Gutenburg and the Writers of the Renaissance

Welcome to the First Day of Block Scheduling!

Since we have two hours together, we're mixing two lessons into one. So, there are two main ideas, 10 WWK and... I know you're already grumbling. :)

Daily Objectives:

• Journal: click here for journal
• Notes and MME
• Dante's Inferno
• Review
• GAME PROJECT

GUTENBERG AND HIS BIBLE

MAIN IDEA: Johannes Gutenberg invented the printing press which made books easy to print. Books and the ideas in them spread through Europe and got everyone thinking about different ideas.

• Moveable Type:  invented in China, later came to Europe.  One block has a raised symbol on it that can be combined with others on a frame to create a page of text.  The symbol can then be reused on another page.

• Printing Press:  1455, invented by Johannes Gutenberg, allowed for the quick spread of the written word and ideas.  Without the printing press, there could have been no renaissance or reformation.

• By 1500, there were printing presses in 250 European cities, and in just 45 years, more than 9 million books had been printed.  Before, every book had to be printing by hand, one letter at a time.
• Vernacular: written in the local language
• Petrarch: father of humanism and poet who was Italian
• Dante: wrote the Divine Comedy about a journey through the afterlife - Italian
• Machiavelli: wrote The Prince about how rulers should be feared, not loved - Italian
• Chaucer: wrote The Canterbury Tales about people on a pilgrimage - English
• Cervantes: wrote Don Quixote about a man who thought he was a knight - Spanish

LEFT SIDE: activity on the vernacular - see me in class.

If you're gone, watch the video:

Gutenberg and the Printing Press 14 minutes.

100 Years War

I have to apologize, I thought this was posted... but it seems to have disappeared....so let's try this again!

Daily Objectives:

• Journal click here!
• MME and Notes
• Movie Time: 
• Shooting a longbow
• Henry V's Band of Brothers Speech (Shakespeare)
• Battle of Agincourt music video
• IF YOU WERE GONE:
• Brief overview
• Agincourt
• Left Side: Picture Frame of Henry V (click here for Google Doc you can print - only need one half)

For the MME: click here to go to Google Docs.

Main Idea:  The Hundred Years War led to the extinction of knights because of the longbow. England and France became strong, unified nations.

WORDS WORTH KNOWING
Longbow:  a weapon that led to the extinction of knights. Deadly at long range, easier training, and less expensive.
 Battle of Crecy (France):  British longbow men defeat heavily-armored French knights.
Battle of Agincourt (France):  British victory with longbows. Famous, bloody battle fought by Henry V.
Nationalism: love and pride in one’s country

Causes
• French King dies without heir and English king lays claim.
• England and France want to increase trade.
• England wants a continental empire.

Outcomes:
• Feudalism, medieval knights become obsolete.
• Along with Schism and plague, 100 years war brings end to the Middle Ages.

Joan of Arc

NOTE: I'm out of the classroom today, but Mr. Morris is going to teach you some fantastic information about one of the coolest ladies ever, Joan of Arc.

Journal: click here for journal prompt

Main idea: Joan of Arc was a young French peasant who led the French army to victory in the Hundred Years War.

Then students took their own notes throughout the lesson. Important points to consider:

• Born in Doremey, France in 1412.
• Believed she was visited by God with visions on how to lead the people of France to victory 
• led successful military campaigns and which lead to Charles VII being crowned King of France.
• captured and tried as a heretic by the English. She was burned at the stake. She was never allowed to confess and was possibly poisoned during her time in prison. She was 19 when she died.
• She was originally charged with 70 crimes, including wearing men's clothing. 
• She couldn't read or write.
• 25 years after her death, the pope declared her innocent.
• Made a saint in 1922. 
• known as "The Maid of Orleans"

If you were gone: 

watch this biography (28 mins) and take notes.

Edible project ideas...

As many students have submitted proposals for edible projects, I did some googling and found some pretty awesome inspiration! Take a look at the cookie, cake, and other food related project ideas I've found!

A Globe Theater.... made out of CAKE!

From Cakebook Britain

A Gingerbread Cathedral with stained glass candy windows!

Gingerbread and candy cathedral found here.

Old fashioned Cathedral cookies or Stained glass cookies....

You could select a recipe from the Medieval Cookery and bring us a medieval feast!

Please realize we do have students with food intolerances, so check with me about your food based projects!!!

Another Schism?!

Students - I am out of the classroom today, but Mr. Morris will be teaching the material. If you are gone, as I know many are, please take copy of the notes, click the link for the left side activity and watch the videos down at the bottom of the page. Happy Spring Break, if I don't see you Friday!

JOURNAL: Click here for journal!

MAIN IDEAS AND WWK:

Main Idea:  The Catholic church lost power in the 1300s after being challenged by kings. The Church split for 39 years and never regained its former power afterwards.

Schism--split due to difference of beliefs

Pope Boniface--commands French king Philip IV to stop naming his own bishops (lay investiture)

Papal Bull--an order from the Pope that must be obeyed

What happens:

Philip arrests and imprisons Boniface, who dies

Philip names new pope and moves the church to Avignon, France.

Another pope is selected in Rome.  There are now two popes.

1414:  Council of Constance:  All three popes fired and a new one is named.

New men disagree with Church:

John Wycliffe--Englishman.  Believes humans only need Bible to get to heaven. Translates the Bible into the English vernacular.

John Huss--Czech priest who agrees with Wycliffe.  He is burned at the stake for heresy.

Left side:

Please print the following foldable on one sheet of paper (both sides are used) OR print into two and paste into notebook in an alternative way. Follow the directions and color the map.

If you were gone, watch the videos: 

Western Schism (4 min) (shows the map for the left side!)

John Wycliffe (2 min)

Jan Huss, Wycliffe, and the Papal Schism (15 min)

For the WORLD FAMOUS, LAUGH TIL YOUR EYES WATER MME by our very own Mr. Morris, click here.

The Norman Conquest and Rise of England

Daily Objectives

• Journal: (click here for prompt)
• Reading groups with skeleton notes: page 352 and top of 353
• Bayeux tapestry video
• Left side: Bayeux tapestry
• Stained Glass Window project

Notes:

In order to get all the info you need without making you write a million pages, I've done skeleton notes for today. Groups of 2-3 will read and fill in the skeleton notes. TAKE NOTICE: the notes are required and you WILL have test questions on them. 

MAIN IDEA:

England became united nation after the Norman Conquest 1066.

Words Worth Knowing (and definitions)

Celts:  settlers of Britain, spoke Celtic. Pushed to Wales, Scotland, and Ireland by invaders.

Romans:   conquered Britain in 50 AD and stayed till 400 AD.  Latin-speakers.

Vikings:  invaded England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland after the fall of Rome.  From Norway, Sweden, Denmark, and Iceland.

Angles and Saxons:  two ________________ speaking tribes who settled in England.  Angles became the base for the name __________________ (Angle-Land) and for the language of English (Angle-ish).

Normans:  _______________ speaking Vikings from ______________________, France who invaded in _______.  Norman means ___________________.

Normandy:  region in ____________ settled by Vikings who became known as _____________________________.

Edward the Confessor:  King of ____________________ who dies without ________________, causing a ____________________________________.

Harold Godwinson:  son of Edward's advisor and ____________________ to William, he ______________________________ with no blood ties to Edward.

William the Bastard (Later called William _____________________).   Norman leader and _____________ of Edward, he decides to claim the throne by  __________________________ across the English Channel.

Norman Conquest.  In the year ______________, William and an _________________army of men and horses attack with 4,000 ships and conquer England, claiming the throne for __________________________.

Battle of Hastings, 1066.  Battle where ________________ defeated ___________________ to claim the throne.

William declared _______________ was his _______________________________. William granted ________________ to __________ Norman lords. This is important because he __________________________________________________________________________. 

Bayeaux Tapestry--240-foot-long tapestry that is a visual storybook of the Norman conquest, embroidered by women hired by William after the conquest.

Left SIDE:

Three things you see in the tapestry or learned about it. (Notes style is your choice, but attach picture below)

1.

2.

3.

For extra credit: color the Bayeux tapestry as a way to get familiar and recognize the work. Cick to make bigger.

Watch the video on the Bayeux tapestry here.

IF YOU WERE GONE: you may check out a book to fill in the notes OR come in at lunch/after school to do this activity.