Unit III FRQs

A-peeps:

I'm not going to lie to you. Not a single FRQ has been graded as of right now (7:42 Sunday night). No excuses will be made, nor will I attempt to rationalize my lack of grading this weekend. They will be done by Wednesday afternoon.

I made a list of possible areas of analysis for each prompt, and will include them below. The lists are by no means exhaustive. If you included something in your essay that does not appear on the list, bear in mind I created this list without anything in front of me. In other words, you should not worry unless you neglected to address part of the prompt or did not back up your argument with any solid facts. We'll go over possibilities on Monday for part of the class period. We'll spend the rest of class looking at how different classes perceived the French Revolution.

One last thing before I paste the list. FRQs tend to pull up grades, especially when they are early in the quarter and there is nary a test grade (except for the unit MC grade) on the books. I said nary.

2. Sci Rev vs. Enlightenment:
Possible areas of analysis: roots of each movement, relationship between social class and participation in each movement, role of women, extent to which each movement affected European society, reaction to each movement (could depend on social class, country, etc…), focus of each movement (scientific discovery vs. social improvement)

4. Most important developments in astronomy during Sci Rev:
Possible areas of analysis: the universe as a machine, rejection of biblical/Greek/Roman astronomical traditions, three laws of motion, Universal Law of Gravitation, development and use of telescopes, application of rationalism to science, scientific method, attempted marriage of new astronomy and religion, heliocentric model, actual observation of the heavens, calculus (which helped to explain how planetary motion actually works...)

5. The most important philosophes (AND their contributions to Western society):
Possible areas of analysis: Voltaire (skepticism, religious tolerance), Diderot (new knowledge, mass circulation of said knowledge…), Montesquieu (separation of powers), Wollstonecraft (feminism), John Locke (rejection of inborn good/evil, inborn rights, obligation of government to protect inborn rights, etc…), and many more on channel four…