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ItalyHistoryGrade 11-12

Ancient Rome: Identity: Rape of the Sabine Women

Through the investigation of primary and secondary sources, students in this lesson will identify, understand and be able to explain the details behind the Rape of the Sabine Women and how the myth became part of the Roman identity and sens…

ItalyHistoryGrade 11-12

Ancient Rome: Identity: Romulus and Remus

Through the investigation of primary and secondary sources, students in this lesson will identify, understand and be able to explain the details behind the story of Romulus and Remus. The mythical/historical narrative behind the founding of…

ItalyhistoryGrade 11-12

Interwar Europe (1919-1939): Mussolini and Hitler: Pact of Steel 1939

Through an examination of both primary and secondary sources on the subject, including various types of visual media in addition to electronic and written sources, students in this lesson will identify, understand and be able to explain the…

ItalyHistoryGrade 11-12

Italian Fascism under Mussolini 1922-1943

Through the investigation of primary and secondary sources, students in this lesson will identify, understand and be able to explain the major points of the fascist doctrine as defined by its Duce, Benito Mussolini, how the Duce came to pow…

ItalyHistoryGrade 11-12

Medieval Europe (476-1450): Bubonic Plague: Europe's Black Death

Through the use of various primary and secondary sources, students in this lesson will identify, understand and be able to explain how the Black Death swept across Europe in the late 1340s, what impact the plague had on how Europeans saw th…

ItalyHistoryGrade 11-12

Medieval Europe (476-1450): Dante's Divine Comedy: Inferno (Hell)

In part 1 of this full analysis of Dante's Divine Comedy, through an in-depth analysis of various primary and secondary sources, students in this lesson will identify, understand and be able to explain the images and stories of characters f…

ItalyHistoryGrade 11-12

Medieval Europe (476-1450): Dante's Divine Comedy: Paradiso (Heaven)

In part 3 of this full analysis of Dante's Divine Comedy, through an in-depth analysis of various primary and secondary sources, students in this lesson will identify, understand and be able to explain the images and stories of characters f…

ItalyHistoryGrade 11-12

Medieval Europe (476-1450): Dante's Divine Comedy: Purgatorio (Purgatory)

In part 2 of this full analysis of Dante's Divine Comedy, through an in-depth analysis of various primary and secondary sources, students in this lesson will identify, understand and be able to explain the images and stories of characters f…

ItalyHistoryGrade 11-12

Medieval Venice: Marco Polo and His Travels

Through the use of various primary and secondary sources, including selections from the Travels of Marco Polo, students in this lesson will identify, understand and be able to explain the story of Marco Polo's adventures in Asia, how he des…

ItalyHistoryGrade 11-12

Medieval Venice: St. Mark's Basilica

Through the use of various primary and secondary sources, students in this lesson will identify, understand and be able to explain the story behind the construction and style used in designing, building and decorating St. Mark's Basilica in…

ItalyHistoryGrade 11-12

Medieval Venice: The Fourth Crusade: Christians vs. Christians

Through the use of various primary and secondary sources, students in this lesson will identify, understand and be able to explain the story behind the Fourth Crusade, what role the Venetians played in the campaign, and how the Fourth Crusa…

ItalyHistoryGrade 11-12

Medieval/Renaissance Venice: The Doge: Merchant Rulers of Venice

Through the use of various primary and secondary sources, students in this lesson will identify, understand and be able to explain how a merchant became a Venetian Doge, what powers the Doge exercised in the performance of his duties and ho…

ItalyCurrent EventsGrade 11-12

Parmigiano-Reggiano: Italy's King of Cheeses

Through an in-depth analysis of primary and secondary sources, students in this lesson will identify, understand and be able to explain how traditional Parmigiano-Reggiano is made, why it has such a storied history, and why the name of the …

ItalyArtGrade 11-12

Renaissance Florence: Botticelli: The Birth of Venus

Through the use of various primary and secondary sources, students in this lesson will identify, understand and be able to explain Botticelli's place in early Renaissance Florentine society, how and why he created his masterpiece The Birth …

ItalyArtGrade 11-12

Renaissance Florence: Brunelleschi's Dome on the Duomo

Through the use of various primary and secondary sources, students in this lesson will identify, understand and be able to explain why building the dome on Florence's Duomo presented such a daunting task and Filippo Brunelleschi's mathemati…

ItalyArtGrade 11-12

Renaissance Florence: Donatello

Through the use of various primary and secondary sources, students in this lesson will identify, understand and be able to explain Donatello's place in early Renaissance Florentine society, both in terms of the importance of his own artisti…

ItalyArtGrade 11-12

Renaissance Florence: Giotto: Father of Renaissance Art

Through the use of various primary and secondary sources, students in this lesson will identify, understand and be able to explain Giotto's role in revolutionizing artistic techniques in the late medieval period, how he used linear perspect…

ItalyhistoryGrade 11-12

Renaissance Florence: Leonardo: An Overview

Through the use of various primary and secondary sources, students in this lesson will identify, understand and be able to explain Leonardo's place in Renaissance Florentine society, his major scientific and artistic works, and how da Vinci…

ItalyHistoryGrade 11-12

Renaissance Florence: Machiavelli's Prince

In this full analysis of Machiavelli's literary masterpiece, The Prince, and through the use of various other primary and secondary sources, students in this lesson will identify, understand and be able to explain Machiavelli's theories beh…

ItalyArtGrade 11-12

Renaissance Florence: Michelangelo's David

Through the use of various primary and secondary sources, students in this lesson will identify, understand and be able to explain Michelangelo's place in Florentine society, how his most famous sculpture, David, was created, and why the st…

ItalyHistoryGrade 11-12

Renaissance Florence: Powerbrokers and Patrons: The Medici Family

Through the use of various primary and secondary sources, students in this lesson will identify, understand and be able to explain how the Medici family was able to come to power in Florence, how the family's patronage of different artists …

ItalyHistoryGrade 11-12

Renaissance Florence: Verrocchio: Leonardo da Vinci's Master and Teacher

Through the use of various primary and secondary sources, students in this lesson will identify, understand and be able to explain Verrocchio's place in Renaissance Florentine society, both in terms of the importance of his own artistic cre…

ItalyArtGrade 11-12

Renaissance Italy: Leonardo da Vinci: The Last Supper

Through the use of various primary and secondary sources, students in this lesson will identify, understand and be able to explain Leonardo's place in Renaissance Italian society, the techniques he used to produce his masterpiece The Last S…

ItalyArtGrade 11-12

Renaissance Rome: Michelangelo: Last Judgement

Through the investigation of primary and secondary sources, students in this lesson will identify, understand and be able to explain the story behind the painting of the Last Judgment by Michelangelo, the techniques used by the artist to pa…