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1. Bellringer
1. List four jobs that you could not get if you were
a poor reader.

2. Today:
• How have communication changes affected our
lives?
• 1 page of notes:
Europe 1300-1600’s
2 things made easier by invention of telephone

4. Agree: up arrow
A person’s life improves after using
Facebook, Instagram and/or Twitter
disagree: down arrow

5. Agree: up arrow
Young people post too much about their
lives on the internet
disagree: down arrow

7. On slates
1. 2 positive changes
since 2000
2. 2 negative changes
since 2000
3. 2 new jobs created or
made easier since
2000
4. 2 jobs that were
destroyed or made
harder since 2000

8. Top 5 in your notes
• With your partner:
• Brainstorm the top 5 most important
inventions between 1900-2000

9. Europe before 1400
• All books were
handwritten
• Books took 2 years
or so to hand write!
• Affect on jobs?
• No newspapers
• Discuss: what was
the most common
book in Europe?

11. The Printing Press
• 1455, Johannes
Gutenberg “invented”
• First book: comic book
version of the bible
• New ideas spread all
over Europe
• People became less
ignorant

12. The Renaissance
• 1350’s-1600
• Means “Rebirth” – in French
• 4 Causes:
• Crusaders and traders brought back books
from Muslim areas (Greeks,Science/Philosophy)
• Bubonic plague kills 30%
• Easier to get wealth
• Printing press invented

14. Closure in your notes
5. Why do some historians consider Johann
Gutenberg to be one of the most important
people to ever live?
6. Define 5 words that start with the “re” prefix.
7. List 5 things you’d have a hard time doing if
you could not read.
8. Why might life during the Renaissance have
been exciting? (NOT THE CLOTHES)