Nicolaus Coperemicus

Lived (Years he was alive)

1473 to 1543

Place (Where he was from)

Torun, Poland

Personality and Training

• Creative and Free thinking
• Studied at the University of Kraow
• Studied Medicine, law and astronomy in Italy

Talents and Achievements

• Was good at observations
• Wrote about what he really saw not just what he was supposed to see
• Introduced the idea that the Earth and the other plane revolved around the sun

Andreas Vesalius

lived (Years he was alive)

1514 to 1564

Place (Where he was from)

Brussels, Belgium

Personality and Training

• Hard Working
• Curious
• Earned a Medical Degree

Talents and Achievements

• Good Observer and Thinker
• Studied dead human bodies making many discoveries like the 4 chambers of the human heart
• Wrote the first modern medical textbook

I will be collecting your text books tomorrow.  Bring them to class with you.

Michelangelo

Lived (Years he was alive)

1475 to 1564

Place (Where he was from)

Florance, Italy

Personality and Training

• Ambitious
• religious
• Had a temper
• Studies Art particularly painting and sculptur

Talents and Achievements

• Talented painter and Sculptor
• Expressive
• His sculptures such as the Pieta, David, and Moses were life like
• His masterpiece was the celling of the Sistine Chapel

Titan

Lived (Years he was alive)

1488 to 1576

Place (Where he was from)

The Italian Alps

Personality and Training

• Perswasive
• Generous
• Studied fresco painting (painting on walls)

Talents and Achievements

• Known for his use of color
• paintings seemed to come alive
• painted bible stories, myths, and famous people
• His techniques are copied toda

Durer

Lived (Years he was alive)

1471 - 15 28

Place (Where he was from)

Nuremberg, Germany

Personality and Training

• Popular and “In”
• Intellectual
• Studied Gold smithing
• Studied Painting, printmaking, math, Latin, Classical Lit., and sculpture
• Traveled
• Met Humanist

Talents and Achievements

• blended German and Italian painting style
• Made engravings
• Painted religious figures, self portraits, court portraits

imagine that you were going to give an award to the most important person who lived in the 20th century.  What criteria would you use to select this person?  Who would you choose.  Rosa Parks?  Nelson Mandela?  Walt Disney?  Your parents?  Martin Luther King Jr.?  Winston Churchill?  Cesar Chavez?

Pick any one of these, or someone else, and list three of their major accomplishments  and/or major events of their life.

In the preview 30 you are asked to do this, and to illustrate their accomplishments.

We are going to look at the lives of ten important people and then we are going to asses their place in history.

In class today we did the pre reading questions for chapter 30.

Pre-Reading Questions

For Home Work I assigned essential questions #3 and 4.

This week we will be looking at ten people who had a major impact on world history during the Renaissance.

In class today we will be working on our key terms for chapter 30.

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Budget Vocabulary Matrix

chapter-30-standard-guide

Due to the seventh grade field trip this wee we had the same agenda today as yesterday.  Most of you missed one day or the other.   By Wenseday you must complete the pre-reading questions, and have at least 5 key terms done.

Florance Epitomizes the Renaissance. It was the home of inventors, architects, painters, and merchants.

This week we will will be examining this city in more detail.

In class today we did the pre-reading questions for chapter 29.

We also did the key terms for chapter 29.

I assigned essential question # 1 for home work.

Pre-Reading Questions

Budget Vocabulary Matrix

We are testing this week.  There will not be any posts to the website this week.

We are going to spent the next two days we are going to watch a movie about Michelangelo’s painting of the Sistine Chapel ceiling for Julius II.