Topic of the Week: The Renaissance
"Renaissance," French for "rebirth," perfectly describes the intellectual and economic changes that occurred in Europe from the fourteenth through the sixteenth centuries.
Spotlight Site of the Week!
The Renaissance Connection
With the simple click of a mouse button, travel 500 years into the past to discover many Renaissance innovations.
http://www.renaissanceconnection.org
Additional Sites:
- Renaissance, The Elizabethan World
More than 88 pages of insight into everyday life in Tudor England - food, occupations, games, pastimes, religion, fashion, manners, attitudes, and education.
http://elizabethan.org/ - Sixteenth Century Renaissance English Literature (1485-1603)
Literary works in sixteenth-century England were rarely if ever created in isolation from other currents in the social and cultural world.
http://www.luminarium.org/renlit/ - Renaissance
Topics covered: Out of the Middle Ages; Exploration and Trade; Printing and Thinking; Symmetry, Shape, Size; Focus on Florence.
http://www.learner.org/exhibits/renaissance/ - Lesson Ideas: Renaissance
Activity and worksheets designed to provide support material for the themed lesson ideas.
http://www.schools.net.au/edu/lesson_ideas/renaissance/renaissance_index.html - Renaissance Music Online Lesson
Features four lessons with corresponding questions and activities.
http://www.musicatschool.co.uk/lessons_online/ren_online/renaissance_music.htm
Judi's Corner
This week features a world-wide hub of front page news:
Newseum: Today's Front Pages
http://www.newseum.org/todaysfrontpages/
Read today's newspaper headlines from more than 417 front pages in 37 countries.
Spotlight Class of the Week!
Mrs. Oak's ELA Class
North Ridge Middle School
North Richland Hills, Texas
Our Other Web Sites
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That's all for this week! "Remember...the Web is a terrible thing to waste!"