Today in World History students worked on a Map Challenge for our unit on The Renaissance. This map and challenge questions are due on Friday. Thursday students will answer some questions from the text on the circumstances that caused the Renaissance to occur and on Friday students will take Cornell notes on a PowerPoint presentation of the origins of the Renaissance. Monday students will begin to learn about important figures from this period and the works that made them famous.

Vocabulary words for this unit:

Elizabethan Age
Humanism
Patron
Printing Press
Renaissance
Republic
Secular
Silk Road
Vernacular