A+Renaissance+Timeline

Renaissance Assignment ** ( 200 pts.) ** Shakespeare lived in a time of great advances in architecture, art, science, and culture. Do a little exploration of your own and create a timeline to show me what you've learned.
 * Your Task: **
 * Create a timeline using PowerPoint ** of no less than fifteen (15) important historical facts surrounding the Elizabethan Era starting from 1533 and ending in 1603.

Be sure to include at least ONE of each of the following types of things:

(does NOT have to be English but is DOES have to have been invented within the years listed above)
 * 1) Building of a theater
 * 2) Destruction of a theater
 * 3) Ascension of Elizabeth I to the throne of England
 * 4) First performance of one of Shakespeare’s plays
 * 5) Beginning of a bout of the Plague
 * 6) Beginning of a war involving England and another European country
 * 7) Creation of one new invention of the times

Each slide must include: (see example below)
 * the year
 * a brief explanation in at least two complete sentences
 * a picture
 * in-text citation



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 * All explanations MUST be paraphrased.
 * With the exception of scientific inventions, all information must come from the British Isles (England, Scotland, Ireland, & Wales)
 * All pictures must be cited to their ORIGINAL place of origin. (NOT google images or some other image search engine!)
 * Any explanation copied word for word will not receive credit.
 * The PowerPoint is worth 120 points.
 * A separate and an all-inclusive MLA format Works Cited page of no less than six different sources must be handed in for the final 80 points.
 * Final Project must be saved using last names and turned into the Project Drive in the Timeline folder by the start of class on the due date

NO WIKIPEDIA or any other encyclopedia will be accepted as sources. Projects will be graded using the attached rubric.