Student Activities
Student materials include:
• Resources for listening activities
• Ready-to-use worksheets
• assessment tools (practice journals) as well as online quizzes and rubrics
• “Quest for Excellence” - An internet technology component which uses a web curriculum format. This format is an inquiry-oriented activity in which most or all of the information used by students is drawn from the Web.

Web Lesson 2
Music/Instruments

Lizards, Shawms and Zinks?

Believe it or not, these are musical instruments!

Use our quest to discover different kinds of instruments used in the Renaissance.

Musicians also had special jobs during the Renaissance.

Use this lesson to find out more!

The Renaissance - a revival or rebirth of cultural awareness and learning that took place during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, particularly in Italy, but also in Germany and other European countries.

This period was characterized by a renewed interest in ancient Greek and Roman art and design and included an emphasis on human beings, their environment, science, and philosophy.

Artlex on the Renaissance http://www.artlex.com/

ArtLex/r/renaissance.html

Web Lesson 1
Dance

Today we have many different types of Dance: hip-hop, jazz, ballroom, ballet, and many more. During the Renaissance time period (from the 1300's to the 1600's), they had different types of Dance too. The two main types of dance during the Renaissance were Court dance, and Peasant dancing. Court dances were done for entertainment and more complex, the courtiers would hire dance masters to come up with some new dances. Peasant dancing was usually not for entertainment but just for the fun of dancing!

Come explore Renaissance dance and the relationship to music of this time.