Transcript Renaissance & Reformation - Lesson # 1

The Renaissance
Introduction
Unit # 4 – Lesson 1
2/22 – Bell Ringer/Objective
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◦ Bell Ringer: Is it better to be feared or loved? Explain your
reasoning by justifying your response with an example.
◦ Objective: Analyze how wealth and status lead to the growth of
arts and literature
◦ Homework: Find a cultural reference from a song that you
currently listen to. Write down:
 Author, Title of Song, lyric, and what it is referencing
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◦ Attach Table of Contents
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◦ Attach Study Guide
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◦ Attach Notes: Italian Renaissance
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◦ Leave Blank, Title: M or T?
2/22 – Bell Ringer/Objective (1st)
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Page 79
◦ Bell Ringer: Is it better to be feared or loved? Explain your reasoning by
justifying your response with an example.
◦ Objective: Analyze how wealth and status lead to the growth of arts
and literature
◦ Homework: Find a cultural reference from a song that you currently
listen to. Write down:
 Author, Title of Song, lyric, and what it is referencing
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Page 80
◦ Attach Table of Contents
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Page 81
◦ Attach Study Guide
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Page 82
◦ Attach Notes: Italian Renaissance
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Page 83
◦ Leave Blank, Title: M or T?
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◦ Answer question: is it better to be feared or loved? (3 paragraphs)
Table of Contents
Name
 Unit # 4 – Renaissance & Reformation
 Assessment Date – Tuesday, March 5
 Textbook pages – ??? To ???
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What we remember from last unit…
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Feudalism declining
◦ Migration into cities/towns
◦ Rise of city-states
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Trade and commerce increasing
◦ Cultural diffusion throughout Europe
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Christianity evolving
◦ Church and Crown vying for power
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Population devastated
◦ Black Death, famine, and warfare
Renaissance
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Rebirth
◦ Revival of interest in arts and literature
◦ Emphasis on humanity
◦ People were CURIOUS!
Renaissance
Task: Create your
own C/E (like we
did during the
Unit # 3 Review)
Yes – you must
include the C/Es
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E 
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Increased trade with Asia
Growth of wealthy city-states
Rise of rich merchants
Revival of interest in arts and literature
Increased desire for scientific learning
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Creates wealthy city-states
Wealthy merchants arise
Merchants have money to spend
Artists are commissioned to create works of art
Invention of new technologies that help spread Renaissance ideas
Construction of universities within towns to educate more people
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Task: Make a
prediction – What
impact is
humanism going
to have on
religion?
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Humanities
◦ Emphasis on good education studying
“classics” – rhetoric, grammar, poetry,
history, Latin (Rome) and Greek
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Focused on individual
accomplishments
◦ Potential of human mind is limitless
Humanist Writers
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Made possible by
technology
• Printing press made
books inexpensively
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Founding fathers
• Boccaccio and
Petrarch
Humanist Writers
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Secular Writers
• Wrote about non-church topics
• Castiglione – The Courtier: behavioral guide for how
gentlemen/women should act
• Think – are there any behavioral guides for
men/women now?
Humanist Writers
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They were also writing about
injustices…government…problems in
society…
Who else likes to talk about problems in
society?
Ms. Wrede…What does Tupac have
to do with the Renaissance?!
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Funny you should ask
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Makaveli
It’s actually not Makaveli…it’s Machiavelli
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And he was a writer…
In the 16th century
And no, he’s not doing
a gang symbol
People have been doing that for years…
This was a priest
This lady was the
Duchess of Traetto
This guy worked for
the government
You don’t know as much as you
thought you did…do you?!
The Real Machiavelli
Real name: Niccolò
Machiavelli
 Wrote “The Prince”
in 1513
 Spoke about
injustices in
government
 “It is better to be
fear than it is to be
loved”
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What does this have to do with the
Renaissance?
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There is a lot going on at this time
◦ Revival of antiquities
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Art
Philosophy
Rhetoric
Science
And more and more and more…
People who were proficient in several of
these disciplines were called…
Renaissance Man
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Term given to a man during this period
who was considered an expert in many
different disciplines
◦ Ex: Leonardo DaVinci was a painter, sculpture,
scientist, inventor, engineer
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Can you think of anyone today who
excels in a variety of disciplines?
Shawn Carter…aka Jay-Z…aka HOV
Task: Make a list
of all of the
cultural references
you hear in the
song