Unit 1

Renaissance: The Origins of a Western Worldview

Activity

1. Download the document, Reading/Study Guide Unit 1: Chapter 3, Lesson 3.
   Please save your work to a file on your desktop so you will have a copy to refer back to.


2. Click on one of the links provided to download the document.
• You will then be able to view the Reading/Study Guide Unit 1: Chapter 3, Lesson 3 worksheet.




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3. Read pages 70 and 71 as well as "Skill Power" on page 72 in your textbook.
• Answer the following question in your Reading/Study Guide.
  
  
• How do the paintings featured on the pages reflect humanist beliefs?


4. Read "Architecture" on page 72 of your textbook. (Be sure to consider the question asked in "Think it through").


5. Read "Exploring Sources" on page 73 of your textbook.
• Answer the following question in your Reading/Study Guide.
  
  
• How were Renaissance architects influenced by classical architecture?


6. Read "Sculpture" on pages 73 and 74, and "Literature" on pages 75 and 76 of the textbook.
• Answer the following question in your Reading/Study Guide.
  
  
• How did Renaissance humanism encourage writers to focus on thoughts and emotions and to write in their own languages so everyone could enjoy their works?


7. When you are finished, submit your completed Reading/Study Guide on the next page.