Grade+11,+Unit+2

== =UNIT 2: EUROPEAN LITERATURE: RENAISSANCE AND REFORMATION= = = =ESSENTIAL QUESTION: How does Renaissance literature break with and build on the literature of the Middle Ages?= = = =LITERARY TEXTS--= =DRAMA:= = = =NOVELS:= = = =POETRY:= = = =INFORMATIONAL TEXTS--= =ESSAYS:= = = =NONFICTION:= = = =ART, MUSIC AND MEDIA--= =ART:= = = =MEDIA:= = = = A DDITIONAL RESOURCES--= = = =FUNDAMENTALS--= =WRITING:= = = =GRAMMAR AND USAGE:= = = =MECHANICS:= = = =TERMINOLOGY:= = =
 * = //Henry IV,// Parts I and II by William Shakespeare=
 * = //Macbeth// by William Shakespeare (core) =
 * = //A Midsummer Night's Dream// by William Shakespeare =
 * =//Nine Carnival Plays// by Hans Sachs=
 * =//The Jewish Women// by Les Juifves and Robert Garnier=
 * = //The Decameron// by Boccaccio Giovanni (continued from Unit One) =
 * = //The Life of Gargantua and the Heroic Deeds of Pantagruel// by François Rabelais =
 * = "Dark Night of the Soul" by Saint John of the Cross (excerpts) =
 * = "Sonnet 29: When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes..." by William Shakespeare =
 * = "Sonnet 30: When to the sessions of sweet silent thought..." by William Shakespeare =
 * ="Sonnet 40: Take all my loves, my love, yea, take them all..." by William Shakespeare=
 * = "Sonnet 116: Let me not to the marriage of true minds..." by William Shakespeare =
 * = "Sonnet 128: How oft when thou, my music, music playst..." by William Shakespeare =
 * ="Sonnet 130: My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun..." by William Shakespeare=
 * ="Sonnet 143: Lo as a careful houswife runs to catch..." by William Shakespeare=
 * ="Sonnet 146: Poor soul, the centre of my sinful earth..." by William Shakespeare=
 * = //The Faerie Queene// (epic poem) by Edmund Spenser (excerpts)=
 * = "The Nightingale of Wittenberg" by Hans Sachs =
 * = "The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd" by Sir Walter Raleigh =
 * = "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love" by Christopher Marlowe =
 * = "Of Cannibals" (c. 1580) by Michel de Montaigne =
 * =//On the Divine Proportion// (//De divina proportione//) by Luca Pacioli (illustrations only)=
 * = //Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects// by Giorgio Vasari =
 * = //Rabelais and His World// by Mikhail Bakhtin =
 * = The Prince by Nicolo Machiavellie (excerpts) =
 * =Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini, //Ecstasy of Saint Teresa// (1647-1652)=
 * =Jacopo da Pontormo, //Desposition from the Cross// (Entombment) (1525-28)=
 * =Leonardo da Vinci, //Mona Lisa// (1503-1506)=
 * =Leonardo da Vinci, //The Virgin and Child with St. Anne// (1508)=
 * =Leonardo da Vinci, //Vitruvian Man// (1487)=
 * =Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni, //David// (1505)=
 * =Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni, //Ceiling of the Sistine Chapel// (1508- 1512)=
 * =Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni, //The Last Judgment//, Sistine Chapel altar wall (1536-1541)=
 * =Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, T//he Entombment of Christ// (1602-1603)=
 * =Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino, //The Niccolini Cowper Madonna// (1508)=
 * =Sandro Botticelli, //La Primavera// (1482)=
 * =Documentaries as found on //DiscoveryEducation//.com, //A&E//, and //History Channel//=
 * ="Dark Night of the Soul" Treatise=
 * =Nothing new this unit.=
 * =Nothing new this unit.=
 * =Allusion=
 * =Classicism=
 * =Divine proportion (golden ratio, golden mean)=
 * =Divine right of kings=
 * =Eclogue=
 * =Epistle=
 * =Fate=
 * =Free will=
 * =The Great Chain of Being=
 * =Humanism=
 * =Iambic pentameter=
 * =Iambic tetrameter=
 * =Idyll=
 * =Ode=
 * =Satire=
 * =Sonnet=
 * =Symmetry=

=RETURN to 7-12 ELA Curriculum=

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