Notes

• Renaissance means rebirth
• Started in Florence, Italy.
• The Medici started the Renaissance Movement to life.(Lorenzo)
• They called them humanists, someone who returns to the classics.
• The artists and the writers.
• Artists relied on perspective, lifelike, humanistic.
• Michaelangolo was a great painter and scupltor. (Sistine chapel was a famous work of art.)
• Located in The Vatican City.
• In 1999 sold picture rights' to the Japanese.
• da Vinci's famous painting was the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper
• Rapheal painted Madonna's
• The writers.
• Petrarch wrote poems to Laura.
• Machiavelli <3 wrote the "Prince".
• Is it better to be loved than feared or feared than loved?
• It is better to be feared than loved for a leader, but loved than feared as a person.

• Guhtenburg is famous for the printing press
• Erasmus is famous for The Praise of Folly
• Thomas More's famous book was Utopia
• Wlliam Shakespeare wrote Romeo and Juliet
• The Flemish were the first to paint on canvas

Notes- Chapter 14

Section-3

1. The Black Death was a plague that killed almost 1/3 of the population.
2. The time of the Black Death were very unhealthy and unclean times.
3. Waste was dumped into the gutter and the rats ate the waste so the rates picked up the disease and passed it to people.
4. Some entire villages and towns were wiped out by the plague.
5. During the Black Plague many peasants stages upbringings because there were so few of them to do the work they could demand more money.

Section-4

1. Vernacular languages- languages spoken everyday that varied from place to place
2. Troubadours- traveling singers who wrote poems about love and chivalry
3. Dante Alighieri- was a medieval writer, wrote "The Divine Comedy"
4. Geoffrey Chaucer- medieval writer that wrote "The Canterbury Tales" a group of stories from the view of the pilgrims
5. Scholasticism- attempt to bring together faith and reason
6. Peter Abelard- a philosopher of scholasticism taught in Paris in 1100
7. Thomas Aquinas- a monk of the Dominican order, the greatest medieval philosopher
8. Gothic- a word for a style unliked, taken from the barbarian Goths

Section 5-

1. In 1328 the last male member of Frances Capetian dynasty died
2. Edward II claimed the French throne
3. In 1337, Edward brought an army to Flanders hoping to gain control of the rich trading area
4. By 1453, France controlled all of French lands except Calais
5. Many new weapons were introduced during this war such as the long bow,  gun powder, and cannons
6. Castle walls no longer protected the kings from danger because of all the new weapons
7. Besides lost of land the Hundred Year War

February Bellringers

February 2-
George Washington Carter

1. Carter wished to become an artist.
2. Carter was held for ransom with his mother and brother when he was just a baby.
3. Received an offer from Booker T. Washington to teach at Tuskegee Institute in Alabama.
4. He earned his master's degree in agriculture.
5. Building dedicated in honor of Carter at Simpson College.

February 8-
Langston Hughes

1. Langston Hughes was a writer.
2. Born on February 1, 1901.
3. Enrolled at Columbia University.
4. Graduated from Lincoln University in 1929.
5. Hughes recieved many different awards.

February 9
Whoopi Goldberg

1. Whoopi Goldberg is an actress born in 1949.
2. She was born in New York City.
3. In 1974 she moved to California.
4. In 1984 she played in "The Spook Show" on Broadway.
5. Her biggest success was when she starred in "The Color Purple."

February 13
Jesse Owens

1. Jesse Owens was a famous track star.
2. He was born on September 12, 1913.
3. He ran in the 1936 Olympic Games.
4. He opened a public relations firm.
5. He won many gold medals in the Olymipcs.

February 14
Michael Jordon

1. Michael Jordon was a businessessman and a basketball player.
2. He was born February 17, 1963.
3. In 1991, '92, and '93 he led the Bulls to and NBA championships.
4. In '98 he led the Bulls to their sixth NBA title.
5. Michael Jordon has three children.

February 15
Duke Ellington

1. He was a composer, bandleader, and pianist.
2. He was born on April 29, 1899.
3. He began piano lessons when he was seven.
4. He married in 1918.
5. He was a jazz composer.

February 16
Ida Bell Wells- Barnettt

1. She was an African American journalist.
2. She was born in Mississippi.
3. Born on July 16,1862.

February 28
Sojourner Truth

1. She was born in New York.
2. She fled from slavery in 1827.
3. She had thirteen children.

February 29
Clarence Thomas

1. He was born June 23, 1948.
2. In 1964 the Civil Rights Act was enacted.
3. He became a legislative assistant in 1979.

Jackie Joyner-Kersee

1. Born of March 3,1962.
2. In 1988 and 1992 she won gold medals.
3. She won a silver medal in the 1884 Olympic Games.

Elijah McCoy

1. Born in Canada in 1843.
2. He was famous for inventing the vehicle wheel tire and air-brake lubricant.
3. His parents were both slaves who escaped on the Underground Railroad.

Tiger Woods

1. Born on December 30,1975.
2. He was the youngest player to win the Masters.
3. He is a pro golfer and the first since Jack Nickalous to capture two major tournaments. 

Louis Armstrong

1. Born in New Orleans, Louisiana
2. He was a famous jazz musician.
3. His father became a straw boss in a turpentine factory.

Marcus Garvey

1. He was from the West Indies.
2. He was born on August 17, 1887.
3. First to articulate the concept of African nationalism.

W.E.B. DuBois

1. He was an African American scholar.
2. He was a leader in the 20th Century African American protest movement.
3. Born on February 23, 1868.

James Baldwin

1. He was a writer born in New York.
2. He moved to France in the early 1970s.
3. Known as the most eloquent literary spokesperson for civil rights for African Americans.

Frederick Douglass

1. He was an African American abolitionist.
2. Born in February 1817 in Maryland.
3. First African American leader of national stature in US history. 

Notes on PowerPoint

-Select a Nursery Rhyme
-Creating a six slide PowerPoint
-1-3: History of Nursery Rhyme
-1-2: line by line summarize nursery ryhme
-each slide needs two photos
-3: Want AD for nursery rhyme (slogan, pictures, etc.)
-4-6: pick another historical event and make a nursery rhyme

Facts about Technology

Wikipedia launched in 2001.
93% of adults own a cellphone.
The number of texts messages sent today exceeds the amount of people on the planet.
Less than 1% of kids are allowed to use cell phones in school.
The top 10 in demand jobs in 2010 weren't even invented in 2004.
There are 31 billion searches on Google each month.
The 1st commercial text was sent in December of 1992.
There are about 540,00 words in the English language.
694,00 songs were illegally downloaded during the video.