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are an amazing way to get your students engaged and active in their

learning! The graphic organizers and foldables in this resource are

designed to be folded, cut, glued, & written-on to enhance your

instruction of history. It’s always amazing to see the creativity

some of your students will put into their creations!

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Renaissance Vocabulary Foldable

Directions: Cut out this foldable graphic organizer along the dotted lines and then fold and glue into your

notebook. Underneath each term write a definition in your own words on one side and then draw a picture to

represent the term on the other side of the flap.

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Humanism

Secular

Patron

Sistine Chapel

Perspective

Mona Lisa

The Prince

Vernacular

Renaissance Vocabulary Foldable Samples

Directions: Today, a Renaissance man is someone who is good at many different things. This comes the

Renaissance when someone like Leonardo da Vinci excelled at painting, science, engineering, math, and more.

Cut out the graphic organizer below and complete the drawings for what a “Renaissance Man” man looked like

then and now. Then add descriptive characteristics about each in the space around each drawing.

Directions: Cut out the entire map along the dotted line then color in and label key cities from the Italian

Renaissance. Glue the map into your notebook along the left side so that the right side can be flipped up along

the cut dotted lines. Then complete flaps the “Who, What, When, Where, Why, How” flaps related to the

Italian Renaissance.

Directions: Leonardo da Vinci was an Italian painter, sculptor, architect, mathematician, engineer, inventor,

anatomist, and writer. He is widely considered to be one of the greatest painters of all time and perhaps the most

diversely talented person ever to have lived. His famous notebooks contain over 13,000 pages of inventions,

sketches, and studies in science and engineering.

Cut out top portion as one piece then fold slightly along the solid horizontal middle line so that you can cut the

dotted middle portion. Then cut out and slightly roll up the bottom portion and slide it through the hole you cut

in the top portion. Align the two pages and you have your book!

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Fill the pages of your book

with your own sketches of

Da Vinci’s works. Be sure

to include his most famous

artistic pieces and notes on

their titles and why they

are so important.

You should also include

biographical information

about Da Vinci and his

impact on the Renaissance.

Directions: The Sistine Chapel is the largest and most important chapel in the Vatican. Its ceiling was famously

painted by Michelangelo and it is one of the best examples of Renaissance art. Cut out the chapel ceiling below

along the dotted lines and paste it into your notebook so that the side flaps can be lifted up. Finish the drawing on

top and then fill out information on your notebook under each flap. For more information, you can see:

http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/michelangelo.htm

Directions: The most important philosophy to come out of the Renaissance was Humanism. This philosophy and

literary movement broke from medieval religious traditions in favor of more secular subjects. Cut out the graphic

organizer below and draw pictures or symbols on top of each flap to help represent that aspect of Humanism.

Then write down appropriate information on your notebook page underneath.

Directions: While most people think of the great artists when they think of the Renaissance, there were also

many writers in Europe who produced influential works. Some (like Dante) influenced the beginning of the

Renaissance (or even before it officially began). Others came later as the Renaissance spread through Europe.

Cut out the books below and paste them into your notebook so that you can flip them up. Design a picture for

the cover, then write down the importance of each work on your notebook under each flap.

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Comparing the Italian & Northern Renaissance Foldable

Directions: Before 1500, the Italian Renaissance had little influence outside Italy. However, ideas eventually

spread around Europe. This became known as the Northern Renaissance and influenced life in Germany,

England, and other areas of Europe.

Cut along the dotted lines and place glue only behind the title so that the 3 parts can be folded up and down.

Underneath each flap, write characteristics that apply to that area of the Renaissance and then some that

apply to both. Think about artists, writers, patrons, styles, important works, etc

Comparing the Italian & Northern Renaissance Foldable

Directions: When the Renaissance spread north and reached England, it influenced the greatest writer in the

English language: William Shakespeare. He wrote many dramatic plays and poems known as sonnets. Cut out

the organizers below and list some of his tragedies,

comedies, sonnets, and then a little about his life on each.

Then glue the folder into your notebook so that each

page fits inside.

Comedies

Tragedies

Sonnets

Histories

William Shakespeare’s First Folio

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Reformation Vocabulary Foldable

Directions: Cut out this foldable graphic organizer along the dotted lines and then fold and glue into your

notebook. Underneath each term write a definition in your own words on one side and then draw a picture to

represent the term on the other side of the flap.

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Printing Press

Gutenberg Bible

Indulgences

95 Theses

Protestant

Predestination

Calvinism

Anglican Church

Jesuits

Council of Trent

Counter Reformation

Directions: Martin Luther is one of the most influential men in history. His simple act of posting his 95 Theses to

the church door in Wittenberg, Germany began the Protestant Reformation. Cut out this page along the dotted lines

so that the church doors open. Then list problems that existed inside the church on your notebook behind the

doors. Write down a definition on the 95 Theses, then describe its key ideas and the effect it had in the boxes.

Key Ideas Effect

The 95 Theses Definition:

Directions: England’s King Henry VIII is infamous for his 6 marriages – 2 of whom he had executed. Complete

the graphic organizer below by drawing portraits of each wife in the circles then writing their name and why they

were married and divorced in the space below.

Directions: Johannes Gutenberg’s invention of a movable type printing press in 1450 had a massive impact on

Europe. Cut out the graphic organizer below along the dotted lines and glue into your notebook so that the

question flaps can be lifted up. Then answer each question under the flap.

Before

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Printing

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Who was Johan

Gutenberg?

What did

the printing

press do?

What impact did it have in the short & long term?

Directions: The Counter Reformation was the Catholic Church’s response to the growing Protestant

Reformation. It began with the Council of Trent in 1545and resulted in various actions taken by the church. Cut

out and complete the graphic organizer below with causes of the Catholic Counter Reformation, what the

Council of Trent was, and then the actions the church took.

Here are some additional resources for teaching about the Renaissance and Reformation that fit in perfectly with

these Interactive Notebook graphic organizers!

Reformation PowerPoint