April 21, 2025
Correlation to State Content Standards
7.6.1: Study the geography of the Europe and the Eurasian land mass, including its location, topography, waterways, vegetation, and climate and their relationship to ways of life in Medieval Europe.
Expected Student Outcomes (Objective)
Students will be able to:
1. Analyze how political instability and the dangerous nature of medieval Europe led to the creation of feudalism.
Common Core Literacy Standard
RH 2: Determine the central ideas or information of a primary or secondary source; provide an accurate summary of the source distinct from prior knowledge or opinions.
RH 4: Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including vocabulary specific to domains related to history/social studies.
WHST 4: Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose and audience.
WHST 9. Draw evidence from informational texts to support analysis reflection, and research.
Anticipatory Set (5 min.)
Daily Journals: Students will work on their starter based on "This Day in History" by reading a chunked section and placing the sentences in or of CLAIM, STATEMENT, EVIDENCE, and CONCLUSION.
Direct Instruction (10 min.)
SDAIE: Model/Direct Teach/Video Clip/Table Talk: Feudalism Setting the stage: Teacher will provide a mini lecture that will set up the visualization of how Western Europe has changed since the fall of the Roman Empire. Teacher will provide a video clip from the opening scene of the Walking Dead to compare the collapse of civilization and will be asked how they plan to survive such an event.
Guided Practice (10 min.)
SDAIE: TPS: GeoChallenge: Medieval Europe: Teacher will go over the answers to the Map skills assignment and go over the essential question.
Independent Practice (20 min.)
SDAIE: Metacognition/Book to Paper: GeoChallenge: Medieval Europe: Students will complete a map skill challenge where they will label the new size of the Roman Empire, Papal states, bodies of water, and continents. Students will answer an essential question that has the recall the old Roman Empire and explain how Europe has changed after the fall of Rome.
Homework.
EdPuzzle: Middle Ages due by Friday at 5 p.m.
Closure (5 min.)
1. Clean up.
2. Exit Question
3. Dismiss Class.
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