Assignments

World History:

We are working in groups of four to create a magazine.  Each group has been given a time period from the middle ages and they are to create a magazine highlighting some of the major events of the period.  Each student will be responsible for one 400-500 word article on a major event or person from their time period.  In addition to the major article each student is required to write a 150 word "feature" type article on an aspect of everyday life, a particular holiday celebration, scientific development, or form of entertainment.  Each student will also design an advertisement for a product or invention of the period.

The time periods and major topic choices are as follows:

400-750 A.D.

• The primacy of the Pope

• Benedictine Monasticism

• Pope Gregory the Great

• Emperor Justinian

• The rise of Islam/Muhammad

• The Germanic Kingdoms

• The Conquests of the Byzantine Empire

• Plagues of 400--750 

750-1000 A.D.

• Population and Environment of Europe 750--100
• Pepin
• Charlemagne
• Feudalism
• Otto I
• Viking Invasions
• Louis the Pious

1000-1100 A.D.

• Population and environment of Europe 1000-1300
• Manorialism
• The Reforms of Leo IX
• Pope Gregory VII and the Investiture Controversy
• William the conqueror and the Battle of Hastings 1066
• The first Crusade  1096--1099

1100-1200 A.D.

• Concordat of Worms
• St. Francis of Assisi
• Eleanor of Aquitaine
• Knighthood and Chivalry
• Phillip II Augustus
• Scholasticism
• Romanesque Architecture
• Henry the II and the Plantagenet dynasty

1200-1300 A.D.

• The Magna Carta
• Castles
• Pope Innocent III
• Louis the IX
• Edward I and the Greater Parliaments of 1295 and 1297
• Life in a Medieval City
• Thomas Aquinas
• Gothic Architecture

I hope to have an example of a completed magazine up soon.