General outcome:
Through an examination of Renaissance Europe, students will demonstrate
an understanding and appreciation of how the exchange of ideas and
knowledge contributed to shaping the worldview of the Western world.
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How did the Renaissance spark the growth
and exchange of ideas and knowledge across
Europe (i.e., astronomy, mathematics,
science, politics, religion, arts)?
In what ways did thinkers and philosophers
influence society in the development of a
humanist worldview during the Renaissance?
Read the chapter title (page 48)
Knowing what you already know, guess what ideas
would have had the most impact on people, and
how and where these ideas might have spread.
 Read the chapter introduction
 What types of people were involved in spreading
the ideas of the Italian Renaissance? Define each
type
 Discuss: What types of people are likely to influence
the ideas of the modern-day western world,
especially in Canada?
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Geographic reasons
why the Renaissance
was slow to spread to
the rest of Europe?
 Create a picture
diagram that
summarizes why ideas
were slow to spread
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Create a cause and effect diagram that
summarizes the factors that made it possible
for Renaissance ideas to spread quickly
If you need help creating a cause and effect
diagram look at the skills center in your
textbook (pg. 369)
Cause= the big event
Effect= How the event helped the
Renaissance spread quickly
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Please read pages 53-54
Reflect and respond #1-3
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Possible meanings?
Think of other words ending in ism
Read pages 55-56, respond to question #1-2
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Get into groups of 6-7
Grab a copy of the Jigsaw template.
Decide amongst your group members who
will be responsible for learning about each set
of people
As a group design the format that your group
members will use to write their biographies
(ie. What is important information to share?)
Get into your expert groups
1. Scholars and Philosophers (pg. 57-59)
2. Artists (pg. 62-68)
3. Scientists and Mathematicians (pg. 69-71)
4. Writers (pg. 72-73)
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First read the relevant pages in the textbook taking notes
and organizing information.
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Choose one person that you are going to do a bibliography
on and use information from the textbook and the internet
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Work with the other experts in your group to complete the
Reflect & Respond questions in your section
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Before we gather information on the
internet…..
Grab a “taking an Internet Field Trip” handout
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Each expert (or pair of experts) should make a
presentation to the home group about the
people they were studying
As a group read pages 74-75 and answer
Reflect & Respond #1-3 page 75.
If you finish early, do you think it’s a good
idea to read the pages that you didn’t read?
Scholars travelled from one university to
another to study and teach
 Northern Europeans wanted to learn more
about humanism, so they left for Italian
universities and brought humanist ideas and
attitudes back home with them
1. Petrarch
2. Erasmus
3. Guillaume Bude
4. Michel de Montaigne
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Art for many people is the key change during the
Renaissance
New artistic styles were developed, techniques, and
materials to coincide with changing worldviews
Art during the renaissance reflected the new
thinking of humanism
Artists became more interested in the world around
them
Artists changed their painting styles dramatically,
portraying humanist subject matter or religious
works in humanist style
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Figures in religious renaissance art became
more lifelike than ever before, with realistic
human proportions and facial expressions
Human dissection lead to more knowledge
about the human body
The world as it actually looked became a
common background in paintings
More portraits were being painted
Art became marketable
A lot of factors made it difficult for science and
mathematics' to gain support:
1. Religion put the focus on afterlife; scientific
questioning was discouraged
2. Europe very superstitious; believed in astrology
and witchcraft
3. No money after arts were being sponsored
4. No university really encouraged it
 Soon scientists began asking questions and
looking for the natural causes of events rather than
accepting what had been determined.
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Used math and careful
observations to
develop a different
theory of the universe
 Copernicus proved
that earth was not the
center of the universe,
rather the sun was
 Views were considered
heresy by church
 100 years later his
theory was accepted
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Began dissecting
human cadavers once
the Pope allowed it, to
help physicians and
artists
 He recorded numerous
plans for inventions
 Considered a
“Renaissance man”
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His work was built by
Islamic scholars
 Solutions for doubling
a cube, trisecting a
triangle, useful for
engineering and
architecture
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Although Latin was the dominant language,
some writers began to compose their works
in their own vernacular languages.
1. Geoffrey Chaucer
2. Sir Thomas Moore
3. Francois Rabelais
4. William Shakespeare
 Grab a copy of the poetry handout and read
the poems, when finished complete the
handout
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The Renaissance- Art, Music and Literature (22 minutes)
The Renaissance- Science and Invention (22 minutes)
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Review the model showing that Worldview
Affects the way a Society operates (pg.9)
Review the term: Quality of Life
Read page 76-82 and respond to Question
#2a pg. 80.
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The Renaissance-Everyday Life in the
Renaissance (25 minutes)
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Please read page 86 and answer question #1
of the Review and Synthesize page 87.