Social Studies 8 – Social Studies

The Great Artists – Renaissance

January 10, 2021 mrsvangelista

Middle Ages vs Renaissance Art

In the middle ages, art was mostly focused on religious themes – scenes from the Bible and depictions of Jesus and saints. In the Renaissance there was a shift from religious themes to art that depicted everyday life.

Visually, there were many differences between Middle Age and Renaissance art. In the Middle Ages, artists were unable to bring paintings to life and make them appear realistic – they had a flat, 2 dimensional appearance. This is because the concepts of proportion and perspective had not yet been developed.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmHTQsxxkPk&t=1453s

Proportion

In the 13th-14th century, a Florentine artist, Giotto di Bondone, developed the rule of proportion in painting. Proportion means that everything in a painting is to scale – people are the right size compared to other objects in a painting.

Perspective

In 1415, Filippo Brunelleschi created the first known perspective drawing/painting. Perspective allows artists to add depth to a picture, giving the appearance of distance on a flat surface.

Renaissance Artists: Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo

Leonardo da Vinci

Leonardo da Vinci was the ideal Renaissance Man – he was a skilled artist, inventor, engineer, and scientist. While training as an apprentice, he became unusually observant of the natural world. da Vinci learned about the natural world through direct observation and experiment. Leonardo da Vinci is credited with being the first to design a helicopter, tank, and a flying machine.

He planned to write a complete textbook on human anatomy, but never finished. All of his notebooks survived and are filled with detailed notes and drawings. However, da Vinci was an eccentric and wrote all of his notes backwards to prevent people from reading his notebooks.

Video on Leonardo: https://www.biography.com/videos/leonardo-da-vinci-mini-biography-14066755621

Michelangelo

Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonaroti Simoni was born in 1475. He was first a sculptor but he is most famous for his fresco paintings on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in Rome. A fresco is a type of painting done on fresh plaster placed on walls and ceilings.

Michelangelo began his apprenticeship at the age of 13. By 25, Michelangelo had made a name for himself as a tallented sculptor. Some of his famous works include the Pieta (1499) and the David (1504).

Video on Michelangelo: https://www.biography.com/videos/michelangelo-mini-biography-2165763149

Renaissance Thought – Humanism

Unlike medieval artists, Renaissance artists were humanists – people concerned with the goals of
human beings, not spiritual matters (hence the name, “humanism”)

Kahoot: https://create.kahoot.it/share/renaissance-italy-quiz/11386ea5-a45c-43ad-832e-e60887159a84

https://www.livescience.com/55028-what-makes-a-genius.html

The Bubonic Plague Webquest

December 13, 2020 mrsvangelista

The Plague WebQuest

In this activity you will explore the origins of the Black Death and how it spread, the symptoms of the plague, treatments offered during the Late Middle Ages, and the overall impacts of the Black Death on Europe.

Before you get started, open a new Word document. You will record your responses to each of the activities below on your Word doc. when you are finished, submit your document on your BLOG and call it The Plague Webquest (click on Add Media to upload the word document).

Part 1 – What is a “Plague”?

Go to the CDC (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.website and answer these questions:

1) What is the plague? Write a definition for this disease in your own words.

2) How do you get infected with the plague virus? Write a description of the ways you can be infected, in your own words.

Part 2 – Where did it start?

Go to this PBS (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.website and answer this question:

1) Where did the plague start and how/where did it spread? Write out the locations the plague spread to in chronological order.

Part 3 – Reactions to the Plague

Go to Eyewitness (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.History and read the third paragraph (Varying reactions to the disaster) then, answer this question:

1) Make a list of the different ways people of the Middle Ages reacted to news of the plague. Aim for 3-4 different reactions.

Part 4 – Symptoms and Treatment

Go to this page to read about symptoms (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. and this page to read about treatments (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.of the plague, then answer these questions:

1) Summarize the symptoms of the plague by identifying the four types of plague and their associated symptoms.

2) Summarize the treatments available during the Middle Ages- how successful do you think these treatments were?

Part 5 – Reducing the Threat

Three ways to reduce the threat of plague are: sanitation, insecticide, and antibiotics. Unfortunately, people in the Middle Ages did not have these luxuries. People didn’t know what caused the plague or how to properly treat it and Doctors had to try very hard not to become infected themselves. How did Doctors protect themselves? Did it work?

Part 6

STOP and UPLOAD the WORD DOCUMENT TO YOUR BLOG. Answer the following question as closure or exit slip to this activity on your BLOG!

Why study the Plague?

(MS WORD DOCUMENT FROM WEBQUEST)

Watch this TedEd video, then write a response on your Blog. Why is it important for us to study the causes and impacts of diseases that happened in the past?

Other videos if you are interesting in the Science behind it.

https://www.pbs.org/video/gross-science-what-black-plague/