Overview of The Dark Ages

Correlation to State Content Standards

7.6.3: Understand the development of feudalism, its role in the medieval European economy, the way in which it was influenced by physical geography.

Expected Student Outcomes (Objective)

Students will be able to:

1. Describe and explain the events that occurred in the Middle Ages.

2. Understand why the Middle Ages were known as the “Dark Ages.”

Literacy Standard

RH 7: Integrate visual information (e.g., in charts, graphs, photographs, videos, or maps) with other information in print and digital texts.

Anticipatory Set (4 min.)

Journal: 5 W's on the development of the English Chunnel.

Direct Instruction (10 min.) I DO…

SDAIE: Model: Installing App: Teacher will walk students in a tutorial on how to add KAMI to their chrome books and how to use the PDF writer app.

Guided Practice (10 min.) We Do…

SDAIE: TPS: Video Based Questions: This will be embedded as the class answers the VBQ’s once they have watched the clips. Students will complete sentence stems before watching the clips so they could just add the answer to the sentences.

Independent Practice (20 min.) You Do…

SDAIE: VBQ’s/QuickWrite: The Dark Ages: Students will watch a series of 10 clips that are followed with questions. As students watch the clips they will answer the questions on their assignment that is in Google Classroom. At the end students will determine if the Middle Ages in Western Europe deserve to be called the Dark Ages and why.

Homework.

N/A

Closure (3 min.)

1. Clean up.

2. Dismiss Class.