WEEK OF OCTOBER 21 - 25

Monday will find the students going over the Venn diagram on Protestants and Catholics. Students will then be given a vocab word to draw the definition of.

Tuesday will find us looking at Martin Luther. We will read about him and take a little comprehension quiz.


Wednesday will find us making an FBI most wanted poster for Martin Luther. It is a half day.

Thursday we will look at the effect of  Protestant Revolution in England with King Henry VIII and his daughters.




On Friday we will be finishing up on Mary Tudor and Elizabeth I

WEEK OF OCTOBER 15 - 18

Tuesday will find us starting a new unit. We will be looking at the Protestant Reformation. We will be taking a quick pretest.  Then we will be introduced to Revolutions. This will be the theme for the rest of the year. Students will be given a Freyer Model which will help us define and understand Revolutions.

Students will be given a homework packet that will be due on Monday of next week.
Here it is.

WEDNESDAY WE ARE ON A FIELD TRIP TO A CAMP IN SANDWICH.

Thursday we will finish the Freyer Models. The students will be given a vocabulary word to work on.  We will also start with our first Revolution. The Revolution of Religion.  We will start looking at the Protestant Reformation. We will be taking a few notes. The notes can be found here.


Friday will finish the notes and start looking at Martin Luther the spark of the Protestant Reformation.  Strange true history.

WEEK OF OCTOBER 7 - 11

Here is bibliography of two books:
Cross Section of Castle
Stephen Biest
Dorling Kindersley  London
1994

Eyewitness Medieval Life
Andrew Langley
DK Publishing Inc   London
1988



Monday we will collect the Middle Ages Project.  We will also finish up the Cathedral activity.

Tuesday we will look at the crusades and their impact. This religious war brought a huge change to western society such as building techniques, food items such as lemons and oranges and ideas such as algebra.




Jerusalem during crusade 

Jerusalem today. 

Wednesday we will be looking at the Magna Carta. This document sets out rules for the monarch. It is the basis for our constitution.

Thursday will find us review for the test on Middle Ages.

Friday is a test on the Middle Ages.