Modern Renaissance Project: Home

Assignment: Students will create a visual representation explaining the causes and effects of the Italian Renaissance (1400-1600) and compare it to a more recent example of a Renaissance (a cultural rebirth).

Questions:

1. What are at least three causes and at least three effects of the Italian Renaissance?
2. What are at least three causes and at least three effects of your chosen modern Renaissance?
3. What are at least three points of comparison between the Italian Renaissance and your chosen modern Renaissance?

Research Requirements:

• one database source for the Italian Renaissance causes/effects
• one credible web source for the modern Renaissance causes/effects
• Works Cited page

Notes Page - make a copy of this notes page to help organize your research

You will have to provide a Works Cited page for your final presentation. It might be easiest to use Noodletools to do this, especially since you will be using a web source.

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• Roaring 20s (Jazz Age)
• Harlem Renaissance
• Post WWII Pop Art
• Golden Age of television
• Golden/Silver/Bronze Age of comics
• 1960s fashion
• 80s reboots (Stranger Things, Top Gun, Star Wars, Ghostbusters)
• Internet boom of the 1990s and early 2000s
• Social Media
• Cryptocurrency
• Bill Gates, modern philanthropy
• Matthew McConaughey (The McConaissance)
• Post-Covid wages increasing (what could this lead to?)
• Kurt Warner's football comeback
• New wave 80s music
• Renaissance men/women of today (i.e. Lady Gaga, Selena Gomez, Hailee Steinfeld, Justin Tucker, Harry Styles)
• Diet fads (Keto, Paleo)
• K-pop (ex: BTS)
• K-drama (ex: Squid Game, Parasite)