June 9- June 13 Lesson Plan Roundup
Summer Project Continued:
Like many of our classroom teachers, the passports Curriculum Department has taken on a summer project. Over the next few weeks, we’ll be reviewing each of our current lesson plans, revising them when necessary.
This week’s revised lesson plans:
Medieval Europe - Bubonic Plague 1348
Medieval Europe - Dante’s Inferno
Medieval Europe - Dante’s Paradiso
Medieval Europe - Dante’s Purgatorio
Medieval Venice - Basilica di San Marco
Medieval Venice - Marco Polo’s Travels
Medieval Venice - Fourth Crusade 1202-1204
Renaissance Florence - Botticelli: The Birth of Venus
Renaissance Florence - Brunelleschi’s Dome on the Duomo
Renaissance Florence - Donatello
Renaissance Florence - Machiavelli: The Prince
Renaissance Florence - Medici Family
Renaissance Florence - Michelangelo: The Divine One’s David
Renaissance Florence - Verrocchio: Leonardo’s Master Teacher
Renaissance Italy - Leonardo da Vinci: An Overview
Renaissance Italy - Leonardo: The Last Supper
Renaissance Rome - Michelangelo: The Last Judgment
Renaissance Rome - Michelangelo: Sistine Chapel Ceiling
Renaissance Rome - Michelangelo: Pieta
Renaissance Rome - Raphael: School of Athens
Roman Empire - Nero and the Great Fire of 64 CE
Roman Empire - Pompeii 79 CE
Roman Empire - Pompeii: Villa of the Mysteries
Roman Republic - Punic Wars: Expanding Rome’s Influence
Spain and the Age of Discovery - Pizarro: Conquest of the Incas
Auschwitz Concentration Camp
Interwar Europe (1919-1939) - Nazi / Soviet Pact of 1939
Scientific Revolution - Heliocentric Model of the Universe
World War II - Holocaust: Oskar Schindler’s List
World War II - Nazi Invasion of Poland 1939
Spanish American War - Puerto Rico 1898
Cold War - Russia’s Iron Curtain
World War II - Nazi Invasion of Poland 1939
Crimean War 1853-1856
Great War - Treaty of Brest-Litovsk 1918
Imperial Russia - Dostoevsky: Notes from Underground
Imperial Russia - Dostoevsky: The Grand Inquisitor
Imperial Russia - Dostoevsky: The Little Orphan
Imperial Russia - Panslavism
Imperial Russia - Peter the Great
Russian Revolution - Lenin: The October Revolution
World War II (1939-1945) - Stalingrad: Turning Point
Vikings and Sagas - Erik the Red and Leif Erikson: Explorations of the North Atlantic
Age of Discovery - Columbus
Hannibal Barca of Carthage - Enemy of Rome in the Second Punic Wars
Modern Art - Salvador Dali: Surrealist Master
Interwar Europe - Dali and Bunuel
Al-Andalus: Islamic Spain
Reconquest of Iberia
Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) - Abraham Lincoln Brigade
Interwar Europe (1919-1939) - Dadaism: Rejecting Bourgeois Culture
Protestant Reformation - John Calvin and Predestination
Anne Frank: Lost Child of the Holocaust
Byzantine Istanbul - Constantinople: The New Rome
Byzantine Istanbul - Constantinople: Hagia Sophia
Byzantine Istanbul - Fall of Constantinople 1453
Byzantine Istanbul - Great Schism of 1054: Catholic vs. Orthodox
All of the current passports lesson plans have been checked and revised (when necessary).
Check back here next Friday for a new set of lesson plans!