Monday- No School(Ice Day)
Tuesday- Discuss current world issues with gun control and gun laws.
Wednesday-
Renaissance and Reformation
1300-1600
- Started in Italy and spread through Europe
- Renaissance means "rebirth"
- Revival of art science, education that didn't take place during Middle Ages
- Wanted to bring back ancient Greek and Roman Culture
Italy was the Birthplace
- People quesioned the norms of the later middle ages
- Why didn't our leaders or the Church stop wars from happening or the plague form killing so many people?
- Why did the church tell people to endure suffering on Earth and await the rewards of heaven?
- Writers and artists expressing new ideas and syles that went against the status quo
- Italy's advantages
- Why did the Renaissance start in Italy?
- Thriving cities
- Florence, Milan, Rome
- Thriving cities
- Wealthy merchant class
- Idea that power should come form hard work and not inheritance
- The Medici family became the most powerful bank in Italy and Europe
- Italy had the heritage of ancient Greece and Rome
- Why did the Renaissance start in Italy?
- Renaissance Man
- Characteristics
- Charming, witty, and well educated in the classics
- Talented in dancing, singing, playing music, writing poetry
- Skilled horseback rider, wrestler, and swordsman
- Characteristics
- Renaissance Women
- Characteristics
- Upper- Class
- Knows the classics
- Charming
- Not seeking fame
- Inspiration for art but not artists
- Well educated
- Stayed out of politics
- Characteristics
Individual project on Robert Recorde
Thursday- Go over the group project requirements
Song about Henry VIII and his wives
Friday- Work day for presentations.
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