Name: "Renaissance & Enlightenment" & Video Lessons: Regents Global 9 CRQ
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What's inside this resource

"Renaissance & Enlightenment" & Video Lessons: Regents Global 9 CRQ

This product is a constructed-response question (“CRQ”) in the format of the new New York State Regents examination in Global History and Geography.

The CRQ calls upon the student to examine historical sources (I use exclusively primary sources) by providing historical or geographic context, identifying the point of view, intended audience, or purpose of a document and then using the two documents in either compare-contrast, cause-effect analysis, or turning point identification. I advocate a strategy of assigning one CRQ in each unit of study in grades nine and ten without access to notes. I used this as one of the tests at the end of a unit of study. I would tell students about what kinds of documents would appear and what

historical context they should be able to recall in advance. It is a challenging task for them.

The first challenge for novices is to understand what it means to provide context. Faced with the question “What is the historical context of this document?”, beginners will retell what the document says. The reason for this mistake is that, since they were little kids, teachers have asked them to relate what a text means to prove they understood it. [Read more at the Innovation blog]

Product includes:

1. Student version

2. Teacher version with suggested answers

3. Passcode to video lessons students can use to prepare the task.

Documents:

Petrarch, on the successful ruler
Machiavelli, also on successful ruler
David Hume, excerpt
On Education of Women

Passcode Lessons:

The Renaissance, part 1
The Renaissance part 2
The Reformation part 1
The Reformation part 2
Russian History part 1
Russian History part 2
Russian History part 3
Russian History part 4

About Innovation Passcodes

Passcodes let your students access selected lessons in my own virtual classroom at InnovationAssessments.com. No registration is required. Use the codes at InnovationAssessments.com/TestDrive.

What's included

Student assessment (Serial No. CRQ361377): two document sets with historical-context, reliability, and document-relationship questions over lined response space (pages 18-25)
Teacher's Edition (Serial No. CRQ361377t) with NYS framework references (9.9/9.9a), full-size documents, and suggested scoring notes for both sets (pages 1, 4-14)
Teacher-authored four-level rubric for CRQ sets plus an explanatory essay on classroom scoring versus the Regents' zero-or-one credit (pages 2-3)
New York State Social Studies performance level indicators page (page 15)
Passcode sheet unlocking eight video review lessons — The Renaissance parts 1-2, The Reformation parts 1-2, Russian History parts 1-4 — with embedded auto-corrected questions (page 26)

Resource types: Teacher Tools, Assessments

In the classroom

Teaching tips & learning objectives

Learning objectives

Explain the historical circumstances that shaped Renaissance political thought and led Enlightenment writers like Hume to challenge traditional beliefs
Identify the point of view or purpose of a primary source and evaluate its reliability with supporting reasoning
Compare ideas about leadership across Petrarch and Machiavelli using evidence from both documents
Analyze the role of reason in Enlightenment thinking across Hume and the essay on the education of women

Teaching tips

Use the rubric's explicit failure mode when preparing students: a response that 'just summarized what the document says' earns the low score, so teach the difference between retelling and contextualizing before the task
Score classroom attempts on the four-level rubric for discussion and remediation, but remind students the actual Regents CRQ awards only zero or one credit per response, as the included essay explains
Hand out the video-lesson passcodes as review before the assessment — the eight lessons cover the Renaissance, Reformation, and Russian history strands of the same framework unit
Keep the Teacher's Edition's suggested scoring notes at hand during grading; each question has model context, point-of-view, and comparison content written out

Skills covered

Historical contextualization — students explain the circumstances behind Renaissance political ideas and Hume's Enlightenment skepticism rather than summarizing the documents.
Source evaluation — students identify point of view or purpose and judge each document's reliability, giving their reasoning explicitly.
Cross-document comparison — students identify a similarity or difference about leadership (Set 1) and the role of reason (Set 2), citing evidence from both documents.
Regents CRQ format practice — the sets mirror the constructed-response structure of the New York State Global History and Geography I examination.

Good to know

Questions teachers ask about this resource

Which documents do students analyze?

Four primary sources across two sets: Petrarch's Rules for the Successful Ruler (c. 1350) and an excerpt from Machiavelli's The Prince for the Renaissance set, then David Hume's An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding and an essay on the education of women (from the Harvard Classics English essays volume) for the Enlightenment set.

How does the Teacher's Edition differ from the student version?

The student version carries the documents, questions, and lined response space. The Teacher's Edition adds framework references for each document, suggested scoring notes answering every question, a four-level classroom rubric, and New York State performance level indicators.

How do the video lessons pair with the Renaissance and Enlightenment CRQ sets?

Eight review lessons hosted at the vendor's site — The Renaissance parts 1 and 2, The Reformation parts 1 and 2, and Russian History parts 1 through 4 — each with embedded questions that are corrected automatically as students work.