Note Taking Verbatim is the least effective way to take notes DO NOT just copy word for word what is on the slides or in the book. THINK about what is said and summarize it Notes should be considered a work in progress NOTES should be reviewed after class and checked for clarity Notes should be used as study guides for tests The more notes that are taken, the better. If while taking notes you have a thought or connection to other texts, write it down!
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Note TakingVerbatim is the least effective way to take notes
DO NOT just copy word for word what is on the slides or in the book.
THINK about what is said and summarize it
Notes should be considered a work in progress
NOTES should be reviewed after class and checked for clarity
Notes should be used as study guides for tests
The more notes that are taken, the better.If while taking notes you have a thought or connection to other texts, write it down!
Note Taking Starting Questions
What is being defined in the presentation?
To which general category does each item introduced belong?
What characteristics does the speaker present that separate the item from other things in this general category?
What evidence (examples or explanations) does the speaker present that supports the evidence?
What other advice to you have for note taking?
The Renaissance1485- 1660
Leaving the Middle Ages
What was the typical life of most people in the Middle Ages?
What is the Renaissance?
Means “Rebirth”
Originally started in Italy
Renaissance ideas soon spread beyond Italy to northern Europe by means of trade, travel, and printed material, influencing the art and ideas of the north.
A Book RevolutionPrinting Press
Mid-1400s, Johannes Gutenberg cast letters of alphabet on metal plates, locked metal plates on wooden press; perfected movable type printing
Result, one of most dramatic upheavals world has ever known
Printed word available to more people and prompted more people to read
A Book Revolution
Gutenberg’s first publication, 1,282-page Bible
Printers soon appeared in other cities, made books quickly, inexpensively
Explosion of printed material quickly spread Renaissance ideas
Philosophers and Writers
Northern humanists expressed their own ideas
Combined interests of theology, fiction and history
Created philosophical works, novels, dramas, and poems
HumanismDeveloped during the fourteenth and the beginning of the fifteenth centuries,
As a response to the challenge of Mediæval scholastic education, emphasizing practical, pre-professional and -scientific studies.
Scholasticism focused on preparing men to be doctors, lawyers or professional theologians, and was taught from approved textbooks in logic, natural philosophy, medicine, law and theology
Humanists persuaded others to act virtuous
Now known as humanities (history, English, art, poetry, rhetoric, etc.)
Desiderius Erasmus
Combined Christian ideas, humanism
Wrote of pure, simple Christian life, educating children
Fanned flames of discontent
Roman Catholic Church censored
“If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.”
Sir Thomas MoreMore’s best-known work, Utopia, contains criticisms of English government, society
He described a world where there is freedom and harmony between individuals and Kings
He believed society should be based on reason and with reason/ conversation there should not be war or conflict
Christene de PizanItalian-born writer focused on role of women in society
Married at 15 and widowed 10 years later
Grew up in French court of Charles V; turned to writing when widowed
Championed equality, education for women
Europe’s first professional writer – 41 complete works in her lifetime
ShakespeareMany believe English playwright William Shakespeare greatest writer
Plots not original, but treatments of them masterful
Drew inspiration from ancient, contemporary literature
Knowledge of natural science, humanist topics expressed in plays
Use of language, choice of themes made plays appealing even to uneducated
Plays helped spread ideas of Renaissance to mass audience
Focused on lives of realistic characters, unlike morality plays
By Shakespeare’s death, 1616, London scene of thriving theatre district
ArtistsLike literary counterparts, northern European artists influenced by Italian Renaissance
Adopted Italian techniques
Italian artists tried to capture beauty of Greek, Roman gods in paintings
Northern artists and Italian Artists both interested in Christian Art (as hired by Pope or English Crown)
• Northern artists tried to depict people as they really were
