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Great City-states of the Renaissance ActivityGreat City-states of the Renaissance Activity
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Alberta Learning
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Grade
6th - 10th
Subjects
Social Studies & History
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Year
2011
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Great City-states of the Renaissance

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  • Comparing City-states of the Renaissance
  • Student Self-reflection: Providing Evidence
  • Ranking City-states of the Renaissance
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Acting as journalists on a team to determine the most influential city-state of Renaissance Italy, your young historians will research, discuss, and compare the rise of Venice, Florence, and Genoa, and their influence in shaping a Renaissance worldview. This resource is most valuable for its varied and detailed additional materials guiding students through research and assessing findings!

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CCSS: Adaptable

Concepts

venice

Additional Tags

italian city-state, medici, venice, florence, social studies

Pros

  • Additional materials (i.e. rubric, compare/contrast graphic organizer, self-reflection) are well-designed and relevant

Cons

  • Main activity guidelines need to be supplemented with instruction on how to identify economic, political, artistic, etc. features of each city-state through research

Common Core

SL.6.1.a SL.6.4 SL.7.1.a SL.7.4 SL.8.1.a SL.8.4 SL.9-10.1.a SL.9-10.4

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