By today, students should have read up through p.217 of Pride and Prejudice. With each reading, students should be learning at least 3 new vocabulary words (including them in their reading annotations).
Over the past couple days, we have been working on our note-taking skills while watching the French Revolution documentary. Today we spent some time studying together the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen (French Revolution Topic 3). We compared this document to the American founding documents, noting similarities to the Declaration of Independence and to the Constitution, particularly the Bill of Rights. We also discussed the subtle but significant differences. Whereas John Locke and the U.S. documents are based on the assumption that natural law is independent of society and government, the Declaration of the Rights of Man says that government officials must define boundaries, leaving the latter document open to moral relativity. The question of sovereignty is also open to interpretation. Whereas the U.S. Constitution starts with "We the people", the Declaration of the Rights of Man starts with "We the representatives." This seems to vest, perhaps unintentionally, undue power in government officials.
Homework:
- First Vision memorization due date is postponed until Monday.
- Continue working on the Family Present project (You should have 2 character paragraphs done by tomorrow.).
- Answer the following question in a well-developed paragraph. How does the Declaration of the Rights of Man relate to the violence of the French Revolution?
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