1. Renaissance Unit
English IV

2. Objectives and Skills
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL Determine two or more themes or central ideas of a text and analyze their development over the course of the text, including how they interact and build on one another to produce a complex account; provide an objective summary of the text.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in the text, including figurative and connotative meanings; analyze the impact of specific word choices on meaning and tone, including words with multiple meanings or language that is particularly fresh, engaging, or beautiful. (Include Shakespeare as well as other authors.)
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL12.7 Analyze multiple interpretations of a story, drama, or poem (e.g., recorded or live production of a play or recorded novel or poetry), evaluating how each version interprets the source text. (Include at least one play by Shakespeare and one play by an American dramatist.)
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W12.2 Write informative
/explanatory texts to examine and convey complex ideas and information clearly and accurately through the effective selection, organization, and analysis of content.
Tone Symbolism
Point of View Imagery
Theme

3. Historical Background
Renaissance means “re-birth” – renewed interest in classical learning (writings of Ancient Greece and Rome)
Humanism – Intellectual movement – looked to harmonize Classics and Christianity philosophically “What is a human being?” Attaining virtue was most important

4. More Historical background
Gutenburg press created
1476 – Printing Press came to England
Church Reformation
1530s England broke from Roman Catholic Church – development of Prostestantism
Church of England established

5. Renaissance Poetry characteristics
Made new poems using themes & forms of old poems from the Classics – Carpe Diem, e.g.
Aristocratic tone – unconcerned with the working people
Wrote pastoral poems
Drew on personal experiences, but relied on traditional poetic forms
Poems full of puns and extended metaphors

6. Renaissance Drama Era of Shakespeare
Miracle and Mystery Plays based on Bible
Morality Plays taught morals