The Renaissance

The Renaissance was like spring after a long, dark winter . . .

The Renaissance (WH-1300) One workbook for the whole class, includes everything you need

  • Lectures
  • Timelines, charts, graphic organizers
  • Maps and mapping
  • Videos
  • Profiles of the artists and authors
  • Famous quotations
  • Documents likely to appear on state tests
  • Group analysis based on Bloom’s taxonomy
  • Games galore!
  • Homework on the Internet
  • All websites are up to date!
  • Writing: The four types of essays
  • The Mother of All Tests
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Many of the lessons are homework on the Internet

Introduction
Lesson #1 Graphic organizer How are you connected to the Renaissance?
Lesson #2 Timeline Timeline of the Renaissance

1. What was the Renaissance?
Lesson #1 Lecture What was the Renaissance?
Lesson #2 Video Introduction to the Renaissance
Lesson #3 Lecture The Causes
Lesson #4 Lecture The Results
Lesson #5 Group analysis The Renaissance
Lesson #6 Lecture Achievements of the Renaissance
Lesson #7 Group analysis The Renaissance
Lesson #8 Group analysis The Renaissance
Lesson #9 Profile Petrarch
Lesson #10 Lecture Renaissance humanism
Lesson #11 Graphic organizer The importance of the individual
Lesson #12 Lecture The Renaissance Man
Lesson #13 Lecture The Renaissance Woman
Lesson #14 Quotations “Man is the measure of all things.”
Lesson #15 Paintings You can SEE the importance of the individual
Lesson #16 Game The Middle Ages vs the Renaissance
Lesson #17 Game The Middle Ages vs the Renaissance

2. Birthplace of the Renaissance
Lesson #1 Lecture Florence: Birthplace of the Renaissance
Lesson #2 Lecture Why was Florence the birthplace of the Renaissance?
Lesson #3 Video The city of Florence, Italy
Lesson #4 Lecture Florence produced great artists
Lesson #5 Lecture Florence produced great writers
Lesson #6 Profile The new middle class
Lesson #7 Profile The Medici family
Lesson #8 Video The House of Medici
Lesson #9 Lecture Merchants financed the Renaissance
Lesson #10 Research Lorenzo the Magnificent
Lesson #11 Lecture Why was Venice so powerful?
Lesson #12 Lecture Venice: A powerful city
Lesson #13 Mapping The city of Venice
Lesson #14 Writing speeches The Italian cities of the Renaissance
Lesson #15 Research The Italian cities of the Renaissance
Lesson #16 Mapping Merchants spread the Renaissance
Lesson #17 Mapping Seeing patterns, drawing conclusions
Lesson #18 Videos The Northern Renaissance

3. Marco Polo
Lesson #1 Profile Marco Polo
Lesson #2 Mapping The travels of Marco Polo
Lesson #3 Research The travels of Marco Polo
Lesson #4 Research How Europeans reacted to Marco Polo’s trip
Lesson #5 Group analysis Marco Polo
Lesson #6 Group analysis Marco Polo
Lesson #7 Expressive essay “I am Marco Polo . . .”
Lesson #8 Narrative essay “I am Marco Polo . . .”
Lesson #9 Informative essay “I am Marco Polo . . .”
Lesson #10 Persuasive essay “I am Marco Polo . . .”
Lesson #11 Mapping Trade along the Silk Road
Lesson #12 Game Which inventions did Europe inherit from China?
Lesson #13 Research Chinese inventions
Lesson #14 Chart The impact of Chinese inventions on Europe
Lesson #15 Chart Five inventions

4. Gutenberg
Lesson #1 Profile Gutenberg
Lesson #2 Lecture Gutenberg
Lesson #3 Lecture Gutenberg: Man of the Millennium
Lesson #4 Group analysis Gutenberg
Lesson #5 Group analysis Gutenberg
Lesson #6 Speech How to write the essay
Lesson #7 Expressive essay “I am Gutenberg . . .”
Lesson #8 Narrative essay “I am Gutenberg . . .”
Lesson #9 Informative essay “I am Gutenberg . . .”
Lesson #10 Persuasive essay “I am Gutenberg . . .”

5. Renaissance authors
Lesson #1 Profile Dante
Lesson #2 Lecture Dante and The Divine Comedy
Lesson #3 Student project Dante’s Inferno
Lesson #4 Videos Dante and The Divine Comedy
Lesson #5 Profile Machiavelli
Lesson #6 Lecture Machiavelli’s The Prince
Lesson #7 Document “It’s better to be feared than loved”
Lesson #8 Video Machiavelli’s The Prince
Lesson #9 Profile Thomas More
Lesson #10 Profile Boccaccio
Lesson #11 Profile Chaucer
Lesson #12 Videos Chaucer
Lesson #13 Profile Shakespeare
Lesson #14 Videos Shakespeare
Lesson #15 Profile Rabelais
Lesson #16 Profile Moliere
Lesson #17 Profile John Milton
Lesson #18 Profile Cervantes
Lesson #19 Quotations Famous quotations of the Renaissance
Lesson #20 Writing speeches Renaissance authors
Lesson #21 Group analysis Rank the Renaissance authors
Lesson #22 Game Renaissance authors (fiction)
Lesson #23 Game Renaissance authors (nonfiction)
Lesson #24 Game Italian vs Northern Renaissance

6. Renaissance artists

The Italian Renaissance
Lesson #1 Profile Giotto
Lesson #2 Profile Donatello
Lesson #3 Profile Brunelleschi
Lesson #4 Profile Leonardo da Vinci
Lesson #5 Videos Leonardo da Vinci
Lesson #6 Profile Michelangelo
Lesson #7 Videos Michelangelo
Lesson #8 Profile Raphael
Lesson #9 Profile Botticelli
Lesson #10 Profile El Greco
Lesson #11 Lecture Characteristics of Renaissance art
Lesson #12 Videos Masters & Masterpieces
Lesson #13 Research Masterpieces of the Italian Renaissance

The Northern Renaissance
Lesson #14 Profile Jan Van Eyck
Lesson #15 Profile Durer
Lesson #16 Profile Hieronymous Bosch
Lesson #17 Profile Hans Holbein
Lesson #18 Profile Bruegel
Lesson #19 Profile Rembrandt
Lesson #20 Research Masterpieces of the Northern Renaissance

Architecture
Lesson #21 Lecture Renaissance architecture
Lesson #22 Graphic organizer St. Peter’s Church

Assessment
Lesson #23 Writing a speech Renaissance artists
Lesson #24 Group analysis Rank the Renaissance artists
Lesson #25 Game Renaissance artists (Italian)
Lesson #26 Game Renaissance artists (Northern)
Lesson #27 Game Italian vs Northern Renaissance

7. Renaissance scientists
Lesson #1 Videos Galileo
Lesson #2 Group analysis The Copernican Theory
Lesson #3 Game Renaissance scientists
Lesson #4 Quotations Famous quotations by Renaissance scientists
Lesson #5 Speeches Renaissance scientists
Lesson #6 Group analysis Renaissance scientists

Summary
Lesson #1 Create a mobile The Top Ten artists and authors of the Renaissance
Lesson #2 Group analysis The Top Ten reasons why the Renaissance was great
Lesson #3 Mapping Mental maps
Lesson #4 Board game The Renaissance
Lesson #5 Game Other ways to use the cards from the board game
Lesson #6 Class project A Renaissance Fair
Lesson #7 Game The ABCs of the Renaissance
Lesson #8 Game Can you speak Italian?
Lesson #9 Game Mars / Venus
Lesson #10 Game Honk if you hate history!
Lesson #11 Game Stump the teacher
Lesson #12 Game The Last Man Standing

The Test 332 questions.