Part I:
Directions for Biographical Poem
1. Your mission is to write a biographical poem that describes the characteristics and accomplishments of a prominent Renaissance figure so precisely that the reader can identify the Renaissance figure before she or he reads the last line. I will assign you a specific figure.
2. To write the biographical poem, follow the format:
Line 1: Four adjectives describing the person
Line 2:Relative (Son, daughter, husband, wife) of . . .
Line 3: Resident of (city and/or country)
Line 4: Who lived from (year to year)
Line 5: Who studied . . .
Line 6: Whose talents included . . .
Line 7: Who believed . . .
Line 8: Who is remembered for . . .
Line 9: First and Last name
3. The poem should be written neatly in ink or typed.
Example:
Honest, tall, courageous, thin
Husband of Mary and son of illiterate parents
Resident of Washington D.C.
Who lived from 1809 to 1865
Who on his own studied grammar, mathematics and law
Whose talents included leadership, good judgment, and speaking
Who believed the Union should be saved above all
Who is remembered for his insights, the Emancipation Proclamation and missing the end of a play
Abraham Lincoln
Part II:
Renaissance Web Assignment
Please use Google to research the following people/terms/ On a piece of looseleaf please write down all terms and a brief description of each.
Terms and Concepts
1. Renaissance
2. Florence
3. Cosimo de’ Medici
4. Lorenzo de’ Medici
5. humanism
7. secular
8. patrons
9. Baldassare Castiglione
10. “Renaissance Man”
11. Christian Humanists
12. utopia
13. printing press
14. Isabella d’Este
15. Donatello
16. perspective
17. Michelangelo
18. Leonardo da Vinci
19. Raphael
20. Sofonisa Anguissola
21. vernacular
22. Dante
23. Francesco Petrarch
24. Desiderius Erasmus
25. Francois Rabelais
26. Johann Gutenberg
27. Boccaccio
28. Niccolo Machiavelli
29. Vittoria Colonna
30. Northern Renaissance
31. Francis I of France
32. Albrecht Durer
33. Hans Holbein the Younger
34. Flanders
35. Jan van Eyck
36. Pieter Bruegel
37. Thomas More
38. William Shakespeare
