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RENAISSANCE UNIT

OBJECTIVES AND SKILLS

• CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.11-12.2 Determine two or more themes or central ideas of a text and analyze their development over the course of the text, including how they interact and build on one another to produce a complex account; provide an objective summary of the text.

•  • CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.11-12.4 Determine

the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in the text, including figurative and connotative meanings; analyze the impact of specific word choices on meaning and tone, including words with multiple meanings or language that is particularly fresh, engaging, or beautiful. (Include Shakespeare as well as other authors.)

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• CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL12.7 Analyze multiple interpretations of a story, drama, or poem (e.g., recorded or live production of a play or recorded novel or poetry), evaluating how each version interprets the source text. (Include at least one play by Shakespeare and one play by an American dramatist.)

•  • CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W12.2 Write

informative • /explanatory texts to examine and

convey complex ideas and information clearly and accurately through the effective selection, organization, and analysis of content.

• Tone Symbolism• Point of View Imagery

HISTORICAL BACKGROUND

• 1485-1660• Renaissance means “re-birth” – renewed interest

in classical learning (writings of Ancient Greece and Rome)• Humanism – Intellectual movement – looked to

harmonize Classics and Christianity philosophically “What is a human being?”• Attaining virtue was most important

MORE HISTORICAL BACKGROUND

• Gutenburg press created• 1476 – Printing Press came to England• Church Reformation• 1530s England broke from Roman Catholic Church –

development of Prostestantism• Church of England established

RENAISSANCE POETRY CHARACTERISTICS

• Made new poems using themes & forms of old poems from the Classics• Aristocratic tone – unconcerned with the working

people• Wrote pastoral poems• Drew on personal experiences, but relied on

traditional poetic forms• Poems full of puns and extended metaphors

RENAISSANCE DRAMA

• Era of Shakespeare• Miracle and Mystery Plays based on Bible• Morality Plays taught morals