Martin Luther, Part 1

Jared Peet

Warm Up

• Is there anything that you believe in so strongly that you would risk your life for it?– Why?

Objectives and Essential Question

Objectives• Understand the role that

the Catholic Church played in the everyday lives of Europeans

• Analyze the impact that the different places Luther lived had on his ideas and career by making an argument for which place had the biggest impact on him

Essential Question• What were the causes of

the Protestant Reformation?

Martin Luther: Driven to Defiance

1. In what specific ways did the Church control life during the 1500s?

2. Luther was affected by the different environments/locations that he lived– Erford, Rome, Wittenberg– Use the chart to fill in information about each

location and its impact on Luther– What location had the biggest impact on Luther?

Why?