Number of activities: 5 adapted activities, including color-coded multiple choice, rewriting the correct answer, interpretation of symbolic images, visual analysis of absolutism, and bilingual mediation (Portuguese + Libras).
Target audience:
Students with difficulties in reading, interpretation, and abstraction in History, Philosophy, and Human Sciences.
Recommended for Middle School (8th and 9th grades), High School, Youth and Adult Education (EJA), and Special Education Services (AEE).
Especially recommended for Deaf students who use Libras, as well as students with Intellectual Disabilities (mild to moderate), ASD, ADHD, Dyslexia, and Down Syndrome.
Format:
Color printable PDF with instructions in Libras, large and symbolic images (king on the throne, crown, brain with a light bulb, church, young person “thinking”), color-organized answer choices, guided writing, and answer key included.
Content:
Identification of the central element of the Enlightenment: Reason (illuminated brain as a visual symbol).
Interpretation of the expression “use reason” as thinking before acting.
Recognition of the Enlightenment as the Age of Enlightenment, in contrast to the “Age of Fear.”
Identification of what the movement criticized: the total power of the king.
Analysis of an illustration representing the king concentrating all power, promoting visual understanding of absolutism.
Highlights:
✅ Bilingual material (Portuguese + Libras), with Libras as the structural axis of the activity.
✅ Strong visual support that allows understanding even without fluent reading.
✅ Color-organized alternatives that facilitate decision-making.
✅ Simple, direct language organized into short blocks.
✅ Enables mediation using classifiers and body expressions, aligning historical content with the visual-gestural structure of Libras.
✅ Aligned with national curriculum competencies for Human Sciences in High School.
✅ Saves 6 hours and 48 minutes of teacher preparation time.
Brasil
Estados Unidos
