Chapter 27 studies the intellectual and cultural history of modern Europe in the first half of the twentieth century. This assignment enables students to evaluate the upheaval in ideas and science, the religious revival, and the artistic and architectural innovations that signaled a marked departure from the assumptions that many Europeans had inherited from the Renaissance, the Scientific Revolution, and the Enlightenment from the fourteenth to the eighteenth centuries.
The objective is to research one individual’s ideas in a selection from their own writing or intellectual production. The excerpt from the primary source should be approximately one page in length. These can be found quite easily via the Internet. Then, students should introduce the text with a paragraph that identifies the individual’s main idea and how it challenged pre-existing notions. Third, the primary source should be followed by two or three comprehension questions for blog readers to consider. Finally, the whole exercise should be posted to our class blog below and appropriately cited using EasyBib to format references according to MLA style.
