HW 11/30 Ch. 21, Sec. 3 & 4

Read Chapter 21, Sections 3 & 4 from your textbook. As you read, take notes in OUTLINE FORMAT.

Due:

Period 7: Wednesday 12/2
Period 8: Thursday 12/3

HW 11/24 Ch. 21 sec. 1 & 2

Read Chapter 21, Sections 1 & 2 in your textbook and take notes as you read in outline format.

Due: Monday, 11/30

HW 11/20

THERE ARE NO BLOCKS THIS COMING WEEK (11/23- 11/25)

General Note:

In this unit we have had homework assignments for the following readings:

Chapter 19, Section 1
Chapter 20, Section 1 and 4

If you have not completed outline notes for any of these sections please do so.

PERIOD 7 HOMEWORK ONLY:

Read Chapter 20, Section 4 and take OUTLINE notes as you read

Due: Monday 11/23

HW 11/23 Disease in Americas

Read "Disease in the Americas" article and answer the following questions on a piece of paper. Answers should be in blue or black ink or typed and printed.

Due: Tuesday, 11/24

1. What evidence does the article give that disease spread rapidly throughout the Americas?

2. How did the spread of disease facilitate (make easier) the colonization of North America?

3. What is epidemiology?

4. What methods did ethnographers use to estimate the devastation to the population caused by Europeans?

5. Was the spread of disease in the Americas an act of bio-terrorism? Use examples and facts from the article or textbook to back up your claim. You must choose a side.

Study Guide: Renaissance, Reformation, Scientific Revolution

HOMEWORK QUESTIONS FOR DESCARTES AND BACON ARE IN THE POST BELOW THIS ONE. SCROLL DOWN!

Exam: The Renaissance, The Reformation, and The Scientific Revolution
Period 7: Monday, Nov. 16th
Period 8: Tuesday, Nov. 17th

Reading Materials to Review:

Textbook:

Chapter 14, Sections 2, 3
Chapter 17, Sections 1, 2, 3, 4
Chatper 22, Section 1

Readings:

Machiavelli's Prince
What Was the Protestant Reformation?
Complaints Against the Church
Protestant Reformation Packet # 1 (Tetzel vs Luther)
Royal Challenges to Papal Power
3 Theories on the Solar System
Descartes and Bacon

Classwork Materials to Review:

Notes on:
- Pre-Conditions of the Renaissance
- Notes from Renaissance Powerpoint
- Machiavelli's Quotes
- Categorizing vocabulary of the Renaissance
- Chart on Protestant Religions
- Chart on Luther's Ideas vs. the Church's Ideas
- Appeal of Protestantism
- Causes and Effects of the Reformation
- Scientific Revolution

Vocabulary:

Pre-Conditions of the Renaissance
- Bubonic Plague
- Growth of Towns, Trade, and Wealth
Commercial Revolution
Guilds
Magna Carta
Great Schism
Estates System
Hundred Years War
Renaissance
Patron
Humanism
Secularism
Renaissance Man (L'uomo universale)
Perspective
Chiarrascurro
Stfumato
Classicism
Individualism
Sistine Chapel
The Pieta
The Last Supper
The Prince
Shakespeare
The Reformation
95 Theses
Printing Press
Protestants
Peace of Augsburg
Indulgences
Simony
Nepotism
The Index
Inquisition
Council of Trent
Anglicanism (Church of England)
Calvinism
Predestination
The Elect
Theocracy
Prebyterianism
Huguenots
Scientific Revolution
Heliocentric Model of Solar System
Geocentric Model of Solar System
Gravity

People To Know:

Medici Family
Leonardo Da Vinci
Michelangelo
Rafael
Donatello
The David
Machiavelli
Johannes Gutenberg
Martin Luther
John Calvin
John Knox
King Henry VIII
Copernicus
Newton
Galileo
Bacon
Descartes
Kepler

Short Answer Questions:

1. Why was economic prosperity a necessary pre-condition for the Renaissance?

2. How was the Renaissance a "rebirth"?

3. Choose one writer or artist from the Italian Renaissance and describe how Renaissance ideas influenced his or her work.

4. Explain why the development of printing is described as a “revolution.”

5. List and explain three ways the Catholic Church responded to the Protestant Reformation.

6. Explain why the theory of Copernicus was so strongly opposed by the Church and scholars.

7. What Renaissance ideas are reflected in Descartes’s statement “I think, therefore I am”?

8. How did the new scientific method threaten the Catholic Church?

9. What impact did the Scientific Revolution have on the perception of European society?

10. How did the Heliocentric model further promote the ideas of the Renaissance and the Protestant Reformation?

Exam Format:

Multiple Choice
Matching
Short Answer

HW 11/12 Descartes and Bacon

Read the writings of Bacon and Descartes distributed in class and answer the following questions on a separate sheet of paper. Answers should be submitted in blue or black ink or typed and printed.

Due: Fri. 11/13

Bacon On Suspicion:

1. Choose one of the following quotes and discuss how it reflects either the logic of the scientific method or the attitude of the Scientific Revolution

a. "Brave people are not hurt by their suspicions, for they have the courage to examine them to see if they are true or false. Cowardly people, however, are hurt by the suspicions, because they believe them too quickly.

b. "There is nothing that makes a man more suspicious than his own ignorance."

c. "The best way to handle suspicions is to assume that they are true, but to deal with them as if they are false."

Descartes Meditations

2. Choose one of the following quotes and discuss how it reflects either the logic of the scientific method or the attitude of the Scientific Revolution.

a. "I therefore made a serious effort to destroy all my former opinions to see if any survived my efforts"

b. "In searching for real and certain knowledge, an opinion which is doubtful is just as useless as one that is false."

c. "Just as a building falls if you destroy its foundation, so too, if I find a particular opinion doubtful, ever opinion built on it is doubtful too."

HW Chapter 22, Section 1

Read Chapter 22, Section 1 and take notes as you read.

Only OUTLINE notes will be accepted.

Due: 11/10

Extra Credit Assignment

Here is a link to Machiavelli's The Prince. Just as you did for homework, choose a section and write 5 tips for a prince or political leader according to Machiavelli's ideas.

The Prince- Click Here!