Literature in The Era of Romanticism: Journey Towards Democracy

Literature in The Era of Romanticism: Journey Towards Democracy. Learning Objectives for this video:

• Democracy in History. Learn about History and The Journey Towards Democracy through Literature. Explore the cause-and-effect relationship between the American and French revolutions, and between the French Revolution and struggles for independence in Haiti, Mexico, Central and South America, North Africa, and Greece.
• Identify key inventions of the early industrial revolution and describe their social effects.
• See how Romantic literature helped motivate political revolution and learn examples of Romantic elements in the literature of the young United States.
• Discover the territorial expansions of the United States, Great Britain, and France during the early nineteenth century.
• Learn how the Romantic spirit influenced writers in both slave and free states during the decades before the Civil War.
• Discover the many benefits of using online video for visual learning. Using educational video for teaching the K-12 curriculum provides online learning for children and students of all ages and abilities.
• Using subtitled video - or video with closed captions - enables children to choose between watching, listening to, or reading each presentation whichever best suites their individual learning style. A wonderful option particularly for dyslexia and special needs education.
• Having the student read the subtitles on a second or third viewing without sound, enables the improvement of Reading and Literacy skills AND helps retention of the information being learned.