Ok, so as part of our unit on worldview, we’ve been looking at Renaissance worldview and it’s influences on today’s Western worldview.

So we got an assignment to make a triple Venn diagram comparing three teenage mutant ninja turtles.

Ok, so maybe we were actually looking at Renaissance scientists, artists and philosophers. Maybe.

Anyway, my Venn diagram looked something like this:

So, probably not the most helpful thing when I found out the assignment was to draw a picture representing the influence of Renaissance worldview on, you guessed it, today’s Western worldview.

So, I drew this:

What I wanted to represent here was a fairly straightforward concept: the Renaissance was when people, or at least when Europe, began to show more interest in thinking, study, art, and science, all things that are still important to us today.

So, we went through the typical critique process of anonymously sticking post-it notes to each other’s work, or in this case near each other’s work, as we just sort of stuck them to the desks. What we were told to write on the post it note was what we thought the picture we were critiquing was representing, so you could tell if your own picture was conveying what it was supposed to.

This was the post it note I found by my drawing:

Now, I did think the interpretation of what my drawing was showing was pretty accurate. However, I was a little confused by the “needs more birds” comment until I realized it had been written by my science teacher, who had earlier commented on a drawing I was doing in science class depicting the story of Raven stealing the light, as an outline for a science project we’re currently working on.

(I do have this drawing, but it’s covered in notes, so I apologize. Here it is if you want to see it:

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I wasn’t really sure how I could add birds into my drawing, but I ended up adding a feather quill into the pen jar on the art book. Because that was definitely the important part of that critique and not the joke…

Other than that, I wasn’t sure how to improve my drawing, so I touched up the picture a little bit, and added a thought bubble showing a shared thought between the Renaisscance and Western worldviews.

Here is my finished product:

Toodles!