Essential Questions 

1.  How did the fall of Rome effect Europe? 

2.  How feudalism worked and impacted European society and politics?

Content 

Development and workings of feudalist society.

Western Europe after the fall of the Roman Empire

Warfare, politics and government.

Development of new nation states.

Major historical events from the Crusades through the 100 Year War.

Skills 

Bloom's Taxonomy

Webb's Depth of Knowledge

• Compare and Contrast

• Construct

• Evaluate

• Define

• Classify

• Explain

• Interpret

• Differentiate

• Support

• Create

• Illustrate

• Draw and Label Maps

• Vocabulary

• Events

• Role Play

• Religion and Effects on Civilization

• Life

• Innovation

• Primary Sources

• Textbook

• Online

• Documentaries

• Videos

• Maps

WY: Social Studies (2014)

WY: Grades 9-12

Culture and Cultural Diversity

Students will:

SS12.2.1 Analyze and evaluate the ways various groups (e.g., social, political, and cultural) meet human needs and concerns (e.g., individual needs and common good) and contribute to identity (e.g., group, national, and global), situations, and events.

SS12.2.2 Analyze human experience and cultural expression (e.g., language, literature, arts, traditions, beliefs, spirituality, values, and behavior) and illustrate integrated views of a specific culture.

Time, Continuity, and Change

Students will:

SS12.4.1 Describe patterns of change (cause and effect) and evaluate how past events impacted future events and the modern world.

SS12.4.3 Given a significant current event, critique the actions of the people or groups involved; hypothesize how this event would have played out in another country.

People, Places, and Environments

Students will:

Spatial

SS12.5.1 Use geographic tools and reference materials to interpret, analyze, evaluate, and synthesize historical and geographic data to demonstrate an understanding of global patterns and interconnectedness

Physical Place and Region

SS12.5.2 Describe regionalization and analyze how physical characteristics distinguish a place, influence human trends, political and economic development, and solve immediate and long-range problems.

Human Place and Movement

SS12.5.3 Analyze, interpret, and evaluate how conflict, demographics, movement, trade, transportation, communication, and technology affect humans’ sense of place.

Environment and Society

SS12.5.4 Analyze how environmental changes and modifications positively and negatively affect communities and the world both economically and socially.

CCSS: Literacy in History/Social Studies, Science, & Technical Subjects 6-12

CCSS: Grades 9-10

Reading: History/Social Studies

Key Ideas and Details 

1. Read closely to determine what the text says explicitly and to make logical inferences from it; cite specific textual evidence when writing or speaking to support conclusions drawn from the text.

RH.9-10.1. Cite specific textual evidence to support analysis of primary and secondary sources, attending to such features as the date and origin of the information.

2. Determine central ideas or themes of a text and analyze their development; summarize the key supporting details and ideas.

RH.9-10.2. Determine the central ideas or information of a primary or secondary source; provide an accurate summary of how key events or ideas develop over the course of the text.

3. Analyze how and why individuals, events, or ideas develop and interact over the course of a text.

RH.9-10.3. Analyze in detail a series of events described in a text; determine whether earlier events caused later ones or simply preceded them.

Craft and Structure

4. Interpret words and phrases as they are used in a text, including determining technical, connotative, and figurative meanings, and analyze how specific word choices shape meaning or tone.

RH.9-10.4. Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including vocabulary describing political, social, or economic aspects of history/social science.

5. Analyze the structure of texts, including how specific sentences, paragraphs, and larger portions of the text (e.g., a section, chapter, scene, or stanza) relate to each other and the whole.

RH.9-10.5. Analyze how a text uses structure to emphasize key points or advance an explanation or analysis.

6. Assess how point of view or purpose shapes the content and style of a text.

RH.9-10.6. Compare the point of view of two or more authors for how they treat the same or similar topics, including which details they include and emphasize in their respective accounts.

Integration of Knowledge and Ideas

7. Integrate and evaluate content presented in diverse formats and media, including visually and quantitatively, as well as in words.

RH.9-10.7. Integrate quantitative or technical analysis (e.g., charts, research data) with qualitative analysis in print or digital text.

8. Delineate and evaluate the argument and specific claims in a text, including the validity of the reasoning as well as the relevance and sufficiency of the evidence.

RH.9-10.8. Assess the extent to which the reasoning and evidence in a text support the author’s claims.

Range of Reading and Level of Text Complexity 

10. Read and comprehend complex literary and informational texts independently and proficiently.

RH.9-10.10. By the end of grade 10, read and comprehend history/social studies texts in the grades 9–10 text complexity band independently and proficiently.

WY: Social Studies

WY: Grades 9-12

Culture / Cultural Diversity

2. Culture/ Cultural Diversity

Students demonstrate an understanding of different cultures and how these cultures have contributed and continue to contribute to the world in which they live.

SS11.2.1 Students explain how various cultural influences impact society.

Time, Continuity & Change

4. Time, Continuity and Change

Students demonstrate an understanding of the people, events, problems, ideas, and cultures that were significant in the history of our community, state, nation and world.

SS.11.4.1 Students analyze the interactions among individuals and groups and their impact on significant historical events.

SS.11.4.4 Students explain how past events impact the present and the future.

People, Places & Environments

5. People, Places, and Environments

Students demonstrate an understanding of interrelationships among people, places, and environments.

SS.11.5.2 Students analyze how physical characteristics of the earth and human interactions with the environment have affected the development of societies, cultures, and individuals.

SS.11.5.3 Students demonstrate an ability to organize and process information about people, places, and environments.