FREE People of the Renaissance Notebooking Journal

Published:
March 17, 2020

Bonnie Rose Hudson

Contributor:
Bonnie Rose Hudson

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The Renaissance was a time of artistic, political, and religious changes. Help students learn more about this pivotal time with this FREE People of the Renaissance Notebooking Journal.

Portrait of Amerigo Vespucci

They were artists, kings, princes, reformers, authors, explorers, and more. Give your students a way to explore the lives of 50 of these famous people with the FREE People of the Renaissance Notebooking Journal.

For each person in this unit, students will get to record their:

  • date and place of birth
  • date and place of death
  • the area(s) the person worked in
  • the person’s most significant contributions to history
  • other interesting facts about the individual’s life

A few of the individuals they will learn about include:

 
  • Albrecht Dürer
  • Andrea Mantegna
  • Casimir III
  • Christopher Columbus
  • Dante Alighieri
  • Ferdinand Magellan
  • Geoffrey Chaucer
  • Guy de Chauliac
  • Henry the Navigator
  • Hernán Cortés
  • Huldreich Zwingli
  • Ivan III (Ivan the Great)
  • Johannes Gutenberg
  • Leonardo da Vinci
  • Lorenzo Ghiberti
 
  • Louis XII
  • Luca Della Robbia
  • Martin Luther
  • Michelangelo
  • Pánfilo de Narváez
  • Pedro de Alvarado
  • Petrarch
  • Piero della Francesca
  • Raphael
  • Richard III
  • Sandro Botticelli
  • Thomas More
  • Vasco da Gama
  • Vasco Núñez de Balboa
  • William Tyndale
 
 

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