Unit 1

Renaissance: The Origins of a Western Worldview

Skill Check

Practice Your Skills: Consider and Analyze

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Now is the time to make use of some of your Social Studies skills.

The questions for "Considering Various Points of View" and "Analyzing Images" are included on the Reading/Study Guide Unit 1: Chapter 1, Lesson 2 document.

1. Considering Various Points of View
• Page 20 of the textbook contains writings about the manorial system from two points of view: one that is very negative about the feudal system and the other that supports it.
  
  
• Read the page and compare the points of view.
  
  
• Answer the following question in your Reading/Study Guide.
  
  
• Which writer is closer to your point of view? Why?


2. Analyzing Images
• Page 21 of the textbook is about the bias that appears in almost any image.
  
  
• Read page 21 and study the picture.
  
  
• Think about who the painting was produced for and the purpose of the painting (to entertain, to inform, to persuade).
  
  
• Answer the following question in your Reading/Study Guide.
  
  
• What bias do you see in the painting?


3. When you have completed your Reading/Study Guide, proceed to the next page.