Week Beginning Jan. 29th

ART IN FLORENCE textbook link

Answer the questions below, using your textbook, in full sentences. Copy the headings.



Day F

Learning Objective:

What are the main features and causes of the Renaissance?

Tasks

-Reading for 20 minutes
-You will use your text to complete some knowledge questions.
-We will revise ALL the questions from Friday and today in next class. If you get done today- study what you learned!



29.6 Advances in Literature: Casa di Dante 
1. Briefly describe two ways in which Renaissance literature differed from medieval literature.
2. How is Dante’s The Divine Comedy an example of humanist art? 
3. Write the place from Dante’s imaginary journey—Paradiso, Purgatorio, or Inferno—that each image depicts.

A.   
B.                     
C.      

4. Do the same with these quotations:

A. “This mountain is so formed that it is always wearisome when one begins the ascent, but becomes easier the higher one climbs.” 
B. "Here sighs and lamentations and loud cries were echoing across the starless air so that as soon as I set out, I wept."
C. "Heat cannot be separated from fire or beauty from The Eternal.


I'm sick again- no quiz- sorry ;)

Day F

Learning Objective:

Who were the great change makers?

Tasks

-Reading for 20 minutes

-You will work in groups today to move into a new factual understanding- the question in blue, above.
-Open this document, see what group you are working in, divide responsibilities and begin. Use any reliable online resources to help you. Write in note-form. Do not copy and paste: "quote' or paraphrase.

-Finish before next class, if not complete in class.

Day H

Learning Objective:

Who were the great change makers?

Tasks

-Reading for 20 minutes


-You will work in your groups to refine your notes.

Home Learning:
Reading Plus for Sunday PM
Notes by next class
Quiz next class

Day J

Learning Objective:

What are the main features and causes of the Renaissance?

Who were the great change makers?

Tasks

-Reading for 20 minutes

-You have a quiz on everything you have learned about The Renaissance.

-Next you will select a piece of art created by the change-maker you ave studied, and you will critique it. You will present this to your peers next class. You will have lesson 1 on Day A to finish.

Home Learning:

Reading Plus for Sunday PM

Week Beginning January 22nd

You will use these pages from History Alive textbook this week

Second Text


Day A

Learning Objective:

• What was the Renaissance?

Tasks

-Reading for 20 minutes
-Make general notes on the introductory pages
-Learn about Cornell notes and use this system to make notes on the 3 types of art: Classic, Medieval and Renaissance. 

 





There will be a quiz next class!










Day B

Learning Objective:

What are the main features and causes of the Renaissance?

Tasks

-Reading for 20 minutes
-We will begin with a quiz on the 3 types of art you read about yesterday
-Tomorrow you will then complete Cornell notes on the remainder of the chapter: Growth of Trade and Commerce, Italian City-States and Humanism. Set them up now.



Day C

Learning Objective:

What are the main features and causes of the Renaissance?

Tasks

-Reading for 20 minutes

-You will then complete Cornell notes on the remainder of the chapter: Growth of Trade and Commerce, Italian City-States and Humanism. Set them up now.





Day E

Learning Objective:

What are the main features and causes of the Renaissance?

Tasks

-Reading for 20 minutes
-You will use your notes to complete some knowledge questions.
-It's now time to learn about art in Florence. 

ART IN FLORENCE

Answer the questions below, using your textbook, in full sentences. Copy the headings.

29.3 Advances in Architecture and Engineering: Duomo di Santa Maria del Fiore 
1. Briefly describe two ways that classical ideas influenced Renaissance architecture. 
2. How did Brunelleschi build a dome that wouldn’t collapse?

29.4 Advances in Painting: Palazzo Medici 
1. Briefly describe two Renaissance advances in painting styles. 
2. Briefly describe two Renaissance advances in painting techniques.
3. Botticelli painted Adoration of the Magi (below) in about 1482. Research then write in 1-2 sentences what the message of the painting is, then explain at least three perspective techniques he used.


29.5 Advances in Sculpture: Piazza della Signoria 
1. Briefly describe two ways in which Renaissance sculpture was different from medieval sculpture. 
2. What was so amazing about Donatello’s David? About Michelangelo’s David? 

Home Learning
Reading due Sunday
Questions due Monday