Medieval Europe - 100 Years War - Henry V and Joan of Arc

The Young Oxford History of Britain & Ireland
Joan of Arc by Diane Stanley
Joan of Arc by Josephine Poole and Angela Barrett

Discussion:
Henry V - Battle of Agincourt, premature death
Henry VI - king of England and France (kind of)
Joan of Arc fights for Charles VII

Activity:
Reenactments
History journal

Medieval Europe - Richard II

The Young Oxford History of Britain & Ireland

Discussion:
Richard II - poll tax revolt
Conflicts with the nobility
Henry Bolingbroke - deposing Richard, becoming Henry IV

Activity:
History journal
Monarchy tree

Medieval Europe - 100 Years War - Origin and Early Conflicts

The Young Oxford History of Britain & Ireland

Discussion:
English holdings in France in 1330
Edward III and the Black Prince - claims to the French throne
Battles of Crecy and Poitiers - English victories

Activity:
History journal
Map study
Re-enactments
English succession activity

Medieval Europe - The Canterbury Tales - Tales II

Chaucer's Canterbury Tales by Marcia Williams
Read-aloud: The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer

Discussion:
Read several tales - social rankings, making fun of other professions/pilgrims, sense of humor

Activity:
Draw last 10 pilgrims
History journal

Medieval Europe - The Canterbury Tales - Tales I

Chaucer's Canterbury Tales by Marcia Williams
Read-aloud: The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer

Discussion:
Read several tales - discuss professions, descriptions of pilgrims

Activity:
Draw 10 more pilgrims
History journal

Medieval Europe - The Canterbury Tales - Geoffrey Chaucer

Chaucer's Canterbury Tales by Marcia Williams
Read-aloud: The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer

Discussion:
Chaucer's life
Origins of the tales
The prologue - meet the pilgrims

Activity:
Draw 10 of the pilgrims
History journal
Map/picture study (Canterbury)

Medieval Europe - Black Death - Spread and Mortality Rates

Medieval Medicine and the Plague by Lynne Elliot

Discussion:
How the plague spread
Rates of infection
Mortality, affect on burial customs

Activity:
Picture study
History journal
Map study

Medieval Europe - The Black Death - Origins and Types

Medieval Medicine and the Plague by Lynne Elliot

Discussion:
Origins of the Black Death
Types of infections

Activity:
History journal
Picture study (Oxford Illustrated History of the Middle Ages and Der Schatz des Amplonius)

Medieval Europe - The Papacy - Wandering Popes and the Avignon Papacy

Discussion:
Italian political rivalries
Instability in the Papal States
The Pope is forced to leave Rome and then Italy

Activity:
History journal
Map study

Medieval Europe - Marco Polo - Childhood and Early Travels

Marco Polo: The Boy Who Traveled the Medieval World by Nick McCarty

Discussion:
Marco Polo grows up in Venice
Marco's father and uncle travel throughout Asia and the Middle East
Why travel took so long back then

Activity:
History journal
Blank map of Europe and Asia (need to print it full size or this is pointless) - mark important stops on Niccolo and Maffeo's trip, and their route from Venice to Mongolia and back; learn/review important regions, rivers, and mountains in northern Asia and the Middle East

Medieval Europe - Frederick II

The Crusades by Timothy Levi Biel

Discussion:
Wars with popes/other entities
Centralization of government; efficient state bureaucracy
Crusade accomplishments through diplomacy

Activity:
History journal

Medieval Europe - Art in the 12th-13th Centuries

The Oxford Illustrated History of Medieval Europe
History of Western Art

Discussion:
Developments in style from post-Carolingian era to post-Dante
Symbolic representations in religious art
Recognizing provenance

Activity:
Field trip to the National Gallery of Art

Medieval Europe - Dante Alighieri

Read-aloud: The Inferno, ed. Mark Musa (skip the Florentine bits)

Discussion:
Life of Dante - general mess of Italian political states and the papacy
Divine Comedy - influences from Catholic theology and Scholastic physics
Influence

Activity:
History journal - draw a schema of the Inferno
Maps and Charts about the Comedy, Florence, Aristotelian science

Medieval Europe - Albertus Magnus, Thomas Aquinas, Bonaventure

Albertus Magnus - Bartholomew's World
Bonaventure - Bartholomew's World
The Treasury of Saints & Martyrs by Margaret Mulvihill
Loyola Kids Book of Saints by Amy Welborn

Discussion:
Albert as a scientist - experiments
Thomas Aquinas - major contributions
Bonaventure - mysticism and theology

Activity:
History journal
Take a look at Thomas' handwriting - (it's the second one, not the illuminated folio)

Medieval Europe - Scholasticism

Bartholomew's World - What is scholasticism?
Important Authors of the Scholastic tradition

Discussion:
Aristotle, Averroes, and Avicenna
Major western thinkers
Theories of motion, psychology, elements, humors

Activity:
History journal
Draw a map outlining where the interior senses are in the brain, see Algazel on the Interior Senses

Medieval Europe - St. Francis and St. Dominic

The Treasury of Saints and Martyrs by Margaret Mulvihill
Read-aloud: Francis and Clare: The Complete Works 
The Illustrated World Encyclopedia of Saints

Discussion:
Effects of the Crusades - poverty and the way of the cross
St. Francis and St. Dominic - radically different approaches to holiness

Activity:
History journal
Visit Franciscan Monastery

Medieval Europe - Robin Hood and the Charter of the Forest

Bartholomew's World - Robin Hood and Robert Grosseteste
Read-aloud: Robin Hood  by Sarah Hayes

Discussion:
The Saladin tithe and other effects of the Crusades
Royal forest system - Robin Hood as hero
Charter of the Forest

Activity:
History journal
picture study - Robin Hood in the media

Medieval Europe - Magna Carta

Bartholomew's World - Magna Carta

Discussion:
Limiting monarchial power
Due process of law
Establishment of individual rights

Activity:
History journal
Reading the Magna Carta

Medieval Europe and Medieval Middle East - The Crusades - Effects of the Crusades on Muslim and Christian States

The Crusades by Timothy Levi Biel

Discussion:
Financial difficulties of European states and citizens
Attitudes of Muslims towards Christians and vice versa
Exchange of information and culture, East and West
Trade routes, rise of trading cities, mercantilism

Activity:
History journal
Map study - trade routes, trading cities

Medieval Europe - Frederick Barbarossa and the Holy Roman Empire

The Crusades by Timothy Levi Biel

Discussion:
Investiture Controversy - weakening of German influence and power
Italian campaigns
"Holy" Roman Empire established
Third Crusade and death

Activity:
History journal
Map study
Picture study - Cologne Cathedral, reliquary of the three kings, Bust of Frederick