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What Was the Renaissance Worldview?

Determine the most significant change in worldview brought about by the Renaissance by comparing the implicit worldviews in paired examples of Medieval and Renaissance creative works; e.g., paintings, sculpture, architecture and music.


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Specific Outcomes

This critical challenge may address these outcomes:

Specific Outcome 8.2.2 - Students will demonstrate a willingness to consider differing beliefs, values and worldviews (C, I)
Specific Outcome 8.2.4.1 - What was the Renaissance? (TCC, LPP)
Specific Outcome 8.S.1.1 - Students will analyze the validity of information based on context, bias, source, objectivity, evidence and reliability to broaden understanding of a topic or an issue
Specific Outcome 8.S.1.2 - Students will evaluate ideas, information and positions from multiple perspectives
Specific Outcome 8.S.1.4 - Students will re-evaluate personal opinions to broaden understanding of a topic or an issue
Specific Outcome 8.S.1.5 - Students will generate creative ideas and strategies in individual and group activities
Specific Outcome 8.S.2.2 - Students will use historical and community resources to organize the sequence of historical events
Specific Outcome 8.S.2.3 - Students will analyze the historical contexts of key events of a given time period
Specific Outcome 8.S.3.6 - Students will access and operate multimedia applications and technologies from stand-alone and online sources; e.g., GIS
Specific Outcome 8.S.7.3 - Students will draw conclusions based upon research and evidence
Specific Outcome 8.S.9.1 - Students will examine techniques used to enhance the authority and authenticity of media messages
Specific Outcome 8.S.9.2 - Students will examine the values, lifestyles and points of view represented in a media message
C Citizenship
ER Economics and Resources
CC Culture and Community
I Identity
LPP The Land: Places and People
GC Global Connections
TCC Time, Continuity and Change
PADM Power, Authority, and Decision Making
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