Monday, October 24, 2011
Website Spotlight: Benjamin Franklin
Website URL: http://www.benfranklin300.org/exhibition/_html/0_0/index.htm
Chapter One: Character Matters (1706-1723)
a. A Voracious Reader
b. Silence Dogood
Chapter Two: B. Franklin, Printer (1723-1748)
a. Way to Wealth
b. At Home in Philadelphia
Chapter Three: Civic Visions (1731-1751)
a. Improving the Self and Community
"As a lifelong learner, Franklin taught himself to read French, German, Italian, and Spanish, on top of the Latin he learned as a child."
b. Protecting the Citizens
Chapter Four: Useful Knowledge (1747-1785)
a. A Society of "Ingenious Men"
b. Shipboard Amusements [see "Swimming by Kite"]
c. Electrical Fire
Chapter Five: World Stage (1744-1787)
a. Forging Unification
[Albany Congress!!]
[Glass Armonica]
b. Declaring Independence
c. Forming Alliances
d. Mastering Diplomacy
e. Creating a Constitution
Chapter Six: Seeing Franklin (1787-Today)
His unfinished Autobiography
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