Renaissance, Reformation, and the Age of Exploration:

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Renaissance, Reformation, and the Age of Exploration: by Mind Map: Renaissance, Reformation, and the Age of Exploration:

1. Audience: The audience for this Curriculum Design are 9th Graders taking World History.

2. Content Description: The students will be experiencing the way how thinking and culture changed dramatically during the 14th-17th Century. They will be looking at various Renaissance artists, thinkers, writers, and scientists. The next chapter details how the Church then breaks and is enveloped in the Protestant Reformation. Here they will see how the different types of religions came to be. Lastly, due to the Renaissance, people during this time period began thinking critically and rationally. Explorers went and tested the theory that the Earth was not round, trying to find new trade routes to Asia. Thus, the New World was discovered.

3. Course Goals

3.1. Explain how the Renaissance lead to ideologies that are still present in today's society.

3.2. Develop reasons and clear understandings of why the Protestant Reformation came out of the Church and it's hold over the people.

3.3. Grasp key facts such as the voyages of Columbus and Pizzaro all over the New World.

4. Transformation: The students will first see what the Renaissance is and how cultures began to change. After the Renaissance all the ideologies that have been developed have catapulted the European World into the Reformation. Lastly, due to those events, that catapults the world into the Age of Exploration. Students should be able to make the connection that the Church is constantly losing power throughout the 14th-15th Century.

5. #1. Renaissance

5.1. Students will be able to ANALYZE course documents detailing different Renaissance figures and their accomplishments.

5.2. Students will be able to UNDERSTAND the "isms" that were brought about from the Renaissance such as humanism, secularism, and individualism.

5.3. Students will be able to EXPLAIN the change and spread of culture during the Renaissance

6. #2. Reformation

6.1. Students will be able to DESCRIBE the reasons as why the Church was unfair to the poor, uneducated people in Europe.

6.2. Students will be able to EXPLAIN how the printing press was a crucial invention in spreading Martin Luther's 95 Theses.

6.3. Students will be able to UNDERSTAND why the Church became splintered and many other faiths emerged due to the Protestant Reformation.

7. #3. Age of Exploration

7.1. Students will be able to EXPLAIN how the Renaissance and Scientific Revolution paved the way for Christopher Columbus and many other voyages to sail to the New World.

7.2. Students will be able to APPLY concepts of religion from the Renaissance and Reformation and ANALYZE how Religion played a part in colonizations.

7.3. Students will be able to FORMULATE reasons and examples how the Renaissance and the Reformation have created the social climate that is present in today's society.

8. #4. Renaissance Artist, Thinkers, and Scientist

8.1. Students will be able to CREATE their own Biographical Posters of Renaissance Thinkers

8.2. Students will be able to APPLY the different isms that are specific to certain Renaissance figures

9. #5 Reformation Key Figures

9.1. Students will be able to EXPLAIN the different ideologies of each splinted off section of the Church.

9.2. Students will be able to UNDERSTAND the Church has still be affected by the Protestant Reformation.