📜 Sources for Characters and Conflict

Students analyze short primary and secondary sources on the Renaissance, Enlightenment, and Scientific Revolution, including images, excerpts, and brief historical summaries. The teacher models how to pull out era-specific beliefs, tensions, and daily-life details that could shape a printer’s apprentice, natural philosopher, artist, or political thinker. Students annotate sources and record historically grounded possibilities for settings, motives, and conflicts.