Unit 1

Renaissance: The Origins of a Western Worldview

Targets
Skill Builders

Chapter 4 Assessment

Now and Then

You will submit this assessment to your teacher on the next page. It will allow you to show that you understand the question for the chapter: How did the Renaissance promote the growth and exchange of ideas across Europe?

Choose one of the following two options.


Complete a Venn Diagram that examines the similarities and differences between the invention of the printing press during the Renaissance and the invention of the personal computer in modern times.

In your diagram, be sure to include the following information:

  1. the uses of the technology
  2. the effect of the technology on people
  3. the effect of the technology on business
  4. how people's worldviews changed because of the technology
  5. skills required to use the technology
  6. cost of the technology

Your Venn diagram must reflect your understanding of the similarities and differences in the world in Renaissance and modern times as well as your knowledge of how ideas can spread far beyond the place they originated.

Use the ReadWriteThink online Venn diagram or create your own.

Write a short composition in which you examine the similarities and differences between the invention of the printing press during the Renaissance and the invention of the personal computer in modern times.

In your composition, be sure to include the following information:

  1. the uses of the technology
  2. the effect of the technology on people
  3. the effect of the technology on business
  4. how people's worldviews changed because of the technology
  5. skills required to use the technology
  6. cost of the technology

Your composition must reflect your understanding of the similarities and differences in the world in Renaissance and modern times as well as your knowledge of how ideas can spread far beyond the place they originated.


Be sure you have addressed the following in your final product.

  • demonstrated understanding of both a modern and Renaissance worldview

  • demonstrated understanding of how ideas can spread far beyond their place of origin

 Remember to read the Chapter 4 Assessment Rubric no matter which option you choose.

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Submit your completed Chapter 4 Assessment on the next page.