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Renaissance Theme Unit

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Reading Comprehensions
History
     What Was the Renaissance? (Grades 6-8)
     The Medici Family (Grades 6-8)
     The Sforza Family (Grades 6-8)
     The Renaissance in Northern Europe (Grades 6-8)
     The Renaissance in France (Grades 6-8)
     King Henry VII (Grades 6-8)
     King Henry VIII (Grades 6-8)
     Queen Elizabeth I (Grades 6-8)
     King James VI and I (Grades 6-8)
     The Fall of Constantinople (Grades 6-8)
     Defeat of the Spanish Armada (Grades 6-8)

Religion Reformation
     Erasmus (Grades 6-8)
     Martin Luther (Grades 6-8)
     John Calvin (Grades 6-8)

Leonardo da Vinci
     Draw Like da Vinci (Grades 5-6)
     Leonardo da Vinci's Drawings (Grades 6-8)
     Leonardo da Vinci's Paintings (Grades 6-8)
     Leonardo da Vinci's Sculpture (Grades 6-8)
     Leonardo da Vinci's Flying Machines (Grades 6-8)
     Leonardo da Vinci's Labor Saving Machines (Grades 6-8)
     Leonardo da Vinci's Robots (Grades 6-8)
     Leonardo da Vinci - Music Maker (Grades 6-8)
     Leonardo da Vinci - Architect (Grades 6-8)
     Leonardo da Vinci - Scientist (Grades 6-8)
     Leonardo da Vinci - Military Engineer (Grades 6-8)
     Leonardo da Vinci's Notebooks (Grades 6-8)
     Even Leonardo Made Mistakes (Grades 6-8)
     Leonardo da Vinci, the Renaissance Multitasker (Grades 9-12)

Painters and Sculptors
     Giotto (Grades 6-8)
     Masaccio (Grades 6-8)
     Andrea del Verrocchio (Grades 6-8)
     Donatello (Grades 6-8)
     Botticelli (Grades 6-8)

Architecture
     Brunelleschi's Dome (Grades 6-8)
     Experience the Renaissance in Vatican City (Grades 6-8)

Explorers
     Giovanni da Verrazano (Grades 6-8)
     Amerigo Vespucci (Grades 6-8)
     Hernando Cortes (Grades 6-8)

Inventions
     Reading and Writing in the Renaissance (Grades 6-8)
     The Navigator's Tools (Grades 6-8)
     Telling Time in the Renaissance (Grades 6-8)

Scientists
     Sir Francis Bacon (Grades 6-8)
     Rene Descartes (Grades 6-8)
     Tycho Brahe (Grades 6-8)
     Johannes Kepler (Grades 6-8)

Literature
     East Meets West in Renaissance Literature (Grades 6-8)
     Poetry of the Renaissance (Grades 6-8)
     Boccaccio (Grades 6-8)
     Petrarch the Poet (Grades 6-8)
     Lorenzo de'Medici (Grades 6-8)
     Christopher Marlowe, Man of Mystery (Grades 6-7)
     The King James Bible (Grades 6-8)

Theatre
     Renaissance Theatres (Grades 6-8)
     Drama in the Renaissance (Grades 6-8)
     Renaissance Actors (Grades 6-8)

Music
     Renaissance Music (Grades 6-8)
     Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (Grades 6-8)

Business
     Business Booms During the Renaissance! (Grades 6-8)
     Banking in the Renaissance (Grades 6-8)
     Renaissance Guilds (Grades 6-8)

Growing Up in the Renaissance
     Education in the Renaissance (Grades 6-8)
     Renaissance Fashion (Grades 6-8)
     Dinner Will Be Served at Noon (Grades 6-8)

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Renaissance Analogies

Renaissance Analogies

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