THE RENAISSANCE:THE BEGINNING NOTES

Have filled out and signed planners on desk for me to check.

You will need your timeline and important people sheet

Bellwork for 3/13What are five words that come to mind when

you hear/think about the Renaissance?

Silk Road, Marco Polo, and the Renaissance In the 1200s, the Mongols reopened the Silk

Road, reviving trade between China and Europe.

Most famous traveler was Marco Polo of Venice, Italy. He arrived in 1275 and stayed for 17 years.

He was a favored guest of Kublai Khan, employed as a diplomat and was sent on missions throughout the Mongol Empire.

When Polo finally came back to Europe, he told of his travels in a book. Some didn’t believe it. On deathbed asked to admit his lies. He said he had describe only half of what he had seen.

Things to Ponder

Read question, think of answer, and write it down. Write class’s answer.

How did the Silk Road and Marco Polo’s travels help lead to the Renaissance in

Europe?

The Renaissance Emerges In Italy, peasants and nobles flocked to the

towns for better living. The nobles began marrying the merchant

middle class and formed a new urban aristocracy. Lived in town, using wealth to build and beautify the city.

Learning started to grow interest outside of theology, like in law, medicine, and science (subjects already being studied in Moorish Spain)

1300s-these trends came together to begin the Renaissance, a cultural revival or “rebirth”

Think, Pair, Share

Read question, think of answer, and when prompted, share with your partner.

Write class’s answer.

What does Marco Polo and the nobility mentioned in the previous slide have in common? What does this tell you about

where the Renaissance started?

Florence, Italy, and the Renaissance Italy was several city-states who served as a

trading crossroads between Europe and rest of known world

The growth of trade promoted a free flow of ideas, opening minds to new ways of thinking and doing

Urban nobility became patrons, supporting artists. Florence was major trade route stop and banking

center, most powerful banking family being the Medici family.

Medicis supported much art and architecture and built many Churches in Florence

Let’s Get Artistic and Creative

In your notes, draw a comic strip that explains how Italy and trade helped start

and spread the Renaissance.

FINAL THOUGHT

Its FRIDAY!!! What is one good thing that happened

to you this week?

THE RENAISSANCE:LIFE CHANGES NOTES

Turn in last week’s bellwork and get a new one

Bellwork for 3/16Based off of Friday’s notes, explain

how the Renaissance began?

Different Perspectives Middle Ages, focused on faith but Renaissance

revived Greek & Roman thought, believing humans & world deserved as much thought as God.

Three new ways of thought: 1.) Humanism-cultural movement based on the study of classical works. Believed learning led to better earthly life rather than serving solely as preparation for eternity.

2.) Secularism-view that religion need not be the center of human affairs. Life opportunity for enjoyment vs. Middle Age painful pilgrimage

3.) Individualism-individual more important than the larger community. Middle Ages, focus on manors’ needs.

Compare and Contrast

Create a two column table, comparing and contrasting the way of thought in the

Middle Ages to the way of thought during the Renaissance

Different Daily Life In the Middle Ages, educated people talked, wrote,

and read in Latin. They attended universities to become doctors, lawyers, and priests.

During the Renaissance, more books were written in the vernacular (everyday spoken language of the people). Led to an increase in literacy.

In the Middle Ages, year based on the seasons and events of the Church. Calendar used was the Julian calendar, established in ancient Rome by Julius Caesar.

Early 1560s, Pope Gregory XIII worked to correct the Julian calendar and 10 years later, developed the Gregorian calendar that we use today.

Think, Pair, Share

Read the question, think of your answer, when prompted share answer with your

group. Write classes’ answerFrance and Spain adopted the new calendar almost immediately, Britain

didn’t adopted until 1752. And Greece didn’t follow it until 1923. Why do you

think France and Spain used it so quickly while Britain and Greece didn’t?

Different Art Art began to change focus from religious to secular. At first, Renaissance art was religious but with a

twist. The Journey of the Magi, painting of wise men journey but it was commissioned by the Medici’s so, includes portraits of the family as if they were actually there.

Eventually art focused on Greek and Roman mythology themes, individual portraits, self-portraits, landscapes and daily life.

Middle Ages artists focus on God, not the human figure or the world. Renaissance art centered on realism and the living world. Used live models to draw or sculpt the human form, showed wide range of emotions.

Compare and Contrast

Below are two paintings of Mary and the infant Jesus. The left is from the Middle Ages; the

right from the Renaissance.

What difference do you notice between the two paintings?

FINAL THOUGHT

Did the Renaissance completely shun religion? Explain.

THE RENAISSANCE:PRINTING AND THE CHURCH

NOTESGroup C, hand out some graded work

You will need your timeline and important people sheet

Bellwork for 3/17How do you think the Church is going to respond to differences happening in the

Renaissance?

The Printing Revolution In 1200s, block printing traveled from China to

Europe through Muslim traders. Block printing-text of a book page was carved

into a block of wood but was time-consuming and expensive. Block used only a few times

Johann Gutenburg invented movable metal type, where individual letters formed in metal could be used again and again.

Things to Ponder

Read the question, think of your answer, and write your answer down. Write the classes’

answer.

What do you think the effects of Gutenburg’s press would be on everyday people?

Reading and Ideas 1455 Gutenberg published the Bible and,

because printed Bibles were less expensive than handwritten ones, many learned to read using these Bibles

Before this, fewer than half of all men maybe 1 out of ten women could read.

Eventually more than just bibles were being printed. Got travelers’ accounts, government decrees, broadsheets (early newspapers)

Reading and literacy allowed people to experience self-expression and forming their own opinions and ideas on matters.

Think, Pair, Share

Read the question, think of your answer, when prompted share answer with your

group. Write classes’ answerSo, if people can read, they start being

able to think for themselves, forming their own opinions. How is self-

expression going to affect the Church?

The Church Reacts Because of self-expression, people began to

criticize the Church. The Church made efforts to censor (remove

material or prevent publication) what people read.

Church officials published a list of prohibited books to guide censors whose job it was to approve or forbid works from being published.

Once on the list, author’s future work would not be published, so many authors self-censored their work.

Things to Ponder

Read the question, think of your answer, and write your answer down. Be sure to

write the classes’ answer.Your textbook said that “Censorship was seen as a way to reduce bad influences

on people’s morality.” That is very noble of the Church. Why else do you think the Church would try to censor some

works?

FINAL THOUGHT

So, reading leads to thinking and thinking can lead to questioning and

questioning can lead to…

THE RENAISSANCE:THE PEOPLE OF

You will need your important people sheet

Bellwork for 3/18Name as many people you can that

lived and thrived during the Renaissance

Renaissance Man Research