Date: Tuesday April 1

1. TSWBAT explain the geographical reasons of the spread of the Renaissance and the reasons Italy was the base; analyze a primary source to explain the importance of the Medici Family Date: TuesdayApril 1 Warm up: trade map questions discussed! Video on the beginning of the Renaissance Activity: analyze a primary source; discussion; closure

2. Complete Trade Map • Where is Venice? • Mediterranean Sea? • Locate Constantinople and Alexandria on your map • Identify population sizes for question 4. • Complete the following questions on your own!

3. Video 1: Da Vinci's World Part 1 • Answer questions on your worksheet!

4. Lorenzo de Medici: background info • He was a diplomat, politician and patron of scholars, artists, and poets • He is best known for his contribution to the art world, giving large amounts of money to artists so they could create master works of art. • His life coincided with the high point of the mature phase Italian Renaissance and his death coincided with the end of the Golden Age of Florence

5. Lorenzo de Medici • We will be broken into groups of four to examine a letter by Lorenzo de Medici.   • You have guided questions to assist in analyzing the Primary Source.  • We will be discussing these answers and turning them in for points

6. TSWBAT brainstorm ideas behind art: technique, how you learn this, what is the point of art?; describe renaissance art and artists; describe pieces of renaissance art according to what they learned Date: WednesdayApril 2 Warm up: get out your Medici questions and answer the following question on the back of your answer sheet- this will be collected and graded. Activity: Renaissance artists and characteristics introduced

7. Reflect on what you have learned: • At the bottom of your Medici answer sheet: Write a ONE PARAGRAPH (5 complete and grammatically correct sentences) response to this question on a sheet of scratch paper: "How did Lorenzo de Medici's family values and personal interests shape the origins of the Renaissance?"

8. Why do we like art?? • WHO takes art class? • What do you learn in art class? • What techniques? • Why do you take art? • What is important about it? • Is it fun?

9. Vocabulary • Renaissance-The cultural rebirth that occurred in Europe from roughly the fourteenth through the middle of the seventeenth centuries, based on the rediscovery of the literature of Greece and Rome. • Humanism-an outlook or system of thought attaching prime importance to human rather than divine or supernatural matters. Humanist beliefs stress the potential value and goodness of human beings, emphasize common human needs, and seek solely rational ways of solving human problems. • Secular-denoting attitudes, activities, or other things that have no religious or spiritual basis

10. Characteristics of Renaissance Art • Individualism- showed individual people instead of groups • Classicism- classic Roman and Greek influence • Nature- depicted the outdoors • Anatomy- focused on defined and precise human anatomy

11. Characteristics of Renaissance Art • linear perspective- the appearance of things relative to one another as determined by their distance from the viewer • Realism-artistic representation that aims for visual accuracy • Depth- used light and shading to create this • blue background- created depth • Symmetry- balanced proportions

12. Symmetry, light and shadow, religious

13. TSWBAT brainstorm ideas behind art: technique, how you learn this, what is the point of art?; describe renaissance art and artists; describe pieces of renaissance art according to what they learned Date: WednesdayApril 3 Warm up: ON a sheet of scratch paper answer these questions: What two events lead to the fall of the Feudal System? Describe what the Renaissance period means/entails. List 2 reasons why the Renaissance period was able to thrive. Activity: Renaissance artists and characteristics introduced

14. Artists of the Renaissance • Baldassare Castiglione • Italiancourtier, diplomat, soldier and a prominent Renaissanceauthor • HisBook of the Courtier caught the "spirit of the times“ • Castiglione's depicted how the ideal gentleman should be educated and behave • the touchstone of behavior for all the upper classes of Europe for the next five centuries.

15. Artists of the Renaissance • Niccolo Machiavelli • Italian historian, politician, diplomat, philosopher, humanist, and writer based in Florence during the Renaissance.  • He was a founder of modern political science, and more specifically political ethics

16. Artists of the Renaissance • Leonardo da Vinci • was an Italian Renaissance polymath: painter, sculptor, architect, musician, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, geologist, cartographer, botanist, and writer. • Painted the Mona Lisa • Known as the epitome of a Renaissance man

17. Artists of the Renaissance • Michelangelo Buonarroti • was an Italian sculptor, painter, architect, poet, and engineer of the High Renaissance who exerted an unparalleled influence on the development of Western art • held to be one of the greatest artists of all time • Painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel

18. Artists of the Renaissance • Raphael • Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance. • His work is admired for its clarity of form and ease of composition and for its visual achievement of the ideal of human grandeur. • Together with Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci, he forms the traditional trinity of great masters of that period

19. Artists of the Renaissance • Sandro Botticelli • Italian Renaissance painter • His works represent the linear grace of Early Renaissance painting. • Among his best known works are The Birth of Venus and Primavera

20. Vitruvian Man: Why is this considered Renaissance Art?

21. The Birth of Venus: Why is this considered Renaissance art?

22. TSWBAT analyze a piece of art; compare and contrast two artists; formulate their opinion about renaissance art and two artists Date: FridayApril 4 Warm up: take student poll on images on next slide. Activity: read opinion article: Was Michelangelo a better artist than Da Vinci?- answer questions

23. Which do you prefer?Make a list of Renaissance elements for each

24. The Sistine Chapel: • Painted my Michelangelo from 1508 to 1512 • He wanted nothing to do with painting the chapel and it took the Pope time to talk him into it!

26. Read document • How did Leonardo achieve fame? • Why was Michelangelo a successful artist? • How were the careers of these two artists alike and different? • What provoked the long-running spat between Michelangelo and Da Vinci? • Describe each man’s personality; what did they look like, act like, what were they interested in?

27. TSWBAT describe renaissance art and what they understand; navigate the web to describe the art; reflect on what they learned Date: MondayApril 7 Warm up: be prepared for notes check tomorrow! Activity: complete web-quest

28. web quest • GO TO http://www.sonic.net/bantam1/renart.html • Scroll down to the chart and click on links to answer the questions!

29. TSWBAT Date: TuesdayApril 8 Warm up: time to complete web-quest; complete Reflection!—Turn in! Activity: notes check! 20 minutes

30. TSWBAT Date: WednesdayApril 9 Warm up: what changes are being made during the Renaissance? Then, Shakespeare video Activity: PPT on the beginning of the Northern Renaissance and how this spread there; explanation of the main men

31. Shakespeare: Who was he? • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=geev441vbMI

32. The northern European tradition of Gothic Art was greatly affected by the technical and philosophical advancements of the Renaissance in Italy. • Gothic Art is the style of art produced in Northern Europe from the middle ages up until the beginning of the Renaissance. • Typically rooted in religious devotion, it is especially known for the distinctive arched design of its churches, its stained glass, and its illuminated manuscripts.

33. Northern Renaissance artists were less concerned with studies of anatomy and linear perspective. • They were masters of technique, and their works are marvels of exquisite detail.

34. As Italy moved into the High Renaissance, the north retained a distinct Gothic influence. • Yet masters like Albrecht Dürer, Hieronymus Bosch, Pieter Bruegel and Hans Holbein were the equal of the greatest artists of the south. • In the 16th century, as in the south, the Northern Renaissance eventually gave way to highly stylized Mannerist art. • Mannerist art: theatrical and overly stylized work. • Mannerist Art is characterized by a complex composition, with muscular and elongated figures in complex poses.

35. Mannerist Art:

36. Sir Thomas More 1478–1535 • known to Roman Catholics as Saint Thomas More •  More also wrote Utopia, published in 1516, about the political system of an ideal and imaginary island nation. • A fictional story of a “perfect society” that is ultimately unreachable • More opposed the Protestant Reformation • An attempt to reform the Catholic Church that lead to the creation of new national Protestant churches.

37. William Shakespeare 1564 -1616) • He was an English poet, playwrightand actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist.

38. Jan van Eyck 1390-1441 • was a Dutchpainter generally considered one of the most significant Northern European paintersof the 15th century.

39. TSWBAT Date: ThursdayApril 10 Warm up: open up to your notes from yesterday- answer these questions in your notes: What was the style of art in the north before the Renaissance? What style replaced it? Describe that style. Activity: complete PPT; Questionnaire about Erasmus’ goals and achievements; Compare and contrast Albrecht Durer's art to renaissance (see sheet)

40. Desiderius Erasmus-(1467–1536) • A native of the Netherlands • was the most famous and influential humanist of the Northern Renaissance • the leading intellectual figure of the early sixteenth century • most vividly remembered now for his critical satires of abuses in the church and secular society • He was a leading writer on education, specifically humanist educational theory, and certain works of Erasmus laid a foundation for religious toleration. • For Erasmus, the essential point is that humans have the freedom of choice.

41. Complete Questionnaire!

42. Albrecht Dure 1471 – 1528 • German painter, engraver, printma-ker, mathematician, andtheorist. • regarded as the greatest artist of the Northern Renaissance. • His vast body of work includes: altarpieces, religious works, numerous portraits and self-portraits, and copper engravings. • Most famous for his series of 15 woodcuts called, The Apocalypse.

43. Complete art analysis! • Exit card: 1. Name 2 similarities and 2 differences between the Northern and Southern (Italian) Renaissance. 2. Explain why the North and South encountered similarities and differences during their periods of “Renaissance”

44. TSWBAT Date: Friday April 10 Warm up: read intro together as a class and go over what they should be doing for the Document based essay question Activity: DBQ essay due by the end of the period

45. TSWBAT brainstorm the meaning and importance of the Protestant reformation; describe the early reformers; outline and explain Hus’ beliefs; defend his ideas Date: MondayApril 14 Warm up: What was the Protestant Reformation?– Any ideas?– Why would this “time period” be a influential era for a reform/restart…etc? Activity: Early reformers are explored: Jan Hus reading, group activity.

46. Who are the EarlyReformers • 1. John Wycliff, was born in England about 1330.  He believed that the church should give up its earthly possessions. His views proved unpopular with church officials, who removed him from his teaching position. • 2. Jan Hus was born in southern Bohemia about 1370.  He became a priest and was soon preaching against the immorality and worldliness of the Catholic Church.  • In 1412, Hus was excommunicated by Pope Gregory XII.  Hus was later arrested, tried, and burned at the stake. (Ramirez, Stearns, and Wineburg, 2008)

47. Activity: •  read the biography on Jan Husand answer the two questions. • Answer “activity” portion. • What arguments would you present to the council on his behalf?  • Writea brief statement in which you outline Hus's beliefs and explain why the council should side with him. • After you write your explanation, form partners to present your case.  As a whole class, students will present their case and non-presenters will vote to drop charges or sentence Jan Hus.  

48. TSWBAT explain what the reasoning was behind the 95 theses; analyze a selection of the theses; describe Martin Luther’s POV Date: TuesdayApril 15 Warm up: discuss what we learned yesterday (early reformers); Video introduction; copy down next slides questions Activity: 95 theses analysis with questions (Partner Activity)- TO BE CHECKED tomorrow

49. Reformation-- Martin Luther • As you watch the video copy down and answer these questions: we will discuss!! • Why were people fascinated with Martin Luther’s writing? • How does he write? • How did Luther showcase the writings to those who could not read? • Who did Luther “attack” AND why? • Why did he not agree with certain Christian ceremonies in the Catholic Church? WHY? • What social changes did Luther present?

50. Complete worksheet with a partner! • Pass out 95 Theses worksheet and answer the questions with a friend. • This will be graded– however do not turn it in!!