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Printing Press Unit Plan PRINTING PRESS UNIT PLAN Compelling In what ways did Gutenberg’s printing press impact change in Europe and the world? Question C3 Historical Thinking Standards – D2.His.1.9-12. Evaluate how historical events and developments were shaped by unique circumstances of time and place as well as broader historical contexts. C3 Historical Thinking Standards – D2.His.2.9-12. Analyze change and continuity in historical eras. Standards and Practices Common Core Content Standards – CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.WHST.9-10.1.B Develop, claim, and counterclaim fairly, supplying data and evidence for each while pointing out the strengths and limitations of both claim(s) and counterclaims in a discipline-appropriate form and in a manner that anticipates the audience's knowledge level and concerns. Staging the What exactly were Johann Gutenberg's inventions and innovations? How did it impact Question the printing process? Supporting Supporting Supporting Supporting Question 1 Question 2 Question 3 Question 4 In what specific ways In what ways did In what ways did In what ways did did Gutenberg’s Gutenberg's printing press Gutenberg's printing Gutenberg's printing printing press improve affect society? press affect culture? press affect politics and the production and economics? distribution of information? Formative Formative Formative Formative Performance Task Performance Task Performance Task Performance Task Create an “owner’s Create a map showing the Create illustrated “how to” In conjunction with your manual” for the spread of Lutheranism and instructions for some task school cafeteria, create a Gutenberg Printing the distribution of printing that may be unknown to special lunch menu. Press. Include all the presses across Europe in many of your classmates Design, duplicate, and steps necessary to the 16th century. Explain (could be “owner’s distribute to every student produce a 48-page the geographic evidence manual” from FPT #1), and a flyer advertising the document. for a correlation between duplicate them for half the special menu. Compare printing and religion in the class. Now try to teach the the impact of your flyer 16th century. task in class and observe with that of printed the differences between handbills in the 15th and the students with and 16th centuries. without the printed instructions. Based on this experience, describe the impact of the printing press on medical training. Featured Sources Featured Sources Featured Sources Featured Sources 1A. Harry Ransom 2A. “How Luther went 3A. Latin Sheet Music, 4A. Pettegree, Andrew. Center, the University viral: Social Media in the http://digitalcollections.mis The Book in the of Texas at Austin, 16th Century,” The souristate.edu/cdm4/docu Renaissance. New Haven: Web Exhibit, Economist, 17 Dec. 2011. ment.php?CISOROOT=/Me Yale University Press, 2010 Guttenberg Bible, http://www.economist.co dieval&CISOPTR=140&REC= 4B. McGrady, Patrick, “Process,” (video) m/node/21541719 13 (Accessed: 24 Feb. 2016) director. The Medieval http:// (Accessed: 19 Oct. 2016) 3B. Nuland, Sherwin B., Mind: The Machine that www.hrc.utexas.e du/ 2B. Woodward, Colin. “Chapter 3: The Made Us. BBC. 2008. exhibitions/permane “The Power of Luther’s Reawakening: Andreas (Stephen Fry and the nt/gutenbergbible/ Printing Press,” The Vesalius and the Gutenberg Press). https:// proce ss/#top. Washington Post, 18 Dec. Renaissance of Medicine,” www.youtube.com/ (Accessed: 24 Sept. 2015. Book Review. in Doctors: The Biography watch?v=8svE2AjQWYE. 2016) Andrew Pettegree, Brand of Medicine. New York: (Accessed: 19 Oct. 2016) 1B. Gutenberg- Luther: 1517, Printing, and Vintage Books, 1988. http:// Museum Mainz, the Making of the topdocumentaryfilms.com 3C. National Institutes of Gutenberg’s Reformation. New York: /machine-that-made-us/ Health, U.S. National Workshop, Penguin Press, 2015. (Accessed: 1 Nov. 2016) Library of Medicine, History “Gutenberg’s https://www.washingtonp of Medicine Division, 4C. Harry Ransom Center, Inventions,” ost.com/opinions/the- “Dream Anatomy: Gallery,” University of Texas at http:// power-of-luthers-printing- https://www.nlm.nih.gov/d Austin, Books Before www.gutenberg- press/2015/12/18/a74da4 reamanatomy/da_g_I-B-1- Gutenberg, Written by museum.de/118.0.ht 24-743c-11e5-8d93- 01.html. (Accessed: 17 June Hand, the Scribe at Work ml?&L=1. (Accessed: 0af317ed58c9_story.html. 2016) and the Illuminator, 24 Sept. 2016) (Accessed: 19 Oct. 2016) http:// 1C. Eisenstein, 2C. History Channel. The www.hrc.utexas.edu Elizabeth L. The book that changed the /educator/modules/gutenb Printing Revolution in world; Gutenberg Bible. (3 erg/books/before/. Early Modern Europe. min.) (Accessed: 24 Feb. 2016) New York: Cambridge http://www.history.com/t University Press, opics/middle- 1979.(p. ix-40) ages/videos/the-book- that-changed-the- world?m=528e394da93ae &s=undefined&f=1&free=f alse (Accessed: 19 Feb. 2016) Alternate Formative Alternate Formative Alternate Formative Alternate Formative Performance Task Performance Task Performance Task Performance Task Create a pad of Write a letter from the Create a museum exhibit Design and create a personally perspective of a woman in illustrating the use of art in student almanac. Include monogrammed writing 16th century Bavaria 15th and 16th century information that you think paper in the style of describing the differences printing. Identify specific would be most useful to Gutenberg printing to between her life and the pieces produced in and you and your peers. How understand the life of her grandmother around the regions of does your creation importance of the who was born a century Europe that housed compare with the almanacs invention of movable earlier. printing presses. of the 15th and 16th type, its use in centuries? Gutenberg's printing press, and its affect on the mass dissemination of information. Use potatoes to carve character blocks and some version of an ink ball to apply ink to the raised characters. Finally use glue and/or to bind the pages together. Link to related hands- on-activity: http:// reach.ieee.org/hands- on-activities/potato- stamp-monogram/ Additional Sources Additional Sources Additional Sources Additional Sources 1D. The Atlas of Early 2D. Bovey, Alixe, “Women 3D. Ayiter, Elif, Ph.D. 4D. Dittmar, Jeremiah. Printing. University of in medieval society,” The Example of French “Information Technology Iowa Libraries, 2013. and Economic Change: British Library, incunabula art. Digital The Impact of the Printing http:// https://www.bl.uk/the- image. History of Visual Press.” The Quarterly atlas.lib.uiowa.edu middle- Communication. Journal of Economics 126, (Accessed: 2 Oct. 2016) no. 3 (Aug. 2011): ages/articles/women-in- http://www.citrinitas.com/ 1133-1172. 1E. Photograph of fine art medieval-society history_of_viscom/images/ https://scholar.google.com/ replica of an Illuminated (Accessed: 18 Sept. 2016) printing/france.html citations? page from a Gutenberg view_op=view_citation&hl=en&use 2E. Hanawalt, Barbara A., (Accessed: 2 Oct. 2016) r=A Bible. For more, see 76r0qMAAAAJ&citation_for_view= Missouri State Univ., The Wealth of Wives: 3E. Vesalius, Andreas. A76 Digital Collections, Women, Law, and Excerpts from De Humani r0qMAAAAJ:u5HHmVD_uO8C Medieval Manuscripts Economy in Late Medieval Corporis Fabrica (Fabrica (Accessed: 24 Oct. 2016) The Appendix. https:// and Early Printing London, New York: Oxford and Epitome), 1543. scholar.google.com/citations? Collection, http:// University Press, 2007. Comparative Anatomy, view_op=view_citation&hl=en&use digitalcollections. http://evolution.berkeley.e r=A missouristate.edu/ 2F. Green, L. (1979). “The 76r0qMAAAAJ&citation_for_view= du/evolibrary/article/histor A76 cdm4 /document.php? education of women in y_02 (Accessed: 24 Feb. r0qMAAAAJ:qjMakFHDy7sC CISORO OT=/ the Reformation.” History (Accessed: 2016) Medieval&CISOPTR of Education Quarterly, 24 Oct. 2016). =76&REC=6 (Accessed: 4E. Eisenstein, Elizabeth L. 19, 93-116. 3F. Missouri State The Printing Press as an 16 June 2016) University., Digital Agent of Change. 1F. Gutenberg Museum Collections, Medieval Cambridge University Press, 1980. Mainz, Exhibition, 15th Manuscripts and Early 4F. Baten, Joerg and Jan Century: Book and Print Printing Collection, Luiten Van Zanden. http:// (collection of 48 items) “Book production and the www.gutenberg- onset of economic http://digitalcollections.mis growth.” Journal of museum.de/42.0.html? Economic Growth 13, no. &L=1 (Accessed: 17 June souristate.edu/cdm4/brow se.php?CISOROOT=/Medie 3 (Sept. 2008): 217-235. 2016) http://link.springer.com/ val&CISOSTART=1,2 article/10.1007/s10887-008-9031-9 (Accessed: 24 Feb. 2016) (Accessed: 24 Oct. 2016) Write a thesis essay that directly addresses the compelling question using specific Argument claims and relevant evidence from historical sources to support your conclusions Summative while acknowledging competing views. Performance TasK Create a trifold board detailing the social, cultural, political and economic changes Extension that may have resulted from the introduction of Gutenberg's printing press. UNDERSTAND: Research the ways in which social media has been used to affect social and political change in Taking the past five years Informed ASSESS: Examine the advantages and disadvantages of relying on social media for news and information Action ACTION: Choose a significant cause which you feel passionate about and use your social media accounts (Snapchat, Facebook, Instagram, etc.) to educate people and rally support for it TO THE TEACHER All REACH Instructional Units are
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