Classroom Update (09/1/2022)

 

Thursday, September 1, 2022

World History (Block)

EQ-

- Why did the Italian Renaissance produce some of the world’s most extraordinary writers and artists?

- How do the works of Renaissance artists and architects reflect Renaissance ideas?

Topic: The Italian Renaissance - Art & Literature

• DJ- How were western Europeans able to access ancient Greek texts again?
• Current Events - CNN10
• Go over Engineering an Empire: Da Vinci's World Notes ( if needed)
• Read and complete Module 14 Lesson 2 on the Italian Renaissance writers
• Complete and discuss the Renaissance Art Analysis
• Assignments: 
• Renaissance Unit Vocabulary Packet - Due 9/8
• Renaissance Unit Assessment - MOved to 9/9
• Current Events Analysis - MOved to 9/14
• WH Enrichment:
• Google Arts and Culture: Italian Renaissance
• Supplemental Video: Florence and the Renaissance: Crash Course European History #2
• Interesting Article(s): 
• Renaissance Masterpiece Found Hanging in a 90-Year-Old Woman’s London Bedroom
• How the Medici Used Portraits as Propaganda

Recent U.S. History (Block)

EQ-

- How did cities deal with housing, transportation, sanitation, and safety issues caused by rapid urbanization?

Topic: Politics in the Gilded Age

• DJ- What motivated reformers to tackle the problems of urban poverty?
• Current Events - CNN10
• Read and complete Module 4 Lesson 3 on Politics in the Gilded Age
• View The Presidents DVD - Hayes and Garfield
• Assignments: 
• Map Assessment - 9/21
• WH Enrichment:
• Google Arts and Culture: Lower East Side Tenement Museum
• Supplemental Video: Growth, Cities, and Immigration: Crash Course US History #25
• Interesting Article: 
• Pioneering Social Reformer Jacob Riis Revealed “How The Other Half Lives” in America

World History (Skinny)

EQ-

- During the fourteenth century, how did the bubonic plague shake Europe socially, politically, and economically?

- Which shifts in society had the greatest impact on the Renaissance? - How did humanism influence Renaissance ideas?

Topic: The Italian Renaissance - Work Day

• DJ- None
• Current Events - CNN10
• The Black Death Explained: Global History Review
• Work Time
• Assignments: 
• Read and complete Lesson Document on Module 14 Lesson 1
• WH Enrichment:
• Google Arts and Culture: The Black Death
• Supplemental Video: Disease! Crash Course World History 203
• Interesting Article(s): 
• Did the Black Death Rampage Across the World a Century Earlier Than Previously Thought?

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