Oklahoma Social Studies MWH.C.2.2

MWH.C.2.2 is a cluster heading. These are the individual standards under it.

• MWH.C.2.2.A

  Examine intellectual development and advances (i.e., vernacular literature and expanded literacy, the arts, engineering, human anatomy) focusing on selected his...

• MWH.C.2.2.B

  Describe how humanism furthered the values of republicanism, liberty, and individualism.

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What Students Need to Do

Students explain why wealthy Italian cities became centers for studying Greek and Roman works. They use the work of artists and writers to describe changes in art, anatomy, literature, and politics. They connect humanist ideas to individual choice, civic freedom, and self-government.

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What Mastery Looks Like

Students explain how trade wealth and patrons supported artists and scholars. They use a work by Michelangelo or Leonardo to show how classical study shaped art or anatomy. They explain how vernacular writing reached more readers and connect Machiavelli's republican arguments to civic liberty.

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Common Misconceptions

Students may think Greek and Roman learning vanished, though scholars in the Byzantine and Islamic worlds preserved many texts. They may assume all humanists rejected religion or supported republican government. They may also read Renaissance talk of liberty as equal rights for women and the poor.

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How to Assess It

Exit ticket: Explain how trade wealth supported classical learning in Florence. Then use Michelangelo's David, displayed outside the city hall, to connect a humanist idea to republican liberty.

1. 01

   Give pairs a trade-route map and cards labeled Florentine bankers, Greek manuscripts, Medici patrons, and Michelangelo; have them build a cause-and-effect chain.

2. 02

   Display Michelangelo's David outside Florence's city hall; ask how the statue could express both individual strength and pride in a republic.

3. 03

   Deal cards showing Raphael's School of Athens, Leonardo's anatomy sketches, and Machiavelli's Discourses; teams match each to an advance and defend their choices.

4. 04

   Show photos of a local public mural and Michelangelo's David; ask whose values each work puts in public view.

• MWH.C.2.4

  Evaluate the legacy of the Scientific Revolution on society, focusing on major theories and discoveries.

• AWH.C.7.4

  Analyze the influence of Greek civilization on Roman art, literature, society, and government.

• AWH.C.10.5.B

  Identify the growing influence of universities, Roman law, canon law, and Scholasticism.