Project-Based learning tool to help students research & understand events and people of the Renaissance. Students design game characters, settings and "missions" based on actual historical events.

1. Assassin’s Creed
Renaissance
Create your own characters and setting
for a video game expansion pack

2. Assassin’s Creed
Background
• Assassin’s Creed has game
entry set during the
Renaissance time period.
• This game used REAL
settings & people from
the Renaissance to tell a
made-up story.
• The game makers did
EXTENSIVE research to
portray everything from
the Renaissance correctly.

3. Assassin’s Creed
Da Vinci in the game

4. Assassin’s Creed
Italy in the game

5. Assassin’s Creed
Your Task
• You’ve been hired to
create an expansion pack
called “Assassin’s Creed:
Renaissance.”
• You’ll design characters &
a setting for this game.
• You’ll include information
from the time period to
make it realistic.

6. Assassin’s Creed
Requirements
1. Develop 5 new characters
based on actual
Renaissance people.
2. Develop a new setting
based on a prominent
location during the
Renaissance.
3. Develop a “Mission”
based on an event during
the Renaissance.

7. Assassin’s Creed
Characters
1. Develop 5 new characters
based on actual Renaissance
people. Include the
following:
• Picture of the person
• Historical Background of
their life
• Their special ability or
power in the game
• How they fit into the
video game’s story

8. Assassin’s Creed
Characters
Potential Characters:
• Dante Alighieri
• Galileo Galilei
• Nicholas Copernicus
• Machiavelli
• Isaac Newton
• Michelangelo
• Donatello
• Thomas More
• Johannes Kepler
• Martin Luther
• Erasmus
• William Shakespeare
• Raphael
• Pope Clement VII
For starters:
http://www.biographyonline.net/people/famous/renaissance.html

9. Assassin’s Creed
Setting
2. Develop a new setting
based on a prominent
location during the
Renaissance.
• Explain three important
features of this location.
• Describe the people
living in this location.
• Analyze why it was
important to the
Renaissance era.

10. Assassin’s Creed
Setting
Potential Settings:
• Milan
• Venice
• Naples
• Rome
• Genoa
• Sicily
• Ottoman Empire
For starters:
http://www.ducksters.com/history/renaissance/italian_city-states.php

11. Assassin’s Creed
Mission
3. Develop a “Mission” based on
an event during the
Renaissance.
• Explain the importance of the
event.
• Describe the people involved.
• Analyze why it was important
to the Renaissance era.
• Explain how it fits into the
game
For starters:
http://europeanhistory.about.com/od/therenaissance/a/rentimeline.htm

12. Assassin’s Creed
Starter Page
The Characters I will use are:
1. ____________________
2. ____________________
3. ____________________
4. ____________________
5. ____________________
The Setting I will use is:
1. ____________________
The Event for my “Mission” is:
1. ____________________

13. Assassin’s Creed
Character BIO
Character’s Name:
___________________________
Historical Background:
___________________________
___________________________
___________________________
___________________________
___________________________
___________________________
Their special ability in the game:
__________________________
__________________________
__________________________
__________________________
How they fit into the story:
__________________________
__________________________
__________________________

14. Assassin’s Creed
Setting Info
Location Name:
___________________________
Three features of this location:
1)__________________________
___________________________
2)__________________________
___________________________
3)__________________________
___________________________
Describe the people living here:
__________________________
__________________________
__________________________
__________________________
Why was this place important:
__________________________
__________________________
__________________________

15. Assassin’s Creed
Mission Info
Renaissance Event:
___________________________
Explain the event:
___________________________
___________________________
People involved:
___________________________
___________________________
___________________________
Importance of the Event:
__________________________
__________________________
__________________________
__________________________
How it fits in the game:
__________________________
__________________________
__________________________