{"id":527,"date":"2008-06-24T14:07:46","date_gmt":"2008-06-24T13:07:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/key-stage\/year-8-history\/the-renaissance-who-was-the-most-important-person-of-the-renaissance\/"},"modified":"2008-06-24T14:08:47","modified_gmt":"2008-06-24T13:08:47","slug":"the-renaissance-who-was-the-most-important-person-of-the-renaissance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/key-stage\/year-8-history\/the-renaissance-who-was-the-most-important-person-of-the-renaissance\/","title":{"rendered":"The Renaissance &#8211; Who was the most important person of the Renaissance?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/main_area\/worksheets\/yr8\/renaissance\/3_who\/1_Research_Task.pdf\">detailed lesson plan<\/a> for year 8 history students. A class list is put into the Fruit Machine Name Picker at www.classtools.net to choose the Renaissance character each student should produce a research project on. This Renaissance project will be written in the first person to ensure that the student reads the information, under three clear headings. This is then placed onto a Renaissance Wiki (see the example my students have produced <a href=\"http:\/\/history-wiki.wikispaces.com\/year_8_index\">here<\/a>). The class then has a balloon debate (instructions provided) to determine who the most important Renaissance person overall. An alternative approach is to use <a href=\"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/Miscellaneous\/free_stuff\/Yr8_Renaissance_Projects\/index.htm\">this website and worksheet<\/a> &#8211; which is simpler and quicker, although less engaging perhaps for the students.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A detailed lesson plan for year 8 history students. A class list is put into the Fruit Machine Name Picker at www.classtools.net to choose the Renaissance character each student should produce a research project on. This Renaissance project will be written in the first person to ensure that the student reads the information, under three&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/key-stage\/year-8-history\/the-renaissance-who-was-the-most-important-person-of-the-renaissance\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[11,3],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pAq0G-8v","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}