1. Warm-up Copy HW Take out your political cartoon
Please trade it with your partner
On the back of your partners write the main idea of their cartoon

2. Essential Questions
What happens when societies are confronted with change?
How can societies used what they learned from the past?

3. Humanism section 27.5 Please title page 4 of your notebook Humanism
Please read pages
Take notes as you read…key definitions, people and concepts

4. Humanism
A philosophy that tries to balance religious faith with an emphasis on individual dignity and an interest in nature and human society

5. Francesco Petrarch Founder of Italian Renaissance Humanism
Created a library of Classical texts
for Renaissance scholars

6. The Humanities Subjects that focused on Human life and culture Grammar
Rhetoric
History
Poetry
Ethics

7. Individualism
The belief of the importnace of the individuals achievements and dignity

8. Religious Views Separation of church state Still believe in heaven
Don’t sin
Questioned the Catholic leaders

9. Humanism Quiz
Please give careful consideration to the questions on your Humanism quiz.
Please focus on your own quiz and closely reflect on your personally philosophies.

10. Are You a Humanist????
Please record your percentage on the back of your quiz and write down three reasons why you believe your score turned out the way it did!!

11. Recent Renaissance Speech
Steps to Success
1. Choose a person from my list to research.
2. Please thoroughly research your individual.
3. Gather research about the background, accomplishments and impact of this
individual.
4. This should be a two minute speech broken down in the following fashion…
Background 30 seconds
Accomplishments 60 seconds
Impact seconds
5. Create a grabber for your speech!!
6. Please type a copy of you information in an organized and professional manner.
7. Please create notecards for when you present.
8. Practice your speech several times before you present!
9. Ask a teacher for help with concepts and vocabulary you don’t understand!
10. You do not need to prepare a power point!!!!
11. Always end by thanking your audience and asking if there are any questions.

12. Score sheet Total Score ___________________________/40 points
Presentation Skills (eye contact, volume, fluency, clarity) ___________/16
Grabber____________________________________________________/4
Background information_______________________________________/4
Accomplishments ____________________________________________/8
Impact your individual has had on our world ______________________/4
Typed research ______________________________________________/2
Notecards (numbered) _______________________________________/2
Total Score ___________________________/40 points

13. Closure
Please create an acrostic poem for the word H U M A N I S