The Art of Writing and Revision

CONTENTS OF CURRICULUM UNIT 25.02.07

  1. Unit Guide
  1. Introduction
  2. Teaching Situation & Rationale
  3. Unit Content
  4. Teaching Strategies
  5. Classroom Activities
  6. Appendix on Implementing District Standards.
  7. Resources
  8. Notes

Voices from the Renaissance: Letters Through Time

Julian Lopez-Carmona

Published September 2025

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Notes

1 Marilyn Penovich Friend and Lynne Cooke, Interactions Collaboration Skills for School Professionals (Boston Pearson Education, 2017). P 30,31

2Mack, Peter.  A History of Renaissance Rhetoric: 1380-1620, Ch 1 # 2 (YALE Library)

3 Oxford English Dictionary, s.v. ”Renaissance,” accessed July 30, 2025, https//wwwoed.com

4 Jonathan Sawday,” Towards the Renaissance Computer” in The Renaissance Computer: Knowledge Technology in the First Age of Print, eds. Neil Rhodes and Johnathan Sawday (London: Routledge, 2000), 29

5 Enrollment (no date) Colorado Department of Education. Available at: https://www.cde.state.co.us/schoolview/explore/enrollment/0880/5578 (Accessed: 25 July 2025).

6 Best Practices in Writing Instruction. United Kingdom: Guilford Publications, 2018. P. 18

7 “The Phonological processing skills are the ability to use knowledge of phonemes to process spoken and written language,” Roepke, Elizabeth. 2024. “Assessing Phonological Processing in Children With Speech Sound Disorders.” Perspectives of the ASHA Special Interest Groups 9 (P.1): 14–34.

8 Roepke, Elizabeth. 2024. “Assessing Phonological Processing in Children With Speech Sound Disorders.” Perspectives of the ASHA Special Interest Groups 9 (P.1): 14–34.

9 Denise Schmandt-Besserat, “The Interface between Writing and Art: The Seals of Tepe Gawra,” Syria, no. 83 (January 1, 2006): 183–93, https://doi.org/10.4000/syria.237.

10 Best Practices in Writing Instruction. United Kingdom: Guilford Publications, 2018. P 57

11Nico Franz, “Leonardo Da Vinci – Letter to Ludovico Sforza,” Nicofranz.art, 2025, https://nicofranz.art/en/leonardo-da-vinci/letter-from-leonardo-da-vinci-to-ludovico-sforza.

12 Agnes Crawford, “Raphael, a Thwarted Pioneer of Architectural Preservation.,” Substack.com (Understanding Rome’s Newsletter, April 15, 2022), https://understandingrome.substack.com/p/raphael-a-thwarted-pioneer-of-architectural.

13 Fryer, L., Freeman, J., & Pring, L. (2014). Touching words is not enough: How visual experience influences haptic–auditory associations in the “Bouba–Kiki” effect. Cognition, 132(2), 164–173. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2014.03.015

14 Poetry Foundation, “Michaelangelo: To Giovanni Da Pistoia When the Author Was Painting the Vault of the Sistine Chapel by Gail Mazur,” Poetry Foundation, March 15, 2020, https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/57328/michaelangelo-to-giovanni-da-pistoia-when-the-author-was-painting-the-vault-of-the-sistine-chapel.

15 RR Auction, “Catherine de Medici Autograph Letter Signed (23 Lines of Handwriting) - Urging the French Ambassador to Spain to Broker Marriage Proposals between The,” Rrauction.com, 2020, https://web-2.rrauction.com/auctions/lot-detail/350338507210156-catherine-de-medici-autograph-letter-signed-23-lines-of-handwriting-urging-the-french-ambassador-to-spain-to-broker-marriage-proposals-between-the-two-kingdoms/.

16 Richard A Lanham, A Handlist of Rhetorical Terms (Berkeley ; Los Angeles ; London: University of California Press, , Cop, 1968), 42–50.

17 Helene Harrison, “Analysis of Elizabeth I’s Speech at Tilbury before the Spanish Armada 1588,” Tudor Blogger, August 27, 2015, https://tudorblogger.com/2015/08/27/analysis-of-elizabeth-is-speech-at-tilbury-before-the-spanish-armada-1588/.

18 Williamse, “Excerpted from Janson’s History of Art, Fifth Edition, 1995, 627. ,” www.phs.poteau.k12.ok.us, August 27, 2007, https://www.phs.poteau.k12.ok.us/williame/APAH/readings/Artemesia,%20on%20being%20cheated.pdf.

19 Quoted in R. D. Kyncl, W. G. Troxel, S. S. Gizerian, C. M. McGill, and P. L. Hagen, "Using Classical Rhetoric to Facilitate Scholarly Inquiry," in Scholarly Inquiry in Academic Advising, 2nd ed. (Routledge, 2022), 279, https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003446903-21.

20 Elizabeth Armstrong, Before Copyright: The French Book-Privilege System 1498-1526 (Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press, 2002). 188.

21 J. R., Renaissance Europe: 1480-1520 (University of California Press, 1977). 276

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