"From Voltaire to 'Pride and Prejudice'", Language Skills in History #CrossCurricular #AlQareading

"Let us read and let us dance, two amusements that will never do any harm to the world".  With this Voltaire's quote and the title "From Voltaire to 'Pride and Prejudice'" we organised a lesson based on the thinking of the Enlightenment in the 18th century and the connections with the 19th century. 

We worked these links through Mary Wollstonecraft (Voltaire's close friend and mother of 'Frankenstein' writer, Mary Shelley) and the Georgian era, especially with George III. To cater for diversity, a high achiever in Literacy worked on the work of Mary Woollstonecraft.

In fact, Jane Austen did not know another British king. She lived for 41 years in the middle of the 49 years of reign of George III (1760-1820) with historical events like the independence of the Thirteen North American colonies, finally the United States or the rivalry against Napoleon. The consolidated parliamentary monarchy in Britain also rested on the prestige and importance of the gentry (countryside nobility) with several traditional values and customs. There are a lot of discussions about those in the novel, and we transfered it to our lesson and, of course to the present day.

JUSTO JAVIER PÉREZ