Hello Everyone,

This week we started working on Chapter 3. We have finished the background story providing context to the end of the middle ages and the start of the Renaissance in Italy. We are now starting to explore what the changes and ideas of the Renaissance are. We started talking about Humanism. This is an idea, with the word coming from Latin, around the importance and value of human thought and reason. Looking back at what the ancient Roman and Greeks wrote, the Humanists started to copy their approach to thinking and looking at the world. Hence the name re discovery or rebirth referring to the ideas and thoughts of Ancient Rome. We will continue to look at this idea and explore now of the new/old ways of thinking when we return after break.
You have some vocabulary and some workbooks about chapter 3 to keep you busy. Also we will ensure to complete the Calligraphy project when we return.

Have a good restful week.