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Unit II: Renaissance

First Semester, Unit II: The Renaissance

Reading Guide and Calendar
Essential Questions:
1. Analyze how Italian renaissance humanists prompted a revival in classical
literature and created new philological approaches to ancient texts.
2. Explore the role that the humanist revival of Greek and Roman texts had on
challenges to the institutional power of universities and the Roman Catholic
Church. Most notably how the focus of education shifted from theology toward
the study of classical texts.
3. Analyze how the admiration for Greek and Roman political institutions
supported a revival of civic humanist culture in the Italian city-states and
produced secular models for individual and political behavior.
4. Explore the role the printing press played in the dissemination of new ideas.
5. Explore the impact of vernacular language on development of national
cultures.
6. Analyze how visual arts incorporated new ideas of the Renaissance and how
they were used to promote personal, political and religious goals.
7. Compare the Renaissance to the late medieval period.
8. Analyze how the influence of the classics and growing trade broadened the
views of Renaissance citizens.
9. Compare the Political structures in form from region to region, in Renaissance
Europe.
10. Compare medieval and Renaissance art.
11. Compare Northern Renaissance and Italian Renaissance.
Essential Skills:
1. Thesis Writing
2. Short Answer
3. Causation
4. Comparison
5. Long Essay Question Organization
6. Introduction to argumentation
Essential Vocab/People:
Renaissance
Estates
Individualism
Secularism
Humanism
Civic humanism
Neoplatonism
Hermeticism
Pantheism
New monarchies
Nepotism
Lorenzo de Medici
Vernacular
City-states
Machiavelli (The Prince)
Erasmus (In Praise of Folly)
Christine de Pisan
Gutenberg
Treaty of Lodi
Marsilius of Padua

Petrarch
Florence
Boccaccio (The Decameron)
Lorenzo Valla
Brunelleschi
Michelangelo
Printing press
Petrarch
Leonardo Bruni
Niccolo Machiavelli
Jean Bodin
Baldassare Castiglione
Francesco Guicciardini
Vernacular literature
Geometric perspective
Naturalism
Pieter Bruegel the Elder
Jan Van Eyck
Leonardo da Vinci
Borgia Family

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Reading Guide Questions:

1. What characteristics distinguish the Renaissance from the Middle Ages?
2. What Major Social Changes occurred during the Renaissance?
3. How did Machiavellis works reflect the political realities of Renaissance Italy?
4. What was humanism, and what effect did it have on philosophy, education,
attitudes toward politics, and the writing of history?
5. What were the chief characteristics of Renaissance art, and how did it differ in
Italy and northern Europe?
6. Why do historians sometimes refer to the monarchies of the late fifteenth
century as new monarchies or Renaissance states?
7. What were the policies of the Renaissance popes, and what impact did those
policies have on the Catholic Church?
8. How did Renaissance art and the humanist movement reflect the political,
economic, and social developments of the period?
9. What was the pattern of political development in Renaissance Italy?
10. What new political practices did the Italians contribute to Europe, and how
were these new political practices reflected in the work of Machiavelli?
11. What was the relationship between Italian Renaissance humanism and Italian
Renaissance art?
Reading Guide/Calendar for Unit I
Date
Agenda
Homework
9/2
1. Test
Read p. 313-320
9/3
2. Intro to Renaissance
Read p. 320-324
3. Causation Chart
4. APPARTS City of Ladies
9/8
1. SAQ
Read p. 324-330
2. Lecture Major states
3. Jigsaw
4. APPARTS Machiavelli
9/10
1. SAQ
Read p. 330-336
2. Introduction to Comparison
3. Thesis Mystery Game
4. Introduce LEQ/Organization
5. APPARTS Petrarch
6. Introduce Hub Date
9/14
1. SAQ
Read p. 336-343
2. Mini Lecture: trends of Renaissance
3. Art Analysis Groups
4. Discussion on Art
9/16
1. SAQ
Study for
2. Introduction into Historical
Test/complete
Argumentation
Reading Guide
3. Analyze Burckhardt and Burke
(Compare)
4. SAQ
9/21
1. Watch Crash Course: Renaissance
Study for
2. APPARTS: Book of Courtier
Test/Complete
3. LAQ
Reading Guide
4. Review
9/24
Test
Read p. 346-356

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