Bell Ringer:
List 2 characteristics of a TRAGIC HERO
Connection: The actual leaders of the Renaissance were TRAGIC HEROES
Renaissance History
England must always have a strong king:
1455-1475 - War of the Roses
Yorks -White Rose - Stuarts
Tudors- Red Rose - Lancasters
**Note secession of royal families below
1475- Printing Press - Gutenberg
1485- Henry VII- First Tudor King
1492- Columbus discovers America
1509- Henry VIII - 6 wives; Catholic Church; Father of next three rulers
1516 Utopia - Sir Thomas Moore
1534- Proclamation of the English Church
1547-53 - Edward II
1553-58- Mary
1558-1603- Elizabeth I - Universal order
**Discoveries; Arts; Music; Writing; Sculpture; Military and Science/ Medicine
1558- Sir Walter Raleigh to VA
1558-1616- Book of the Courtier
1564- 1616 - Wm. Shakespeare - April 23: 37 plays - Renaissance man
1588- Defeat of the Spanish Armada
1588- Sir Walter Raliegh to Virginia
1590- Faerie Queen
1603- Elizabeth dies - Stuarts take over
1603- 25- James I (king) - Union of England and Scotland
1616 - Death of Shakespeare
1640- Charles 1
1640- Civil War
1642- Theaters closed and Charles is beheaded (Puritan beliefs)
1660- Charles II - Restoration of the monarchy
1455-1475 - War of the Roses
Yorks -White Rose - Stuarts
Tudors- Red Rose - Lancasters
**Note secession of royal families below
1475- Printing Press - Gutenberg
1485- Henry VII- First Tudor King
1492- Columbus discovers America
1509- Henry VIII - 6 wives; Catholic Church; Father of next three rulers
1516 Utopia - Sir Thomas Moore
1534- Proclamation of the English Church
1547-53 - Edward II
1553-58- Mary
1558-1603- Elizabeth I - Universal order
**Discoveries; Arts; Music; Writing; Sculpture; Military and Science/ Medicine
1558- Sir Walter Raleigh to VA
1558-1616- Book of the Courtier
1564- 1616 - Wm. Shakespeare - April 23: 37 plays - Renaissance man
1588- Defeat of the Spanish Armada
1588- Sir Walter Raliegh to Virginia
1590- Faerie Queen
1603- Elizabeth dies - Stuarts take over
1603- 25- James I (king) - Union of England and Scotland
1616 - Death of Shakespeare
1640- Charles 1
1640- Civil War
1642- Theaters closed and Charles is beheaded (Puritan beliefs)
1660- Charles II - Restoration of the monarchy
HOMEWORK:
COMPLETE THE WORKSHEETS IN YOUR PACKET: (DUE TUESDAY)
1. GETTING ACQUAINTED WITH SHAKESPEARE
2. ELIZABETHAN ERA
R11.A.2 Identify, interpret, describe and analyze literary devices in fictional and literary nonfictional texts.
