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Rousseau educational resource ideas and activities Assess your
class's reading comprehension with this short reading quiz. A
paragraph about Jean Jacques Rousseau and his contributions to
the Enlightenment provides different types of context clues,
which readers can use to answer the four following questions. A
short answer key is available as well. Jean Jacques Rousseau
(1712-1778), is hard to classify. As he states in the
Confessions, he “is without precedent.” Like other neoclassical
writers, he drew inspiration from classical sources (Augustine’s
Confessions); however, many of his themes are romantic.
Introduce viewers to this complex man with a PowerPoint that
uses excerpts from his Confessions to reveal his “inmost soul.”