The purpose of this multiple-day lesson is to help students see the relevance of past intellectual movements, such as the European Enlightenment, and how when people have access to a forum for discussion and free exchange of ideas, this can be a powerful force for political and social transformation. This lesson give students to have an experience like that of the salonnieres who participated in those lively discussions in 18th century Paris, but one which has more immediate relevance to their o