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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt: European Renaissance and Reformation, 1300 1600 [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
Chapter 17 of a textbook on world history (36 pages). Includes a Renaissance timeline and map. Looks at the conditions that led to the Italian Renaissance, major artists, writers, the Northern Renaissance, the Elizabethan Age, the...
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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: American Literature: The Harlem Renaissance: Jean Toomer

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson focuses on the Harlem Renaissance poet Jean Toomer and his poem "Reapers." It features a short bio, a link to his poem, and lists of leveled questions to help analyze poetry: Surface level, Deeper level, Application level,...
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State Library of North Carolina

N Cpedia: Amy Rudersdorf: Sir Walter Raleigh: An English Renaissance Man

For Students 9th - 10th
Sir Walter Raleigh (Ralegh) is featured in this biography. Raleigh, born in the South of England in 1552, worked ceaselessly for the Queen launching expeditions to the New World in an effort to expand England's territory.
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West Valley College: The Italian High Renaissance

For Students 9th - 10th
The site from the West Valley College briefly surveys several pieces of artwork from the Italian High Renaissance including those from Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, and Raphael.
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African American Registry: Joel Augustus Rogers: Renaissance Man

For Students 9th - 10th
Read the biography of the Jamaican writer Joel Augustus Rogers.
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Steven Kreis, PhD

The History Guide: The New Intellectual Order: Man, Nature and Society

For Students 9th - 10th
A survey of the different philosophers of the Renaissance period. Includes a general look at Bruno, Montaigne, Descartes, Hobbes, and Locke with links to their biographies. The lecture tries to give the readers an insight into the...
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Ted: Ted Ed: Da Vinci's Vitruvian Man of Math

For Students 9th - 10th
What's so special about Leonardo da Vinci's Vitruvian Man? With arms outstretched, the man fills the irreconcilable spaces of a circle and a square- symbolizing the Renaissance-era belief in the mutable nature of humankind. James Earle...
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Rice University

Northern Renaissance: Its in the Details

For Students 9th - 10th
This website provides an outline that contains stylistic differences between Northern Renaissance painters and their Italian counterparts. Images are offered.
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Leonardo Da Vinci the Man & the Inventor

For Students 9th - 10th
An award winning site containing fantastic information on Leonardo as a man, an artist, and an inventor. You will find detailed analysis of his paintings, a section containing his drawings, articles on his life, designs for many machines...
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Shakespeare Resource Center: Shakespeare the Man

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Bio of Shakespeare which discusses the mystery of his life: the authorship of his works and lack of records for him. Other biographical links contained as well as page on his works.
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Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: American Passages: Southern Renaissance: Richard Wright

For Students 9th - 10th
Author Richard Wright is presented in this biography which draws upon his brutal honesty in describing life in the racially segregated south. See "Richard Wright Activities" for related artifacts and activities.
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Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: American Passages: Southern Renaissance: Eudora Welty

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Eudora Welty is identified in this brief biography as one of America's greatest southern writers. See "Eudora Welty Activities" for related artifacts and activities.
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Ducksters

Ducksters: Leonardo Da Vinci Biography for Kids: Artist, Genius, Inventor

For Students 3rd - 8th
This site gives a biography of the renaissance man of many talents including artist, science, and inventor known as Leonardo da Vinci.
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Internet History Sourcebooks Project

Fordham University: Modern History Sourcebook: Sir Walter Raleigh/guiana

For Students 9th - 10th
Fordham University offers Sir Walter Raleigh's text entitled "The Discovery of Guiana." It is very specific and descriptive.
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Museum of Science

Museum of Science, Boston: Leonardo Da Vinci: Scientist, Inventor, Artist

For Students 9th - 10th
Archived exhibition about Leonardo lets visitors explore his many dimensions, as scientist, inventor, and artist.
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Black Inventor Online Museum: Lewis Latimer

For Students 9th - 10th
The biography of the fascinating African-American inventor, Lewis Latimer. In addition to finding out about his development of the carbon filament for the incandescent lamp, you can read about his expertise in patent law, his association...
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Codex Leicester: Fossils/mountains, Moon/tides

For Students 9th - 10th
An excerpt from Leonardo da Vinci's Codex Leicester. Find out how this "Renaissance man" observed the Earth and learned more about tides, moons, and fossils in the mountains.
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University of the Arts, London: Paintings at Universal Leonardo

For Students 9th - 10th
Find a collection of 25 paintings by Renaissance-era master painters, including more than a dozen of Leonardo's most famous works. Paintings are accompanied by links to explanations of the artistic problems and puzzles that fascinated...
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British Library

British Library: Discovering Literature: Power, Politics, and Religion

For Students 9th - 10th
A murdered king, a homeless ruler, a man who sells his soul to the Devil: discover how Shakespeare and other Renaissance writers represented power and powerlessness.
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Steven Kreis, PhD

The History Guide: The Scientific Revolution, 1543 1600

For Students 9th - 10th
A look at how Copernicus, Descartes, and Newton change the thought process of man! Explore how these men contributed to the scientific revolution and how the revolution changed human knowledge. A biography of these scientists is linked...
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Georgia Humanities Council and the University of Georgia Press.

New Georgia Encyclopedia: Walter White

For Students 9th - 10th
An encyclopedia article about Walter White,a man influential in the quest for civil rights in the 20th century.
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Drawings of Leonardo

For Students 9th - 10th
A collection of high-quality scans of drawings by the Italian Renaissance master Leonardo da Vinci. Includes anatomical drawings, mechanical drawings, studies for sculpted works, and an assortment of oddities.
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: A Significant Influence: Describing an Important Teacher

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this project, young scholars write tributes to teachers who have made a profound difference in their lives then publish their work in a class collection.
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Black Past

Black Past: Gordon Parts

For Students 9th - 10th
Gordon Parks was a force in many fields, particularly photojournalism, as you will read in this encyclopedia entry.

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