1. Document-Based Question#1; in-class essay during the long period for each section.
2. Guest lectures on Renaissance Art History with Ellen Zieselman, Curator of Education at New Mexico Museum of Art, Wednesday (10/8) for periods 1 & 6, and Friday (10/10) for period 4.
3. Remember to prepare Current Events Chronicle sections of student binders for review NEXT WEEK.
Day 1, Monday, October 7: Document-Based Question Review
In-class: Come prepared to discuss the primary and secondary source sets from the first six weeks of class, and outline the 2 document-based question options; please see the handout from class or the related post on this blog for further guidelines.
Homework for Day 2 (long periods): Prepare for the in-class Document-Based Question.
Day 2, Long Periods: The Document-Based Question.
In-class: Write or word process your responses to the Document-Based Question.
Homework: Read "A New Spirit in the West: The Renaissance, ca. 1300-1640," in
Western Civilization, ed. Dennis Sherman and Joyce Salisbury, pp. 291-298 (including the inset text on the printing press; stop before "The Politics on Individual Effort"). Make sure to take notes on the following key terms and persons, and answer the following question, which will be graded as part of preparation and participation in the discussion on Day 3.
Homework Question: Why did the Renaissance start in Italy?
Key Terms: The Renaissance, the Middle Ages, the Black Death, the classics, individualism, secularism, humanism and patrons.
Key Persons: Giotto, Petrarch, Michelangelo, Alberti, Christine de Pizan, and Cosimo de Medici.
Day 3: The Renaissance.
In-class: Discuss the key terms and persons and homework question. ALSO: Read, interpret and discuss the primary source handout: #1. Francesco Petrarch's Letter to Boccaccio, #2. Peter Paul Vergerio, "On the Liberal Arts," p. 6, and #3. Raphael's painting, "The School of Athens: Art and Classical Culture," found on p. 313 of the textbook.
Key Terms: Italian city states, the Bonfire of the Vanities, the Papal States, the Great Schism, and theocracy.
Key Persons: The Medici, Savanarola, the Borgia family, Pope Julius II, and Machiavelli.
Day 4, Friday, October 10: The Politics of Individual Effort.
In-class: Discuss the key terms and persons from the homework reading; ALSO: Read, interpret and discuss the primary source handouts #2: Christine de Pizan, "The City of Ladies," and #3. Niccolo Machiavelli, "The Prince".
Guiding questions for discussion:
- What were the common assumptions and arguments about
women?
- How does Christine de Pizan attack those arguments and
assumptions?
- How does her writing embody the Renaissance?
- How does this work reflect the values and practices of
the Renaissance?
- how might these same principles be applied to
contemporary times?
Homework: Read "Individualism as Self-Interest: Life During the Renaissance," in Western Civilization, eds. Sherman/Salisbury, pp. 305-315; make sure to take notes on the following aspects of life during the Italian Renaissance below:
Aspects of life during the Italian Renaissance:
Crime:
Intolerance:
Economy:
Slavery:
Family:
Art:
Architecture:
Music:
Science:
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