Literature in The Age of Enlightenment: Slavery and War

Literature in The Age of Enlightenment: Slavery and War. Learning Objectives for this video:

• Enlightenment and Slavery. Learn about History and Slavery and War through Literature. Explain how the Seven Years' War helped spark both the American Revolution and the French Revolution.
• Describe Benjamin Franklin's role in the American and French Revolutions.
• See how the scientific and industrial revolutions changed everyday life in Europe and America with ideals of freedom of religion, freedom of speech, free trade, fair taxation, and representative government throughout the world.
• Identify important documents in the development of democracy and the establishment of the United States of America.
• 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.