Unit Plan
Renaissance: Revisited, Revitalized, Relived
Title: Renaissance: Revisited, Revitalized,
Relived
Authors:
Anne Yost
Sharon Price
Jenny L. Santilli
Grade Levels: 9-10
Subjects:
English/Language Arts
Social Studies
Advanced Communication
Description: Students will not only acquire
knowledge and gain perspective about the Renaissance period but will also
have a Renaissance experience, culminating with a cross-curricular faire.
The focus of the exploration will concentrate on the 15th to the mid-17th
centuries. The unit is adaptable and can be easily incorporated with
other course material a teacher may be required to cover outside the Renaissance
unit.
Learner Outcomes:
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Students will gain background knowledge through traditional
and technological research; in addition, students will study William
Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.
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Students will present their research findings through PowerPoint
presentations to other subject area classes.
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Students will learn to work cooperatively with peers and
adults to coordinate, organize, and implement all aspects of a Renaissance
Faire.
Time Frame: Depending on which lessons are chosen,
the unit is about 15 90-minutes class periods; lessons themselves range
from two to ten 90-minute class periods.
Job/Career Clusters:
Fine Arts and Humanities
Health and Human SErvices
West Virginia IGO's/National Standards:
West Virginia
IGO's:
Language Arts:
9.1, 9.5, 9.14, 9.16, 9.19, 9.25, 9.28, 9.37, 9.40, 9.45, 9.65, 9.68, 9.74,
9.95
World History: 10.43, 10.44, 10.46, 10.47,
10.54, 10.55, 10.57, 10.63, 10.64, 10.65
Advanced Communication: ADC26, ADC27, ADC30,
ADC35, ADC37
National
Standards:
Language Arts:
Gathers and uses information for research purposes.
Uses reading skills and strategies to understand and
interpret a variety of informational texts.
Uses viewing skills and strategies to understand and
interpret visual media.
World History:
Undertands the redefinition of European society and culture
from 1000 to 1300CE.
Understands how European society experienced political,
economic, and cultural transformation in an age of global intercommunication
between 1450 and 1750.
Understands the economic, poplitical, and cultural interrelations
among peoples of Africa, Europe, and the Americas between 1500 and 1750.
Life Skills:
Contributes to the overall effort of a group.
Works well with deverse individuals and in deverse situations.
Created by
Anne Yost
yostanne@hotmail.com
Sharon Price
sprice42@hotmail.com
Jenny L. Santilli
jennysantilli@hotmail.com
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