Standards and Objectives:
By the conclusion of this unit, students will meet all standards associated with the Renaissance and Reformation, as well as build upon their historical thinking and inquiry skills.
Sunshine State Standards:
Standard 4: Analyze the causes, events, and effects of the Renaissance, Reformation, Scientific Revolution, and Age of Exploration.
Objectives:
At the conclusion of this unit, 9th grade world history students will be able to:
National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS) Standards:
Era 5: Intensified Hemispheric Interactions: 1000-1500 CE:
Goal 3 Standards:
Sunshine State Standards:
Standard 4: Analyze the causes, events, and effects of the Renaissance, Reformation, Scientific Revolution, and Age of Exploration.
- SS.912.W.4.1: Identify the economic and political causes for the rise of the Italian city-state (Florence, Milan, Naples, Rome, Venice)
- SS.912.W.4.2: Recognize major influences on the architectural, artistic, and literary developments of the Italian Renaissance (Classical, Byzantine, Islamic, Western European)
- SS.912.W.4.3: Identify the major artistic, literary, and technological contributions of individuals during the Renaissance (examples are Petrarch, Brunelleschi, Giotto, the Medici Family, Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, Erasmus, Thomas More, Machiavelli, Shakespeare, Gutenberg, El Greco, Artemisia, Gentileschi, Van Eyck)
- SS.912.W.4.4: Identify characteristics of Renaissance humanism in works of art.
- SS.912.W.4.4: Identify criticisms of the Roman Catholic Church by individuals such as Wycliffe, Hus, and Erasmus and their impact on later reforms.
- SS.912.W.4.8: Summarize religious reforms associated with Luther, Calvin, Zwingli, Henry VIII, and John of Levden and the effects of the Reformation on Europe.
- SS.912.W.4.9: Analyze the Roman Catholic Church's response to the Protestant Reformation in the forms of the Counter and Catholic Reformations
Objectives:
At the conclusion of this unit, 9th grade world history students will be able to:
- identify the causes and effects of the Renaissance, Reformation, and Counter Reformation
- recognize the influence of major earlier societies on Italian Renaissance workers, particularly that of ancient Greece and Rome
- differentiate between Renaissance movements in Italy and that of Northern Europe
- assess and appraise the developments in art, literature, and society during the Renaissance by major artisans such as Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, and Shakespeare
- utilize works by Erasmus, Calvin, and Luther to criticize the Roman Catholic Church during the 1300s-1500s
- utilize content knowledge of the Reformation and Counter Reformation to make predictions about the evolution of Christianity in Europe and abroad
National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS) Standards:
Era 5: Intensified Hemispheric Interactions: 1000-1500 CE:
- Standard 2: The Redefining of European Society, 1000-1300 CE:
- Explain the changing political relationship between the Catholic Church and Secular states.
- Explain the importance of inheritance laws, arranged marriages, dowries, and family alliances for dynastic and aristocratic politics.
- Analyze how prosperous city-states arose in Italy and northern Europe and compare the political institutions of city-states with those of centralizing monarchies
- Analyze how the rise of schools and universities in Italy, France, and England contributed to literacy, learning, and scientific advancement.
- Evaluate major works of art, architecture, and literature and analyze how they shed light on values and attitudes in Christian society
- Standard 5: Patterns of Crisis and Recovery in Afro-Eurasia, 1300-1450:
- Analyze the demographic, economic, social, and political effects of the plague pandemic in Eurasia and North Africa in the second half of the 14th century
- Assess the effects of crises in the Catholic Church on its organization and prestige
- Define humanism as it emerged in Italy in the 14th and 15th centuries and analyze how study of Greco-Roman antiquity and critical analysis of texts gave rise to new forms of literature, philosophy, and education
- Evaluate the aesthetic and cultural significance of major changes in the techniques of painting, sculpture, and architecture
- Standard 2: How European Society experienced political, economic, and cultural transformations in an age of global communication:
- Analyze the social and intellectual significance of the technological innovation of printing with movable type.
- Explain connections between the Italian Renaissance and the development of humanist ideas in Europe north of the Alps
- Evaluate major achievements in literature, music, painting, sculpture, and architecture in 16th-century Europe.
- Explain discontent among Europeans with the late medieval Church and analyze the beliefs and ideas of the leading Protestant reformers
- Explain the aims and policies of the Catholic Reformation and assess the impact of religious reforms and divisions on European cultural values, family life, convent communities, and men’s and women’s education.
- Analyze causes of religious wars in 16th- and 17th-century Europe and account for the rise of religious pluralism.
Goal 3 Standards:
- Information Managers
- Effective Communicators
- Numeric Problem Solvers
- Creative and Critical Thinkers
- Responsible and Ethical Workers
- Resource Managers
- Systems Managers
- Cooperative Workers
- Effective Leaders
- Multiculturally Sensitive Citizens