Jewish Persecution

Today, students learned about Jewish persecution throughout history and the Holocaust.  This will build a foundation of knowledge for the Holocaust speaker on Thursday, March 12.  

Holocaust Prezi

Medieval Essay Test

Students had the whole class period to take the essay test. Tomorrow we will start a mini unit on the Holocaust and Jewish persecution.  It will prepare students for the Holocaust speaker on March 12.

Life in Medieval London

Review: What are the symptoms of the Black Death?

Buboes - enlarged lymph nodes

Fever

Chills

Headache

Weakness

Bleeding

Tissue death (black color)

Bloody mucus

Today, students will be watching a video about the filthy city of London during the Middle Ages.  Since there was no school yesterday, the essay test will be moved to Thursday.  

Filthy London

Black Plague video and Essay prep

Review - What event helped bring Europe out of the Dark Ages?

Crusades opened up trade routes and brought back the ideas of the Greeks and Romans.

Today, students will put together their study packets.  Next, we will watch about 20 minutes of the plague documentary.  Finally, we will finish by discussing the essay questions for the test on Tuesday.

Study packet -

1. World Cultures pg. 84-89

2. Printing Press Paragraph

3. Feudal Life Interactive

4. World Cultures 95-104

5. Manor Notes

6. Questions of the Day

Essay test questions

Medieval Essay Test - Tuesday, March 3rd


Requirements
-    5 complete facts, lists will only count has one fact
-    Use the RACE Strategy, Restate, Answer, Cite Evidence, and Explain the evidence
-    Everyone will do #1, then you can choose two of the other four essays
-    Capitalization and punctuation will be graded

1. Explain Manoralism.  What is it?s purpose? Who ran the Manor? Who did the most hard labor? What things are part of the manor? Why are they in a manor?




2. Describe the role of religion in the Middle Ages.





3. Compare the lives of Medieval people to people today




4. How did life change in Western Europe after the fall of the Roman Empire?




5. What was the Black Death and what were its effects on people physically and socially?  How was it spread and how did the hygiene practices of the time help it spread?

Medieval Activities Day

The Medieval Activities Day was a great success.  Students were able to listen to a speaker from the Raptor Center and view two different birds of pray, learn about textiles in the Middle Ages and turn wool into yarn, play a Black Death simulation game, Reader's Theatre, build and test catapults and creating a coat of arms for themselves.  

Reminders 
Medieval Essay Test - Tuesday, March 3rd

Conferences - March 3, 9 and 12

Magma Carta - limited the Kings power of taxation

Manor Project turn in

Review: What pandemic spread through Europe and led to the death of 25 million people.

Black Death - Bubonic Plague

Plague video - For students in Mods 3 and 4

Today, students turned in the manor projects for grading.  This assignment will be worth 16 points.  We discussed plans for the medieval activities day tomorrow and went over answers to a worksheet.  It was a short day so we had to go over information quickly.

Reminder:
Medieval Activities Day - Tomorrow

Medieval Essay Test - Tuesday, March 3rd