Friday, March 27, 2009

Renaissance Biography Project

In this project you will take time to research and learn more about an individual from the Renaissance, Reformation, or Scientific Revolution. Choose an individual from the attached list and use the internet, library, and your textbook to find out more about them. To show your knowledge complete either a PowerPoint presentation or poster about your chosen individual including the following information.

To Include:
• Name,
• Birth and death dates
• Where they are from
• Major events of their lives
• Explanation of their importance to their time period (Renaissance, Reformation, or Scientific Revolution)

An example of excellent work would be a project that is completed neatly with all of the required information included. An excellent project would also be free from grammatical and spelling errors and be written in your own words (no plagiarism!). An excellent project would also include appropriate photos or illustrations.


Famous People of the Renaissance, Reformation, and Scientific Revolution

• Cosimo I de' Medici
• Lorenzo de' Medici (also known as Lorenzo il Magnifico)
• Catherine de' Medici
• Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor and King of Spain
• Elizabeth I of England
• Ferdinand of Aragon
• Henri IV of France
• Henry VIII of England
• Henry the Navigator of Portugal
• Isabella of Castile
• Mary, Queen of Scots
• Phillip II of Spain
• Pope Leo X
• Martin Luther
• Tomás de Torquemada
• Giovanni Boccaccio
• Baldassare Castiglione
• Miguel de Cervantes
• Erasmus
• Ben Jonson
• Niccolò Machiavelli
• Christopher Marlowe
• John Milton
• Michel de Montaigne
• Thomas More
• Petrarch, Francesco Petrarca
• François Rabelais
• William Shakespeare
• Saint Teresa of Ávila
• Lorenzo Valla
• Albrecht Dürer.
• Leon Battista Alberti
• Hieronymus Bosch
• Sandro Botticelli
• Pieter Brueghel the Elder
• Filippo Brunelleschi
• Donatello
• Albrecht Dürer
• Hans Dürer
• Jean Fouquet
• Michelangelo
• Raphael, Raffaello Sanzio
• Leonardo da Vinci
• Jan van Eyck
• Titian
• Scientists
• Tycho Brahe
• Benedetto Castelli
• Copernicus
• Galileo Galilei
• Johannes Kepler
• Leonardo Da Vinci
• Johannes Kepler
• Guidobaldo del Monte
• John Napier
• Pedro Nunes
• William Oughtred
• Luca Pacioli
• Robert Recorde
• Adam Ries
• Niccolò Fontana Tartaglia
• Francis Bacon
• Nicolaus Copernicus
• Nicholas of Cusa
• Niccolò Machiavelli
• Pico della Mirandola
• Michel de Montaigne
• Jacques Cartier
• Samuel de Champlain
• Christopher Columbus
• Hernán Cortés
• Francis Drake
• Vasco da Gama
• Ferdinand Magellan
• Francisco Pizarro
• Walter Raleigh

Wednesday, March 11, 2009

First Post

Welcome to Mrs. Wray's Classroom! This is a first post - just testing...