Personal Journal URL's

RENAISSANCE

Botticelli, Sandro
http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/botticelli
The Guide to the Renaissance
http://www.geocities.com/capecanaveral/launchpad/9983/renaissance.html
Renaissance Personalities Student Home Page
http://www.yesnet.yk.ca/schools/projects/renaissance
Biographies of the Renaissance
http://www.42explore2.com/renaissance2.htm
People of the Middle Ages and Renaissance
http://www.midrealm.org/mkyouth/links/peopleren.htm
Leonardo and the Engineers of the Renaissance
http://brunelleschi.imss.fi.it/ingrin/index.html
Renaissance
http://www.learner.org/exhibits/renaissance/middleages.html

EXPLORATION

Age of Exploration
http://www.mariner.org/educationalad/ageofex
Bards, Courtiers, Courtesans, and Troubadors
http://www.caradorian.com/library/tomes/professions/profbard.html
Encompassing the Globe -- Portugal and the World in the 16th and 17th Centuries
http://www.asia.si.edu/EncompassingtheGlobe/default.htm
European Voyages of Exploration
http://www.ucalgary.ca/applied_history/tutor/eurvoya
John Cabot
http://www.heritage.nf.ca/exploration/cabot.html

SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION

Science and the Renaissance
http://www.scienceandyou.org/articles/ess_15.shtml
Art of Renaissance Science http://www.mcm.edu/academic/galileo/ars/arshtml/arstoc.html
The Telescope http://galileo.rice.edu/science.html/sci/instruments/sci/instruments/telescope.html
Tycho Brahe and Johannes Kepler http://www.scienceandyou.org/articles/ess_21.shtml
The Galileo Project
http://galileo.rice.edu

ENLIGHTENMENT

European Enlightenment: René Descartes
http://www.wsu.edu/~dee/ENLIGHT/DESCARTE.HTM
The Enlightenment (1600-1790) http://www.sparknotes.com/history/european/enlightenment
The European Enlightenment
http://www.wsu.edu/~dee/ENLIGHT/ABSOLUTE.HTM
The Sixteenth Century
http://www.lepg.org/sixteen.htm

Seven Daughters and Seven Sons/Mulan Connection

Seven Daughters and Seven Sons
and
Mulan

Big Understanding:

Prescribed gender roles and restrictions can limit individual potential.

Essential Questions:

1. Why do many religions/belief systems have clearly defined gender roles?
2. When, if ever, is it appropriate that someone defy gender roles?

Novel/Movie Connection:
1. What are the cultural attitudes toward marriage in the novel, Seven Daughters and Seven Sons, and the movie, Mulan?
2. How is education for girls treated in the novel as well as the movie?