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12th grade middle ages literature circles
Spanking Plato: Set 3: Augustine and Aquinas
Introduction
Alfred North Whitehead, a famous thinker, once said, “All of western thought is a footnote to Plato.” But imagine that western thought is a person. How would he or she feel? Behave? How would you feel if someone listened to what you had to say and said that you were boring? Or unimportant? Or said you were nothing more than an imitation of Bart Simpson? Only a comic character?
In Spanking Plato, a satirical, funny, and irreverent story that some have called the next Monty Python,
Grades:
10th - 12th, Higher Education
The Prince: The Essential Quotes
The Prince, by Niccolo Machiavelli is one of the most influential books published during the Italian Renaissance. The work, an advice book to the Medici family on how to rule, is an example of the new values of humanism and secularism emerging during the Renaissance. I used to ask students to read this relatively brief work (127 or so pages) over the summer months. However, for the past 5 years, I wanted to make the course more inclusive to students. I stopped giving summer reading as a result.
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Grades:
10th - 12th
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Galileo Socratic Circle (with reading and questions)
This is Socratic Circle is over the question of "Should Galileo have been put on trial for his belief in the heliocentric theory?" It includes the reading from his sentencing in 1633, a page of content based questions which require students to analyze the primary source and also an outside circle questions page for students to reflect on their classmates discussion.
Grades:
8th - 12th
Boccaccio: The Decameron and "The Black Death"
In this short reading from Boccaccio's Decameron, readers will experience the horrifying, firsthand account of the Black Death and its effects on the teenagers of Florence. Boccaccio explains how these teenagers give up hope and embrace a life of pleasure and ease. About the author: The Renaissance writer, humanist, and poet Giovanni Boccaccio was born near Florence in 1313. His most famous work is The Decameron, a collection of one hundred and one stories set against the backdrop of the Black D
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Grades:
10th - 12th
History Guided Reading - Religious – Islamic Medicine
History Guided Reading - This is from a Guided Reading Activity from a set of 24 that makes up 4 separate guided reading challenges designed for freshman to senior year students. Each extract is from one of the SPEARS topics (Social, Political, Economic, Armed Conflict, Religious and Science). All are available at www.wolseyacademy.com/reading Guided Reading is an activity in which students are given an extract (2-4 pages-ish) from a real history book. They have to read through it and annotate
Grades:
7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Also included in: Ancient Medicine
History Guided Reading - Science – Black Death Contagion Theories
History Guided Reading - This is from a Guided Reading Activity from a set of 24 that makes up 4 separate guided reading challenges designed for freshman to senior year students. Each extract is from one of the SPEARS topics (Social, Political, Economic, Armed Conflict, Religious and Science). All are available at www.wolseyacademy.com/reading Guided Reading is an activity in which students are given an extract (2-4 pages-ish) from a real history book. They have to read through it and annotate
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Grades:
7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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