1. Wednesday, September 28, 2011 Bell work:
What is a Renaissance man? Who would be an example of a Renaissance man or women today?

2. Wednesday, September 28, 2011 Bell work Pass back essays and discuss
Humanism chart
Reading and reflection: “The Divine Comedy”

3. Thursday, September 29, 2011
Essential Question: What caused the Protestant Reformation? How did Martin Luther change the religious beliefs of Europeans?
(2nd take up homework)
Bell work
Discuss Dante
Notes: Reformation
95 Thesis Activity

4. Friday, October 1, 2011
Essential Question: What caused the Protestant Reformation? How did Martin Luther change the religious beliefs of Europeans?
Bell work
2nd block take up essay
Notes: Reformation
People of the Renaissance handout
Bingo

5. Causes of the Protestant Reformation
The Renaissance placed an emphasis on the secular and the individual challenged church authority
Rulers began to challenge church power
Northern merchants didn’t like paying taxes to the Catholic Church in Rome

6. Criticisms of the Catholic Church
Leaders were corrupt
Renaissance popes spent lots of money on the arts, spent extravagantly for their personal pleasure, and fought wars
Some even broke the vow of chastity and fathered children (Pope Alexander VI)
Priests and monks poorly educated – many couldn’t even read or write

7. Luther challenges the Church
Luther set out to be a good Christian, not to begin a religious revolution
Indulgence - a pardon that released a sinner from performing a penalty imposed by a priest – people had the impression that an indulgence could buy their way into heaven
Some also bought indulgences so their dead family members could escape purgatory, the step between heaven and earth where people must pay for their sins

8. Martin Luther

9. Martin Luther’s 95 Theses
October 31, 1517: Luther nails the 95 Theses, his complaints against the Catholic Church, to the Wittenburg Church door
Copies become widely distributed throughout Germany (used Gutenberg’s Printing Press)
This began the Reformation, a movement for religious reform

10. Wittenburg Church Door

11. Luther’s teachings
People could win salvation only by faith in God’s gift of forgiveness
All church teachings should be based on the Bible, not on what the pope or church traditions said
All people with faith were equal – people didn’t need priests to interpret the Bible for them

12. Luther’s legacy
Luther credited with doctrine of “justification by faith”, translation of Bible into German, and starting Lutheranism
Luther renounces Catholic teachings at Diet of Worms
Protestant – Christians who belonged to non-Catholic churches