This is the outline that I created in order to show cross-curriculum concepts on that subject.
Renaissance Unit Outline - Grade 8
I. Purpose: Throughout a six week time period, students will become familiar with the Renaissance time period through cross-curriculum studies. Students will be involved in many forms of instruction to both illuminate and clarify the time period and its contributions in terms of art, music, history, science, mathematics, language, world language and sports.
II. Outcomes:
• Following class discussions and videos, students will identify and characterize the foundations of the Renaissance. This will be assessed through the KWL method.
• Students will be able to describe the Copernican Theory and apply it creatively. This will be assessed through an editorial activity (oral communication).
• Students will define the following terms of the Renaissance to be assessed through a short-answer test: Renaissance, humanist, humanities, Aristotelian (Aristotle), Inquisition, indulgences, heliocentric, geocentric, elliptical, alchemy, metaphysical poetry, classical allusion, metaphysical conceit, satire, neo-Classicism, perspective, utopia, city-state, nationalism, inductive method, scientific method.
• Following a class discussion and readings, students will be able to explain concepts about themes in poetry, and define concept, symbolism and rhyme scheme by providing a written or musical example of each.
• After analyzing a handout example of a timeline and evaluating key features through discussion, students will create a graphic organizer that distinguishes primary facts of the Renaissance on history/politics, literature/theater, arts/music, and science/technology/inventions.
• Given a set of questions to be answered from a handout and assessed through a rubric, students will choose from a selection of guilds and create an autobiography of themselves living in the Renaissance using appropriate information (resources, society, occupation, inventions) with the use of previous materials.
• After viewing the film "Romeo & Juliet" and reading the play as arranged for modern reading, students will analyze and retell the story in their own words in short answers in a test and evaluated with a rubric.
• After viewing the films "Romeo & Juliet" and "West Side Story," students will compare and contrast both films through a "Siskel & Ebert/Lyons & Medved" review of no more than five minutes, evaluated with a rubric
• After class discussion and comparison outline, students will work in cooperative pairs and be evaluated with a peer critique rubric, to research, design, display and describe a poster featuring two corresponding themes between a modern theater and/or film production, a book and/or story, or a book/story and movie/theater production.
III. CONTENT:
A. Definition of Movement
Overall Definition &
Styles Introduced
Terminology and Vocabulary
Impact
B. Historical Perspective
Length of Time of period
Social Perspective & Events
Political Climate
Religion & society
C. Literature of the Renaissance
Genres
Poetry
Biographies
Parables
Drama
D. Art
Introduction of new styles
Architecture
Paintings
Sculpture
E. Drama & Theater
Construction of the theater
Construction of a play
Speech
Themes & Issues in society
F. Scientific & Mathematical Discoveries & Inventions of the Renaissance
Bacon & Descartes- Experimentation and scientific research
Gutenberg - Spreading the word(s)
Copernicus - Heliocentrism vs. Geocentrism
Harvey - Blood circulation
Vesalius - Modern Anatomy
Brahe - The Position of the Planets
Kepler - The three laws of the solar system
Galileo - The telescope, dynamics & mechanics
Newton - Physical laws of the universe
Gilbert -Magnetism
Da Vinci - Master Inventor
Boyle - Laboratory pioneer
Hooke - The compound microscope
Leeuwenhoek - Microbe hunter
Pascal - Pressure & liquid laws
IV. TIMELINE:
WEEK ONE: Introduction to the Renaissance
What do students know? Questions?
Review of description of Renaissance as time period
Major events in cultural progress
The Age of (Re)Discovery
Discussion on multi-cultural Renaissance periods
WEEK TWO: History and contributions
The divisions of European countries
War & Peace in Europe
Monarchy and city-states
Thomas Hobbes
John Locke
Niccolo Machiavelli
Martin Luther
Writing an illustrated newspaper
Mapping a Renaissance timeline
WEEK THREE: Introduction of Literature
Discussion of significant terminology
Authors and their styles
Sir Thomas Moore
Desiderius Erasmus
Niccolo Machiavelli
Francis Bacon
Miguel de Cervantes
William Shakespeare
Creative Writing on Renaissance theme
WEEK FOUR: The Rise of Art
The influence of the Church on Art
The Great Cathedrals
The Development of Dance
The Great Master Painters
Leonardo Da Vinci's Art/Science
Michelangelo
Raphael
Titian
The birth of Opera
WEEK FIVE: Discussion of Theater and Rules
The Globe Theater
Books, Printing & Theater
WEEK SIX: Exploring the Scientific Revolution
Nicolaus Copernicus
Ideas about the Solar System
Religious influences on science
Galileo
Tycho Brahe
Johannes Kepler
Isaac Newton
Gravity & magnetism
William Harvey & blood analyses
Andreas Vesalius
Beginnings of medical research
Pascal
Classroom hands-on experiments
V. EVALUATION
PROJECTS:
1. Timeline (5%)
2. Poster (5%)
3. Editorial speaking activity (10%)
4. Shakespeare movie review (10%)
WRITING ACTIVITIES:
1. Definitions & terms (15%)
2. Autobiography (20%)
3. Test on "Romeo & Juliet" (15%)
CLASS ASSIGNMENTS (outlines, essays) (10%)
PARTICIPATION/GROUP WORK (10%)
VI. Absent students/missed work
• Students who miss class when an assignment is due must have a written excuse or doctor's note and must hand in the work the day upon returning to class. E-mail submission for emergencies are available.
• Students who are absent the day of a quiz may make it up after school or during their lunch period the following day.
• Students who do not discuss a possible delay on a completed project will have points deducted from their final grade.
VII. RESOURCES
1. Student text
2. Teacher text
3. Encyclopedia of the Renaissance
4. Additional handouts
5. Encarta 98
6. Transparencies
7. Markers
8. Posterboard
9. Highlighters
10. Literature books
11. Overhead
12. Scissors
13. Construction paper
14. Computers
15. Index cards
16. Three-ring binder (optional)
17. Journals
18. Library and reference books
19. A&E Biography series videos
20. "Romeo & Juliet" - MGM Films
21. "West Side Story" - MGM Films
22. "Copernicus" - The Rise of Science Series
VIII. Bibliography
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Atchity, Kenneth J. (Editor) & McKenna, Rosemary (Editor). (1996)). The Renaissance Reader. New York: Harpercollins.
Black, C.F., Greengrass, Mark, & Howarth, David. (1993). Cultural Atlas of the Renaissance. New York: Macmillan General Reference
Browning, D.C. (1993). The Complete Dictionary of Shakespeare Quotations. New York: Barnes & Noble Books.
Boorstin, Daniel J. (1983). The Discoverers: A History of Man's Search to Know His World and Himself. New York: Random House.
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New York: Simon and Shuster.
Durant, Ariel & Will. (1968). The Lessons of History. New York: Simon and Shuster.
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