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Assessment Home Connection

Self-assessment is a powerful tool to help you evaluate your learning development.
Use the K-W-L chart below to keep track of your progress.

K What I W What I Want L What I Dear Parents,

As part of our social studies program, your child has been learning about
Know
Learned
to Know
the Renaissance. Your child learned ways that he or she can identify the
effects of the Renaissance on medieval life and the development of arts
and sciences.

You can help your child by supporting our classroom learning.

Here are some things you can do to reinforce the message of this lesson
and our related learning activities.
• Ask your child to tell you about the lesson and what he or she

learned from it.
• Help your child to explain how the Renaissance positively affected

our lives.
• Watch a video about the Renaissance in Western Europe.
• Watch with your child a video about the key people of the

Renaissance, like Leonardo da Vinci, Galileo, Michelangelo, or
Copernicus.

Thank you for being a partner with us
in the education of your child!

Tidbit

Though the Renaissance ourished in the area of
Research has shown that children with involved parents score
modern Italy, the word is actually of French origin,
better than others whose parents don't have a role in their
meaning “rebirth.” education process. Help your child stay brilliant!

Cathedral of Santa Maria
del Fiore, Florence, Italy

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