Train the Brain with Renaissance Readings
A program to build high school students' reading power for standardized testing, specifically Florida's Comprehensive Assessment Test
Shawn Eric DeNight
Miami Edison Senior High School
Contents
- Introduction
- Dante's Inferno, "First Canto Lines 1-21"
- Castiglione's The Courtier, "A Good Reputation"
- Questions
- Vasari's Lives of Three Renaissance Artists, Michelangelo, "The Sistine Chapel"
- Phillips & Phillips' The Worlds of Columbus, "Seville to Española"
- Machiavelli's The Prince, "On Avoiding Being Despised and Hated"
Top of page