Your Renaissance Project
For your project on the Renaissance, you will pick a famous representative or event from the time and educate the class about this person or event or location or philosophy.
You will need to have a 2 1/2minute speech with 10 pictures for the body of your presentation (set the presentation to change the picture every 15 seconds). Besides the body, have an introductory slide, and ending slide, and a slide listing your sources.
You may choose from the following list or in consultation with the teacher, choose something off the list.
Leonardo DaVinci
Machiavelli
Shakespeare
Gutenberg
Michelangelo
Magna Carter
Catherine de Medicci (or another Mecicci)
Henry VIII
Elizabeth I
Descartes
The Borgias
Dante
Fibonacci
The Battle of Vienna
Isabella d’Este
Galileo Galilei
Isaac Newton
Christopher Marlowe
Nicolaus Copernicus
Jacques Cartier
Vasco de Gama
John Cabot
Johannes Kepler
Donatello
Marco Polo
Magellan
Sir Thomas More
Sir Walter Raleigh
Isaac Newton
Printing Press
Raphael
Martin Luther
The Inquisition
Saint Bartholomew's Massacre
The Reformation
Architecture
Developments in Navigation
Spanish Armada
Bloody Mary
Erasmus
Petrarch
Florence
Milan
Genoa
Humanism
Secularism
Artwork
The painting of the Last Supper (was that really St. Thomas?)
Don Quixote
Ulrich Zwingli
John Calvin
Thomas Hobbes
Another suggestion?
Things to focus on:
1. Why they are/it is important.
2. Impact on today’s society.
3. How they/it advanced science/technology/literature/government
We will come up with a rubric as a class. Things the teacher is thinking it should be marked on:
1. The information presented.
2. How it is presented.
3. Pictures used (do they match your speech).
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