| Welcome to Mr. Ph's World History/Geography Class |
| My goal is to make learning a positive experience in our classroom by using a wide variety of activities and project-based learning to meet the California Social Science Standards in an atmosphere where everyone can succeed. In addition, students will analyze past events in order to gain a more insightful perspective of the world in which we live in. In order to comprehend the present, we must gain knowledge of the past; history can give us the keys to the future that is inside all of us |
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The Crusades News Article
You are a reporter for a European Newspaper during the time the Crusades were ending. Europeans had received very little information about the Crusades because the fighting had taken place so far away. They want to learn more about what happened. Therefore, your boss has asked you to write the feature article for the newspaper, which will explain the Crusades to the people of Europe. Here are the requirements for you news article:
1. Title
2. Author
3. Your article must include the following information:
a. How did the Crusades begin? 5 points
b. Where was most of the fighting? 5 points
c. When did each one of the Crusades take place? 5 points
d. Who were the main participants in the Crusades? (Specific people and countries involved, example Saladin, Richard I). 5 points
e. What happened in each one of the Crusades? 5 points
f. Why were the Crusades unsuccessful? 5 points
**REMEMBER** This is the FEATURE article and needs to be four or more paragraphs long. All of Europe depends on you to help them better understand these Crusades.
Link to 01 November Class project: Crusade News Article (30 points) |
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Pope Gregory VII: He thought popes should have the power to choose bishops. He believed popes, not kings, got their power from God.
Emperor Henry IV thought popes had too much power. He argued that kings should choose bishops because God had chosen the king.
Excommunicate: to cast out from the church.
Crusades: The crusades were a long series of wars between Christians and Muslims in South Asia. They fought over control of Palestine.
Holy land: Europeans called Palestine the Holy Land because it was the region where Jesus had lived, preached, and died.
Pope Urban II: Pope Urban called on Christians from all over Europe to retake the Holy Land from the Muslim Turks. He challenged Europe’s kings and nobles to quit fighting among themselves and fight together against the Turks.
King Richard I: He was called “lion Heart” for his courage, Richard I was a skilled soldier and a great general. He did not succeed in taking Jerusalem during the Third Crusade.
Saladin: Saladin is often called one of the greatest generals of the Middle Ages. The Muslim leader successfully held Jerusalem against Richard I in the Third Crusade. Saladin’s people considered their leader a wise ruler. Crusaders respected his sometimes kind treatment of fallen enemies. Many Christians saw him as a model of knightly chivalry.
Clergy: Church officials and their teaching were very influential in European culture and politics.
Religious order: A group of people who dedicate their lives to religion and follow common rules.
Saint Francis of Assisi: Francis considered everyone his brother or sister, including animals. People begun to copy his lifestyle and called them, Franciscans. Because they didn’t live in monasteries, members of these orders were not monks.
Friars: People who belonged to religious orders but lived and worked among the general public.
Thomas Aquinas: He was teacher at the University of Paris. He argued that rational thought could be used to support Christian beliefs. For example, he wrote an argument to prove the existence of God. He believes in natural law.
Natural law: a law that governed how the world operated.
Magna Carta: This document listing rights that the king cannot ignore. More importantly, Magna Carta required that everyone-even the king-had to obey the law.
Parliament: The lawmaking body that governs England today. By the late Middle Ages, kings could do little without Parliament’s support.
Hundred Year’s War: A long conflict between England and France.
Joan of Arc: a teenage peasant girl who rallied the French troops against the English during the Hundred Year War.
Black Death: a deadly plague that swept through Europe between 1347 and 1351. The plague killed 25 million people in Europe.
Heresy: Religious ideas that oppose accepted church teaching. People who hold such ideas are called heretics.
Reconquista (Reconquest): The efforts to retake Spain from the Moors.
Spanish Inquistition: An organization of priests that looked for and punished anyone in Spain suspected of secretly practicing their old religion. The
Spanish Inquisitions were ruthless in seeking heretics, Muslims, and Jews. They often burned to death; the Spanish sentenced about 2,000 people to die.
Policy: Rule, course of action
Authority: Power, right to rule
Link to 1 Keyterms and People for November-December |
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Innovation (p.27)– a new idea or way of doing something.
Efficient (p.34)– Productive and not wasteful
Strategy (p.32)– a plan for fighting a battle or war
Cause – to make something happen
Effect – the result of an action or decision
Purpose – use or function; reason; objective
Policy: Rule, course of action
Authority: Power, right to rule
Link to Academic Vocabularies |
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Students will keep a daily warm up journal and write journal logs in interactive notebook.
Link to Classwork |
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1. What changes occurred in Europe after the fall of Rome?
2. What factors helped Christianity to grow and spread?
3. What was feudalism and how did it work?
4. What role did the manor system play in the economic structure of Europe during the Middle Ages?
5. What was town life like during the Middle Ages?
6. What internal problems weaken the Roman Empire?
7. What brought about the fall of Rome?
8. What are the main Characteristics of the Byzantine Empire?
9. What was life like in Constantinople?
10. What lasting contributions of Roman culture influenced later societies?
11. What similarities did the feudal societies in Europe and Japan share?
12. How did European and Japanese feudalism differ?
13. Why was the Church so powerful during the middle ages?
14. Why did the Christians begin a series of wars to conquer Palestine?
Link to Essentail Question Extra Credit (2 points per question)- One paragraph minimum |
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CA Standards: Students analyze the geographic, political, economic, religion, and social structures of the civilization of Medieval Europe.
Early Medieval Feudal Poster Project 25 points:
1. Students will choose one of the following subjects about Feudal society:
a. Kings/Queens
b. Lords/Nobles
c. Knights
d. Peasants/Serfs
2. First create a rough draft of your poster that illustrates the following:
a. Title at the top of the page
b. One big picture in the center of your poster that represents your subject.
c. Concept bubbles connected to the picture that explain different characteristics pertaining to your subject.
d. You must have at least 4 bubbles:
I. Three bubbles that describe your subject's duties.
II. One bubble that describes your subject's life on the manor.
-IMPORTANT- make sure that your rough draft has all of the requirements stated above.
e. Get poster paper and create your poster.
I. Make sure you add color to your final project.
Middle Age Time line Poster
15 points
1. Time line (page 227) must have important events dating from 450-1000.
2. Poster must have illustration of important people during time period.
3. Poster must have colors
4. Poster must have title: The Early Middle Ages
5. Write down all the important events on the bottom and the top of the time line.
Link to Extra Credit Projects : 7th grade World History |
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11/08-11/13: Section 1: Pope and Kings read page 260-263.
11/16-11/20: Section 2: The Crusades read page 264-268
11/23-11/27: Thanksgiving break
11/30-12/04: Section 3:Christianity and Medieval Society
read page 269-275
12/7/-12/11: Political and Social Change
read page 276-279, Challenges to Church Authority read page 282-285.
12/14-12/18: Review Section 1-5, benchmark test.
Link to Homework: 2009-2010 |
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Augustus: Rome’s first emperor, set many of the powers that later emperors would have. The Emperor had the power to declare war, raise taxes, control trade, punish lawbreakers, choose public officials, influence Senate meetings, and lead religious festivals.
Diocletian: Roman Emperor in 200s divided the empire in two, Western and Eastern Empire.
Constantine: Roman Emperor who moved the empire’s capital to the east into what is now Turkey. The city was called Constantinople, which means “the city of Constantine.”
Attila: Leader of the Huns raided Roman territory in the east. Attila led the Huns in raids against Constantinople, Greece, Gaul, and parts of northern Italy.
Clovis: a Frankish king built a huge kingdom in Gaul. He was one of the most powerful of all the German kings.
Pope: the leader of the Christian church in Rome.
Justinian: Roman emperor during 527-565, who wanted to unite Roman Empire. His passion was for the law and the church. He ordered the removal of all out-of-date or unchristian laws.
Theodora: wife of Emperor Justinian helped her husband stayed in power, helped him stopped riots and saved his throne.
Link to Important People In The Roman Empire |
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Citizens (p.25)– the people who could participate in the government.
Aqueducts (P.26)– human-made channels that carried water from distant mountain ranges into Rome or other cities.
Republic (P.24)– a government in which people elect their leaders.
Barbarians (P.30)– people the Romans considered uncivilized, away from settled area, wild.
Devotion (p.39) – dedication and loyalty.
Guarantee (p.37) – promise
Influences (p.38) – factors that have an effect on an event or persons.
Byzantine Empire (p.38) – the society that developed in the eastern Roman empire after the western empire fell.
Mosaics (p.39) - pictures made with pieces of colored stone or glass.
Corruption (pg.34) – the decay of people’s values
History – the study of the past.
Primary Source – an account of an event created by someone who took part in or witnessed the event.
Secondary source – information gathered by someone who did not take part in or witness an event.
Archaeology – the study of the past based on materials that people have left behind.
Fossil - is a part or imprint of something that was once alive.
Artifacts – objects created and used by humans
Society – A society is a community of people who share a common culture.
Social structure – the way a society is organized.
Link to Vocabularies |
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Students in grade seven study the social, cultural, and technological changes that occurred in Europe, Africa, and Asia in the years A. D. 500Š to 1789. After reviewing the ancient world and the ways in which archaeologists and historians uncover the past, students study the history and geography of great civilizations that were developing concurrently throughout the world during medieval and early modern times.
Link to World History/ Geography 7th |
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Horace Mann Middle School
Augustus Phiny Phiasivongsa
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