Renaissance Personal Journal/Scrapbook

Below is the list of requirements for your Renaissance project as well as some websites to get you started on your research journey


Personal Journal Criteria: The journal entries will be written in first person. You will write the journal as if you were the person you chose from the Renaissance.
The Cover: Your name, Your Renaissance person’s name, Renaissance person’s birth-death dates, block, project due date. Scrapbook needs to be contained in some manner.
State your name (this means your person), create a date from the Renaissance for your journals.
Journal entries: Two entries on separate pages
Explain who you are and why you are important for your time. What makes you take
risk or try new things? What are your dreams or goals and are you able to achieve
them?
Who are your friends, family, rivals? Who has influenced you the most? Has anyone
thwarted you? What do you find challenging about living during this time?
You need a picture of you for your scrapbook. (This means your person!) Find pictures, texts of things that interest you and represents the Renaissance. (Limit textual information to short paragraphs in order to keep the page dynamic.)
Bibliographical information: Cite your sources on a separate Bibliography page. This includes every source on the Internet from which you take your information—text, pictures, clipart, backgrounds, etc.
You will present your personal journal/scrapbook as your person to the class and explain why the “scraps” you chose to include are representational of you and the Renaissance.

Renaissance Websites:
http://hms.ttsd.k12.or.us/curriculum/7/renaissance/people.html

http://www.geocities.com/capecanaveral/launchpad/9983/renaissance.html

http://www.yesnet.yk.ca/schools/projects/renaissance/

http://www.42explore2.com/renaissance2.htm

http://www.midrealm.org/mkyouth/links/peopleren.htm (general information)

http://killeenroos.com/2/PEO1415A.htm (general information)