Year 8A & Year 8B
Today you are going to learn about the spread of new Italian Renaissance ideas… thanks to the invention of the printing press! (You will be watching some videos during this lesson to learn about the Spread of new Ideas – pay close attention!)
Follow the instructions step by step:
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First, look at your test result (Homework-6) and also see where you have perhaps lost marks:
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Page 9
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Once a way of mass producing books was discovered, new ideas related to art, architecture and science quickly spread across Europe. This happened round about 1450, when a German man invented the so-called printing press!
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To get a better idea of how it worked, watch the following videos about the printing press…
Gutenberg’s Printing Press and Bible. (9:16 minutes long)
This Week in History – Gutenberg Launches the Renaissance. (3:18 minutes long)
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Finally, copy the following definitions into your purple book:
Definitions
Renaissance Man: “a cultured man of the Renaissance who was knowledgeable, educated, or proficient in a wide range of fields”
Golden Age: “a period of time during which art, architecture or the economy flourishes”
Miniature: “a very small portrait painting that could be worn as an ornament by men or women, like a brooch”
Printing Press: “an invention that could produce numerous copies of a page – it could therefore mass produce printed books”
This is the letters used to make words, sentences and paragraphs (to ultimately form the pages of text of a book!) were called “the type”.
The type (or letters) were kept in special trays, also known as “printers’ trays”. (These are now collectors’ items!)
“Setting the type” refers the process of putting the letters in the correct order to make words, sentences, paragraphs – and ultimately to form the pages of a book!
“Inking the type” refers to the process whereby balls of ink were used to put ink on the letters, in order to “print” multiple copies of the pages.
Here are some clues:
(You may use words more than once…)
SOLUTION:
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Revision
Look at the following video to see how new knowledge and ideas spread across Europe…
Spread of New Ideas about Learning. (3:36 minutes long)
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Knew ideas developed thanks to the very talented Renaissance men. Watch this video that shows examples of great Renaissance men.
Renaissance Man – from History Teachers. (3:01 minutes long)
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In the next lesson we will look at the impact that this new invention had. The Printing Press played a major part in the spread of new ideas!
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