Explore the Renaissance!
| State | WV |    |
| Status | Ready for Users | |
| Stage | Public | |
| Subject | English/Language Arts Mathematics Social Studies | |
| Author | Connie Briles
Mary Ann Patton Cari Ryan Pauley | |
| Description | This unit integrates math, social studies, and language arts as it explores the Renaissance. Specific topics include tessellations and mosaics, Elizabethan English, the bubonic plague, Renaissance personalities, and William Shakespeare. | |
| The 21st Century Tools | PowerPoint, Internet, date projector, overhead projector, video, televion, VCR, word processor | |
| Grade Level | 10 | |
| National Standards | Art: Understands connections among the various art forms
and other disciplines Art: Understands the visual arts in relation to history and cultures Health: Knows environmental and external factors that affect individual and community health History: Understands economic, social, and cultural developments in the contemporary United States Language Arts: Uses the general skills and strategies of the writing process Language Arts: Gathers and uses informaiton for research purposes Language Arts: Uses listening and speaking strategies for different purposes Mathematics: Understands and applies basic and advanced properties of the concepts of geometry | |
| Career Clusters | Fine Arts and Humanities | |
| Keywords | Renaissance
mosaic tessellation Elizabethan bubonic plague | |
| Lesson Plan URLs (new Window) | Lesson 1: Mosaic Tessellations
Lesson 2: Is that English? English during the Renaissance Lesson 3: Keeping away from The Black Death Lesson 4: Renaissance Personality Lesson 5: William Shakespeare: Fact or Fiction? | |
| References | Gode Cookery, The Elizabethan Review, Britannica, Encarta, Shakespeare Online, West Virginia Shakespeare Institute, Shakespeare Birthplace Trust | |
| English IGO or CSO | 10.1, 10.3, 10.7, 10.13, 10.26, 10.30, 10.35, 10.39, 10.43,
10.44, 10.45, 10.48, 10.49, 10.51, 10.77, 10.81, 10.82, 10.83, 10.86 | |
| Fine Arts IGO or CSO | GA 11.3, 11.5, 11.8, 11.11, 11.12 | |
| Health IGO or CSO | HE 18, 23, 31, 59, 61, 63 | |
| Math IGO or CSO | Geometry 14, 19, 23 | |
| Science IGO or CSO | HAP 45, 55 | |
| Social Studies IGO or CSO | 10.38, 10.44, 10.54, 10.63, 10.64 | |