Day Three Lesson Plan:

Kara Wenberg, 6th grade Social Studies, February 2014 Unit Title: In the Middle with You Lesson Title: Fedua-what? Context: The students just played a game about the Black Death and will wrap up this topic by looking at the nursery rhyme, Ring Around the Rosie. Students will discuss how this originates from the Black Death. Students will then move on to learning about the Feudal System and comparing it to the system within Martin Middle School. Plan Number: 3 of 10 Primary Instructional Objective and CCSS: Common Core: o 6.H.1- Use historical thinking to understand the emergence, expansion and decline of civilizations, societies and regions over time. o 6.H.2- Understand the political, economic and/or social significance of historical events, issues, individuals and cultural groups SWBAT: COG: Identify how the Feudal System during the Middle Ages applies to Martin Middle School AFF: Relate the hierarchy of the Middle School to the hierarchy of the groups during this time PERF: Draw their knowledge by filling out the blank flow chart Materials/Technology Resources Required: 1. Overhead 2. Computer 3. Doc Cam 4. Feudal System Pyramid example (teacher copy) 5. Feudal System Worksheet (students copy) 6. Ring Around the Rosie YouTube video 7. Ring Around the Rosie lyrics 8. Paper 9. Pens/pencils 10. Horrible Histories Feudalism YouTube video Time: 50 minutes Instructional Procedures/Steps: o Introduction (10 minutes): I will used this time to clear up any questions that the students had about their news articles that are due tomorrow that we did not address yesterday at the end of class.

o Activity (35 minutes): We will begin the activity portion of class by wrapping up the Black Death. To do so I will play the YouTube clip of Ring Around the Rosie. Students will have the lyrics* to the song to follow along. We will discuss how this originated from the Black Death. We will take about 10 minutes to do this activity. The next activity will be discussing Feudalism. Students will watch a brief video from Horrible Histories* about the Feudal System during the Middle Ages. Once they are finished I will put up a worksheet* with a pyramid on it with the rankings of different classes of people from the Middle Ages. Next to it there will be a blank pyramid. As a class we will discuss how the Feudal System would look like here at Martin Middle School. Students will brainstorm who goes in which level and why. This part of the activity will take the rest of the 35 minutes (25 minutes). o Debrief (5 minutes): Based on the class discussion of the Feudal System from the Middle Ages and what it would look like in our Middle School the Exit Ticket will be for the students to list one thing that they learned about the Feudal System. I will hand these back to them on Thursday. o Homework: Finish news article and be ready to turn them in when class starts tomorrow. Study vocabulary words for quiz on Monday. NOTE: Anything marked with an asterisk will be documented in the appendix for this lesson. Evaluation: Students will be evaluated on their comprehension through class discussion and class work. They will also be evaluated from their Exit Tickets. Accommodations: I will wear the special amplifier for the students with hearing impairments. Appendix for Materials for this lesson: A.

King and Queen Nobles/Lords Knights Peasants/Serfs

(Student Copy for Middle School Feudal System)

B. Song Lyrics for Ring Around the Rosie

(From: http://www.kidsongs.com/lyrics/ring-around-the-rosy.html) Ring around the rosy Pocket full of posies Ashes, ashes We all fall down Original Lyrics (taken from YouTube video) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TGxv5pFEzg Ring-a-ring oRosies A pocket full of posies A-tishoo A-tishoo We All Fall Down!

Day Four Lesson Plan:

Kara Wenberg, 6th grade Social Studies, February 2014 Unit Title: In the Middle with You Lesson Title: Charlemagne and Company Context: Students will have just finished learning about Feudalism on Wednesday. They will also be turning in their Black Death news articles today. Students will learn how to peer review each others work and answer questions pertaining to the work. As we move from this in class the students will be jumping back in time to learn about the Holy Roman Empire and Charlemagne. They will learn Charlemagnes importance and why the Holy Roman Empire fell, leading us to our topic, The Middle Ages. Students will also work more with geography. They will be looking at a map of Europe during the HRE and a map after it collapsed. Plan Number: 4 of 10 Primary Instructional Objectives and CCSS: Common Core: o 6.C&G.1- Understand the development of government in various civilizations, societies and regions o 6.G.1- Understand geographic factors that influenced the emergence, expansion and decline of civilizations, societies and regions (i.e. Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Americas) over time. SWBAT: COG: Evaluate their neighbors article on the Black Death and provide feedback AFF: Participate in reviewing the news articles PERF: Produce a map of Europe after the HRE collapse and recognize the difference from before and after

Materials/Technology Resources Required: 1. Computer 2. Overhead 3. Doc Cam 4. Map of Europe during HRE 5. Map of Europe after HRE (blank) 6. Pens/pencils 7. Paper 8. Black Death articles that are due 9. Stapler 10. PowerPoint Time: 50 minutes Instructional Procedures/Steps: o Introduction (15 minutes): Students will be given extended time for their Do Nows this morning. They will begin by getting out their Black Death articles that are due today. They will swap articles with their neighbor. The neighbors responsibility is to look over the article and answer the who, what, when, where, how, and why of the article. Once they are finished they are to hand back the answers and article to the reporter. A stapler will be passed around and the answers from their neighbor must be stapled to their article. I will collect these and then we will begin our lesson for the day. o Activity (35 minutes): Today we will begin talking about Charlemagne and the Holy Roman Empire. For this lesson we will look at a map of Europe during the HRE and then we will look at a map of Europe after the collapse of the HRE. This map will be blank and we will fill it out as a class*. We will then go through the PowerPoint on the HRE and Charlemagne*. o Debrief (0 minutes): There will be no Exit Ticket for class today due to time purposes. o Homework: Continue studying their vocabulary that they learned today for their quiz on Monday. NOTE: Anything marked with an asterisk will be documented in the appendix for this lesson. Evaluation: Students will be evaluated based on class discussion as we go through the PowerPoint and their filling out of their maps. Accommodations: I will wear the special amplifier for the students with hearing impairments.

Appendix for materials from this lesson: A. Map of Europe during HRE

B. Blank map that students will receive to fill out when discussing collapse of HRE

C. PowerPoint presentation

Charlemagne and the Holy Roman Empire

Holy Roman Empire

In 800 A.D., after coming to Rome to defend the Pope from invasion, Pope Leo III anointed Charlemagne as the emperor of the new Holy Roman Empire. As emperor, he worked with leaders to strengthen and protect the empire. He relied heavily on local counts, who solved problems in small geographical districts.

Charlemagne
These counts were instructed in their duties and responsibilities personally by Charlemagne, and they swore allegiance to him. Charlemagne then sent loyal authorities on tours of his empire to observe how loyal his subjects were to him, and how closely the counts were following the laws he had established.

Charlemagne

Collapse of the HRE

When Charlemagne died in the year 814 A.D., his son Louis the Pious took the throne Louis was not a good leader When Louis died, his 3 sons fought over who would take control of the Empire

Collapse Continued
After several years of civil war, which greatly weakened the empire, the three brothers signed a treaty in 843 A.D. This divided the empire into three equal pieces. Louis the German took control over most of what is now present day Germany. Charles the Bald took control of what is present day France Lothair took the land in between the two, stretching from the North Sea down into Italy. Lothair retained the title of emperor of the Holy Roman Empire since Rome laid within his territory.