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Ducksters

Ducksters: Renaissance for Kids: Timeline

For Students 1st - 9th
Kids learn about the timeline of the European Renaissance including proto, early, and high Renaissance periods. Major events.
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Ducksters

Ducksters: Renaissance for Kids: Daily Life

For Students 1st - 9th
Kids learn about the daily life during the Renaissance including housing, schools, shopping, food, clothing, and entertainment.
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Ducksters

Ducksters: Quiz: Daily Life in the Renaissance

For Students 1st - 9th
History Questions: Daily Life in the Renaissance Quiz, Test, and WebQuest
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Ducksters

Ducksters: Renaissance for Kids: Medici Family

For Students 1st - 9th
Kids learn about the Medici Family of the Renaissance. They were leaders of the city of Florence and supporters of the arts and humanism.
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Ducksters

Ducksters: Renaissance for Kids: Age of Exploration and Discovery

For Students 1st - 9th
Kids learn about the Age of Exploration and Discovery of the European Renaissance including Henry the Navigator, Columbus, Portugal, and Spain.
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Ducksters

Ducksters: Renaissance for Kids: Elizabethan Era

For Students 1st - 9th
Kids learn about the Elizabethan Era including the English Renaissance, theatre, arts, clothing, fashion, and fun facts.
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Ducksters

Ducksters: Word Search: Renaissance

For Students 9th - 10th
A fun word search game with terms about the Renaissance. Play online or print out a version for use in class or at home.
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Ducksters

Ducksters: History: Renaissance for Kids

For Students 1st - 9th Standards
Kids learn about the events and timeline of the European Renaissance in history on this site. Learn about the rebirth in science, art, philosophy, and literature.
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Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: Renaissance: Florentine Art and Architecture

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from Learner.org illustrates the inner and outer workings of Renaissance art and architecture in the Italian city of Florence. It also provides an example by noting some works by Michelangelo and Botticelli.
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Siteseen

Siteseen: American Historama: The Harlem Renaissance

For Students 9th - 10th
Provides an overview and detailed facts about the Harlem Renaissance, the flowering of African-American culture.
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Ducksters

Ducksters: Crossword Puzzle Game for Kids: Renaissance

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
An interactive crossword puzzle game about Renaissance. Students can learn about the history and have fun at the same time.
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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: English Renaissance: The Sheppard and Nymph [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a PDF of the two poems: "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love" by Christopher Marlow and "The Nymph's Reply to the Sheppard" by Sir Walter Raliegh.
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Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: American Passages: Southern Renaissance: Thomas Wolfe

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Thomas Wolfe is presented in this brief biography, highlighting his writings which exemplified the American culture of the 1920's-1930's. Click on "Thomas Wolfe Activities" for related resources.
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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: English Renaissance: Christopher Marlowe

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson focuses on Christoper Marlowe and his works including his famous sonnet "The Passionate Shepherd to his Love." This poem and "A Nymph's Reply" are provided in both text from audio forms. Links to Marlowe's biography and a...
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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: English Renaissance: Sonnets

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson focuses on the sonnet including the definition, the history, the types of, and meters. It features the three types of sonnets: Italian/Petrarchan Sonnet, English/Shakespearean Sonnet, and Spenserian Sonnet. It describes the...
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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: English Renaissance: English Pertrarchan Sonnets

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson focuses on English Pertrarchan sonnets which were translated into English by Sir Thomas Wyatt who then created his own poetry in the Pertrarchan form. It features Wyatt's poems "They Flee from Me" (in text and audio) and...
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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: English Renaissance: Edmund Spenser: Sonnets

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson focuses on Edmund Spenser and his sonnets. It features two of his sonnets: Sonnet 30 and Sonnet 75, known as the Fire and Ice poems and a worksheet for them. It also offers links to Spenser's biography, Amoretti and...
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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: English Renaissance: Shakespeare: Sonnets

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson focuses on Shakespeare's sonnets; it features three sonnets: Sonnet 29, 116, and 130 and provides links to a modern paraphrase/analysis of each. It also offers an audio of Alan Rickman reading Sonnet 130. Students are to...
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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: English Renaissance: John Donne

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson focuses on John Donne and his sonnets. It features three of his sonnets: Holy Sonnet VII: "At the Round Earth's Imagin'd Corners," Holy Sonnet X: "Death, Be Not Proud," and "The Bait," which is a reply to Christopher...
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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: English Renaissance: Carpe Diem Poetry

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson focuses on the Carpe Diem ("Seize the day") poets Andrew Marvell and Robert Herrick. It features links to biographies of each of these poets, the poem "To His Coy Mistress" by Andrew Marvell and the poem "To the Virgins, to...
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University of Pennsylvania

English Renaissance in Context: "Merchant of Venice"

For Students 9th - 10th
Fantastic, multimedia introduction to Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice. Rich graphics make the intellectual material more accessable. Sections discuss the anti-semitism and perception of usury during Shakespeare's time, as well as the...
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University of Pennsylvania

English Renaissance in Context: King Lear

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Multimedia resource that examines the historical sources Shakespeare used when writing King Lear. Using primary source material, excerpts from the play are compared to its source documents. Questions are scattered among the material to...
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Bartleby

Bartleby.com: Englishmen and the Classical Renaissance: John Colet

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Detailed biography of John Colet, a famous scholar during the Reformation whose ideas influenced the movements of his day.
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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning:american Literature: The Harlem Renaissance: Langston Hughes

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson focuses on Langston Hughes and two of him poems: "Theme for English B" and "I, Too." It provides links to the two poems including an audio version of "I, Too" and a handout worksheet for "Theme for English B." It asks student...

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