History Odyssey: Middle Ages Lev 3

From Attila the Hun to Elizabethan England, Middle Ages Level Three is a complete one-year curriculum guide that combines history with literature, world geography, and writing activities. Students engage in an advanced study of events and people during the middle ages including monasticism, the Vikings, spread of Islam, the Crusades, the Dark Ages, feudalism, early America, African and Asian dynasties, and the Renaissance. This comprehensive course covers the successes and failures of civilizations in the Middle Ages from all parts of the world such as the Arabs, Normans, Byzantines, Mongols, Aztecs, Hapsburgs, Tudors, and many others.

Middle Ages Level Three is a student guide that provides step by step lessons to teach world history from 500 to 1600. Level 3 History Odyssey guides are written to be used independently by students with the parent/teacher assisting when necessary with lessons and assessing the student’s completed work. Middle Ages Level Three does not require an answer key due to the subjectivity of the assignments that encourage critical thinking (i.e. there is rarely any one correct answer). Answer keys to map work are found in the main spine (The New History of the World).

Literature and writing?instructions and assignments found in the course include how to write a thesis statement, defining epic literature, essay writing, poetry and literary analysis, logic and rhetoric as applied to literature and history readings, producing critical biographies, advanced outlining of history readings, and more.

Critical thinking with history studies found in this course include identification of connections and cause/effect relationships, compare and contrast of civilizations and religions in the middle ages, timeline analysis, thorough analysis of primary sources including historical speeches and historical political writings, and identification of connections between geography and history through extensive map work.

This guide includes: -26 middle ages blackline maps -Worksheets -Recommended resource list 145 detailed lessons covering: -Literature -Writing -Map work -Timeline instructions -Research