Renaissance and Reformation

Renaissance and Reformation - Honors

Last Updated: 10/13/2009

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Renaissance and Reformation Honors Vocabulary List

Lectures

From Feudalism to the Commercial Revolution

Renaissance Italian Politics - Background for Machiavelli

Causes of the Protestant Reformation

The Protestant Reformation

The Catholic Counter-Reformation

Assignments

Due Thursday 10/1 - Map of Renaissance Italy (1500). Page 370 in the green book. Copy onto the map provided. Shade all the states separate colors of any scheme. Dot and lable the cities.

Due Friday 10/2 - Machiavelli reading and question set A (The Prince - Intro to Chapter 5)

Due Tuesday 10/6 or Wednesday 10/7 - Machiavelli reading and question set B (The Prince - Chapter 6 to Chapter 11)

Due Tuesday or Wednesday 10/6 or 10/7 - Extra Credit - Buy one of the following grammar books:
1. The Bedford Handbook by Diana Hacker
2. A Pocket Style Manual (Spiral-bound) by Diana Hacker

Due Thursday 10/8 - Do The Difficult Issue of the Duchy of Clafouti in groups

Due Monday 10/12 - Machiavelli reading and question set C (The Prince - Chapter 12 to Chapter 15)

Due Tuesday 10/13 - Group work restatements of Martin Luther's 95 Thesis selections (1-3, 27, 43, 50, 80, 94, 95).
Answer the following individual statements after the group work is finished.
1. What is Lugher's position on indulgences?
2. How does Luther believe Christians should behave and believe?
3. What is Luther's position on the Pope and on the Pope's behavior?
4. Do you disagree with anything Luther has to say? Explain in detail.

Due Thursday 10/15 - Machiavelli reading and question set D (The Prince - Chapter 16 to Chapter 21)

Due Friday 10/16 - “Reformation Ideas Spread” (pp.428-433, yellow book) reading notes for a grade

Due Monday 10/19 - Machiavelli reading and question set E (The Prince - Chapter 22 to the end)

Due Thursday 10/22 - Unit Test

Due Friday 10/23 - Extra credit for A Man for All Seasons:
1. What would M. have thought of More? Would M. see him as a fool?
2. Do you?
3. Was More right to die over an oath?

Due Tuesday 10/27 or Wednesday 10/28 - Essay on Machiavelli's The Prince