In this unit on the Renaissance, students will using their the Internet, Textbook, and other resources with Common Core Standards in History to do independent research to answer the questions about their given person. Students will collect biographical information and examine a five masterpieces by their assigned person. They will then produced a Google Slideshow with a worked cited slide using MLA conventions.

Time Frame two weeks. 

Culminating activity: Students will create a Google Slideshow exploring the question, "How did these important Renaissance Figures influence the world through their works?"

CALIFORNIA HISTORY CONTENT STANDARDS

7.8 Students analyze the origins, accomplishments, and geographic diffusion of the Renaissance.

1. Describe the way in which the revival of classical learning and the arts fostered a new interest in humanism (i.e., a balance between intellect and religious faith).

2. Explain the importance of Florence in the early stages of the Renaissance and the growth of independent trading cities (e.g., Venice), with emphasis on the cities’ importance in the spread of Renaissance ideas.

5. Detail advances made in literature, the arts, science, mathematics, cartography, engineering, and the understanding of human anatomy and astronomy (e.g., by Dante Alighieri, Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo di Buonarroti Simoni, Johann Gutenberg, William Shakespeare).

COMMON CORE READING STANDARDS FOR LITERACY IN HISTORY/SOCIAL STUDIES 6–12

RH 1. Cite specific textual evidence to support analysis of primary and secondary sources.

RH 2. Determine the central ideas or information of a primary or secondary source; provide an accurate summary of the source distinct from prior knowledge or opinions.

RH 8. Distinguish among fact, opinion, and reasoned judgment in a text.

WHST 2.b. Develop the topic with relevant,well-chosen facts, definitions, concrete details, quotations, or other information and examples.

WHST 6. Use technology, including the Internet, to produce and publish writing and present the relationships between information and ideas clearly and efficiently.

WHST 7. Conduct short research projects to answer a question (including a self-generated question), drawing on several sources and generating additional related, focused questions that allow for multiple avenues of exploration.

Students were assigned one Renaissance artist, architect, or writer and they were to do independent research to collect facts about them and on five examples of their works. They were instructed to gather information and the source of that information so they could produce a work cited using MLA style citation. The students then produced a Google Slideshow to so the significance of the work their person produced and the impact it had on humanism in the world of the Renaissance. 

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