’ major work that contained his views and contributions to the Enlightenment? '

What were Hobbes' views about the people?

Why did he think that laws were a necessary part of society?

Views on people and their relationship with the government?

John Locke

What was Locke’s major work?

What arguments did he make in this work?

How did Locke view people?

What rights did he believe people should have?

What was his view on absolute monarchy and other forms of government?

Baron de Montesquieu

What were Montesquieu’s major works?

What did he say about government in his major work?

What did he see as the purpose  of branches of government?

Why did he see this as the  best form of government?

Rousseau

What were Rousseau’s major works?

What views were expressed in his work?

How did he view the people?

What did he say about a community’s priorities?

Mary Wollstonecraft                                                                                                                          Vocabulary:

What were Wollstonecraft’s major works?                                                                                              Natural law

What views did she express in  her work?                                                                                              social contract

What were her major ideas?                                                                                                                 Philosophe/philosopher

                                                                                                                                                         censorship

Voltaire                                                                                                                                             salon                                                                                 

What were Voltaire’s major works?                                                                                                       enlightened despots

                                                                                                                                                          Popular sovereignty

What views did he express in his work?                                                                                                Natural rights                                                     

What were his major ideas?                                                                                                                Checks and balances

                                                                                                                                                        Federal System