To do: Going over the printing press today

Short presentation- get out your notes! Document activity

Happy Friday!!!!!

Friday, November 16th

The Printing Press

Get your warm ups out Watch the YouTube video and write down 3

different Renaissances to the Renaissance that you see/hear

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CRX_mqpzdU&list=UUAiABuhVSMZJMqyv4Ur5XqA&index=18&feature=plcp

Warm Up

Warm Up packets are DUE today!!!!!

Collect:

Students will analyze the importance that the

printing press had on literature, literacy and religion.

Learning Goal

The Invention That Changed The World!

The Printing Press

Chinese invention of block

printing helped spread Renaissance ideas throughout Europe

The Old Way of Printing

Monks used to

hand-write Bibles by hand

Much room for error If messed up, would

have to start the whole page over again

Not many books were in print

During the 13th century,

European printers began using block printing to create whole pages to bind into books

This process was too slow John Gutenberg

reinvented moveable type around 1440 and made it more practical

The New Way

Each block was carved by hand with each character in position which meant a completely new carved block for each page

Gutenberg later

invented a printing press- a machine that presses paper against a full tray of inked moveable type

Enabled a printer to produce hundreds of copies, all exactly alike

Gutenberg’s Printing Press

The invention of movable type was made from a durable metal that could be cast from a mold rather than hand-carved from wood

Vernacular- The

language or dialect spoken by the ordinary people in a particular country or region.

Writing in vernacular languages increased because those who didn’t have “classical” education could read in their own language

Vernacular

The first full-size

book printed with moveable type was the bible- known as the Gutenberg Bible, printed in 1455

Had a revolutionary impact on society

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Gutenberg Bible

Printers printed the Bible

in vernacular, allowing more people to read it

People started to interpret the bible for themselves and became more critical of priests behavior

This leads to demands for religious reform

Results: Vernacular and the Bible

For the first time, books were cheap enough that people could buy them

By 1500, presses in about 250 cities had printed between 9 and 10 million books!

At first, just religious books were printed, then travel books and medical manuals were printed

Availability of books encouraged people to read causing a spike in literacy

Effects

People all over the land were exclaiming….

Examine each document carefully to discover how

printing changed one aspect of the world. Record your analysis of each document on the chart. Title- enter the name of the document Author- what do you know about them? Year- find this in the document Type- Primary or secondary source? What is the

difference? Main Idea- summarize what it is saying Significance- Why is this important?

Activity: Directions Part I

Due Tomorrow! Do not worry about part II until Monday

Directions Part II