The Enlightenment – A foldable
You will be creating a foldable for the major people and ideas that helped shape modern-day democracies
including the United States.
Using a blank sheet of paper, create your foldable. Watch this video to learn how.
On the back side of your foldable (the side without the flaps) – design the title “The Enlightenment” and
include your name and period number. Make it look nice!
Using the information in your textbook beginning on page 576, your top three panels will contain the names of
John Locke, Baron De Montesquieu, and Jean Jacques Rousseau just as you see below. Your other three tabs
will take you into Chapter 20 Section 3 beginning on page 580. These tabs will cover the three blue sections
for the Magna Carta, Parliament and the Bill of Rights:
Locke
Montesquieu
Rousseau
Magna Carta
Parliament
Bill of Rights
Read the section in the textbook for each person. Then, based on your reading, create a nice, colorful symbol
that represents that person or represents the important idea that he came up with.
Then on the inside of each flap, write a 2-3 sentence summary of the major contribution or idea.
(continued on next page)
John Locke believed that all people
had natural rights and that no one
could take those away. People
formed governments to help them
protect these rights. If a
government failed to do so, then
the people had the right to rebel
and form a new government that
would.
Magna Carta
Montesquieu
Rousseau
Parliament
Bill of Rights
Then on the inside of the foldable, you will write two summaries. See the sentence starters below.
The Enlightenment is…. (Page 576 – Political Thought)
The Enlightenment influences us today (discuss two ways)….
(Page 587 – Section on Enduring Ideas, Beliefs and Values)
Choose from:
1. Human Rights
2. Equality
3. Tolerance
4. Reason