Process


 * //Please note: A "Renaissance noun" is a person, place, or thing that was significant to the Renaissance Era.//**

= Here's how we did it! =

===__**Step One**__: Figuring out how we all meshed together... The biggest question that faced us from the get-go was "where do our curricula overlap?" We began by sorting out the learning outcomes that each of us would need to address in our separate disciplines.===

Globe Theater Elizabeth I || Galileo Copernicus Newton Kepler || Machiavelli Rafael Michelangelo Donatello DaVinci DeMedici Guttenberg || Performance Creative writing based on text and characters || Timeline activity Web based star research Unit Test || Small group research projects on individual figures? (iMovie/quiz) ||
 * =  ||= **English** ||= **Science** ||= **Social Studies** ||
 * **Renaissance Nouns** || Shakespeare
 * **Basic area of learning** || Fun with language || Fun with gravity, stars, telescopes, and the people who love them || Fun with art history, architechture, government, Reformation ||
 * **Discipline based assessments** || QA/Essay

===__**Step Two**__: Establishing a format for our unit and plans. We wanted to have at least three occasions to bring the entire academy together to focus on our overall theme. This proved to be a difficult task as we all had different visions for what this would look like and how to make it relevant.===

Our vision now for the unit is that in our separate classrooms students will be immersed in different aspects of the Renaissance, and that we'll come together as an academy at the beginning, middle, and end to do more connected work. We hope that students take away a sense of the Renaissance as a time of growth and exploration in multiple areas that enriches and deepens their content specific learning in each class.

** Timeline ** || ** Middle: ** ** Commitment Ceremony ** || ** End: ** ** Renaissance Noun Faire ** ||
 * ** Beginning: **
 * Each student is assigned a noun relating to the Renaissance in areas of literature, theater, history and science

Students produce two pieces of work -one visual to be placed on timeline in tech hallway (four corner poster) -the other a one to two page document to put on project wiki

noun they get will not be what they pick for the commitment ceremony

now need to create dates for timeline and list of topics || Each student picks three nouns they might be interested in bringing to the noun faire

Must write an explanation as to why those three topics chosen

The three teachers will assign nouns based on students' three choices

Kick off for project – Get all the kids together, renaissance foods, dance, etc. Demonstrate final product, go over requirements

Some of the details will be worked out when we have a better idea of schedules || Noun exhibition (maybe in room 130 or auditorium at central office)

Noun exhibition may be: - video - poster - model - dance - anything student wants to do that will demonstrate understanding of noun

will develop rubric for exhibition

evaluation form that requires students to take an in depth look at each exhibit (assign each project a number, each student needs to pick three random numbers and fill out evaluation for each presentation)

must integrate all three disciplines in their presentations, grades given in each of the three classes ||