Friday 11/1/13 RAP Read page 178. What does the word Renaissance mean? Today: –Check notes on people, terms, and events for your section. –Get into groups and create posters on your section: covering people, terms, and big events. Be able to answer these two questions. –What happened during the Renaissance that changed Europeans’ outlook on the world? –How did the Reformation shape the religious and political life of Europe?

Today Group readings of the Renaissance beginnings and all about the Reformation. –Read and take notes of your section. –Present poster on your readings to the class on Monday. Work on People and Vocabulary –Quiz on People and vocabulary from Ch. 5 on WEDNESDAY 11/6 –Notes on Ch. 5– people, terms, and events DUE WEDNESDAY!

Monday 11/4/13 RAP Based on what you know of the Renaissance, and reformation time period, who do you think was the most influential? Explain. Today: Notes on PPT first then Present posters and information on Renaissance. PPT Renaissance Present posters and information on Reformation PPT Reformation.

The Italian Renaissance: pages **The Renaissance began in Italy, , giving birth to an interest in the cultures of the classical past. **Renaissance-cultural awakening in the classics. For the first time, since the fall of Rome, European artists and writers focused less on religion and spiritual values and instead emphasized worldly activities and feelings. Later, the Renaissance spread to northern Europe, where it took on a somewhat more religious character. The invention of moveable type in printing made more books available at lower prices, further spreading Renaissance ideas and challenging religious and cultural beliefs. ** Protests against the abuses of the Roman Catholic Church soon led to a split in western Christianity and the beginning of various forms of Protestantism. In response to this development, the Catholic Church began its own counter-reform movement.

Ch. 5.1 Presentation Humanism City life Renaissance Arts

Humanism Italian scholar’s interest in classical learning – a new intellectual movement- which focused on secular themes rather than on religious ideas. –Emphasis on individualism –Human improvement-develop talents through many activities: politics, sports, and the arts. Believed education could help people improve themselves and opened schools that taught the humanities—Greek, Latin, history, and philosophy. –Sonnets As the Renaissance developed, writers also focused on the topics of individual ambition and success. –**Books- “The Prince” by Niccolo Machiavelli -book that analyzed the politics of Renaissance Italy. (PG. 202) Through their teaching and writing, they reawakened the educated public to new ideas that reshaped European civilization.

City Life Most Italian communities became independent city-states. (Map pg. 181) –Each was ruled by wealthy families whose fortunes came from commercial trading or banking. Florence, Rome, and Venice played leading roles in the Renaissance developing its own characteristic life. Renaissance popes rebuilt the ancient city of Rome, and placed political goals ahead of religious duties. Medici family continued to foster the spirit of humanism. Lorenzo Medici “The Magnificent”- wealth helped artists, philosophers, and writers. –City improvements Sewers Paved streets Supported philosophers, artists, and writers.

Renaissance Arts ** The humanists’ emphasis on individual talent inspired Italian artists to express their own values, emotions, and attitudes; to make their subjects lifelike; and to focus on secular and mythological; as well as religious, subjects. The public appreciated works of art and hailed great artists as geniuses. Painters departed from the flat, symbolic style of medieval painting to begin a more realistic style. –** Leonardo da Vinci, skillfully portrayed subjects’ personalities and made designs of mechanical inventions that were far ahead of his time. (Mona Lisa pg. 183, The Last Supper, pg. 186)Leonardo da Vinci –** Michelangelo learned his craft in Florence, crafted sculptures that were awesome in size and suggested controlled but intense emotions. (David, pg.182) Women generally had few roles independent of men; some of them did contribute to the arts because they were daughters to artists or children of noblemen.

Ch. 5.2 Northern Renaissance Spreading Ideas French Renaissance Northern Europe English Renaissance

The Northern Renaissance **War between France and Italy helped spread the Italian Renaissance to Europe. The Storyteller page 188 **In 1456, Johannes Gutenberg developed movable metal type—the printing press- helped to spread knowledge among the middle class. Bible (Pg 192) –Before the printing press a scribe spent 4 to 5 months copying a 200 page text. –After the printing press more books were produced in a few decades than had been copied by hand in several centuries.

**French Renaissance **Character all its own- blended medieval Gothic architecture with classical arches. Chateaux or castles. **Authors wrote comic tales, satires, and parodies of contemporary life.

Northern Europe early 1400s More religious tone in Northern Europe than in Italy. Painters developed a style of painting that relied more on medieval than classical models. (Pg. 190)

English Renaissance 1485 During the Tudor dynasty – King Henry VII brought Italian scholars to England. Social Issues became prominent- –**Thomas More wrote the book “Utopia” criticizing society—saying all citizens are equal. Beheaded by Henry VIII in –**William Shakespeare — drama-dealt with universal human qualities such as jealousy, ambition, love, and despair. Video clip Renaissance ArtistsRenaissance Artists