Topic: Enlightenment in Poland

Target group

6th‑grade students of elementary school

Core curriculum

6th‑grade students of elementary school.

XVI. Commonwealth in the Stanisławów era. Pupil:

5 ) recognizes the characteristic features of the Polish Enlightenment and is characterized by examples of the art of the Classicism period, including its own region.

General aim of education

Students learn the characteristic features of the Polish Enlightenment and examples of the art of the Classicism period, including their own region

Key competences

• communication in foreign languages;

• digital competence;

• learning to learn.

Criteria for success
The student will learn:

• to characterize the characteristic features of the Enlightenment in Poland;

• to exchange the leading creators of the Polish Enlightenment;

• to recognize the examples of the Classicism period art, including your own region.

Methods/techniques

• activating

  • discussion.

• expository

  • talk.

• exposing

  • film.

• programmed

  • with computer;

  • with e‑textbook.

• practical

  • exercices concerned.

Forms of work

• individual activity;

• activity in pairs;

• activity in groups;

• collective activity.

Teaching aids

• e‑textbook;

• notebook and crayons/felt‑tip pens;

• interactive whiteboard, tablets/computers.

Lesson plan overview

Before classes

1. The teacher proposes to listen to the lectures in the e‑textbook on the first page of the lesson.

Introduction

1. The teacher gives the students the subject, the purpose of the lesson and the criteria for success.

2. The teacher explains the students the ways in which the Enlightenment ideas reached the Polish lands. Students do Exercise 1.

Realization

1. The teacher, while continuing the issues of the flow of Enlightenment patterns, asks students to do Task 1. They listen to broadcasts on solutions in the field of social policy were proposed by, fashionale in the enlightenment philanthropy. How did it reach Poland?.

2. The teacher tells the students how King Stanisław August Poniatowski supported the development of the culture of enlightenment in Poland. He also presents the phenomenon of magnate patronage. Students do Exercise 2, assigning individual palace objects to magnate families.

3. Students search the Internet for information about the Załuski Library and the National Theater in Warsaw and its achievements in the stanisławowska era.

4. The last item of this part of the lesson will be the game of „supplementing” the collection of the Załuski Library. Students do Exercise 3. Using the deduction and information found in the Internet, the pairs connect the famous names of the Enlightenment in Poland with the famous printed works of the epoch. The teacher checks the effects of their work, correcting any mistakes, and provides feedback.

Summary

1. The teacher tells students about the fate of the Załuski Library.

2. Students do Exercise 4, indicating a non‑journal title.

3. The teacher assesses the students' work during the lesson, taking into account their input and commitment. For this purpose, he may prepare an evaluation questionnaire for self‑assessment and evaluation of the teacher's work and other students.

Homework

1. The teacher sets homework (it is not an obligatory part of the script), which is the selection of three works of the stanisławowski period (magazines, periodicals, architectural monuments), taking into account their own region, and preparing presentations on them.

The following terms and recordings will be used during this lesson

Terms

Texts and recordings

Enlightenment in Poland

The most significant Enlightenment impulses reached Poland from France. Another Enlightenment source of inspiration were the patterns derived from Germany. Both, August II and his son August III, were known for their love of art. Thanks to their investments, Dresden turned into a model baroque city, and Zwinger into an example of a palace building, admired by people in Europe. In Warsaw a number of investments were carried out - from the famous Saxon Axis to the Royal Castle reconstruction. In Grodno a new castle was built and the Sejm sessions were held there. However, Polish culture owns the most to the patronage of the last king - Stanisław August. In cooperation with the art advisory: Marcello Bacciarelli and Fryderyk Moszyński, Stanisław August implemented a number of initiatives in the field of urban planning, architecture, sculpture and painting. Wonderful palaces, gardens, residential towns reconstructions and art collecting became the responsibility of the largest magnate families.

The main magnate families began to build magnificent residences. The most famous are: Radziwiłł Palaces in Nieśwież and Nieborów, Branicki Palace in Bialystok, Lubomirski Palace in Łańcut, Czartoryski Palace in Puławy, Sieniawa and Korc, and Potocki Palace in Tulczyn. In 1765, Stanisław August Poniatowski inaugurated the performances of the first Polish permanent theatre troupe. Much later, the theatre team became known as the „National Theatre”. Wojciech Bogusławski is considered to be the father of this institution, financed in significant part by the king.