Independent Study: American Revolution Assignment

If you are a Blitz student or cannot work with a group due to excessive absences or some other reason you are to complete a project of your own to meet the requirements for this part of the class.

Using the internet links and your textbook answer the following essential questions about the American Revolution.

Essential Questions:

1. What is a Revolution?
2. What were the major causes of the American Revolution?
3. When and where did the American Revolution begin?
4. What were the major battles of the American Revolution?
5. When and where did the American Revolution end?
6. What were the results of the American Revolution?
a. What were the Articles of Confederation and what were their limitations?
b. What was the Constitution?

After you have answered the questions create a PowerPoint presentation addressing each of these Essential Questions. If you do not have access to a computer you may complete the project as a poster.

Web Links for Renaissance Project Research

Renaissance Web Links

http://www.historyteacher.net/APEuroCourse/WebLinks/WebLinks-Renaissance.html (huge source of great info)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renaissance (Wikipedia article - good background info – but you shouldn’t rely on Wikipedia for a real source)

http://history-world.org/renaissance.htm

http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/glo/renaissance/

Reformation Web Links

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protestant_Reformation

http://www.lepg.org/religion.htm

https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/refo/hd_refo.htm (includes great art resources and historical resources are organized very well and are easily accessable)

http://www.wsu.edu/~dee/REFORM/LUTHER.HTM

http://history-world.org/reformation.htm

The Scientific Revolution

http://wsu.edu/~dee/ENLIGHT/SCIREV.HTM

http://www.clas.ufl.edu/users/rhatch/pages/03-Sci-Rev/SCI-REV-Home/

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook09.html

http://www.historyguide.org/earlymod/lecture10c.html

http://mars.wnec.edu/~grempel/courses/wc2/lectures/scientificrev.html

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