Royal Shakespeare Company
RSC Activity Toolkit: The Merchant of Venice
Mercy! It's a wise teacher that knows their own students and what they need to appreciate Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice. A 28-page tool kit ensures that every scholar will play a part. The kit is divided into 20 sections, each of...
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Medieval Law and Order
In this English history worksheet, students examine the harsh punishments for breaking the law in Medieval England. Students complete the task of answering 6 questions based on the reading.
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Medieval Japan
For this social studies worksheet students find the terms related to Medieval Japan and the answers are found by clicking the button at the bottom of the page.
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Merchants and Craft Guilds
Students compare and contrast the craft guilds of the middle ages to the production of goods today. In this Middle Ages activity, students discuss the structure of craft guilds after they have read articles on the topic. Students conduct...
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Goods and Trade
Students examine the trade that took place in Medieval Times. In this Middle Ages instructional activity, students read and discuss the roles of the guild members, the town merchants, and the individuals in trading goods. Students make...
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The Middle Ages in Europe
Learners investigate what life was like during Middle Ages in Europe for nobles, merchants, and serfs. They examine economic and political feudal system, and explore how people lived, what conditions of their lifestyles made them...
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Economic and Social Changes in the High Middle Ages
Students investigate the economic and social changes that occurred in the High Middle Ages. They listen to a lecture and take notes, and in small groups compose a medieval charter and role-play its presentation to the class.
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Italian Renaissance
Fifth graders explore the Italian Rensissance in this six lessons unit. The prominent citizens, the ideas, values, art, philosophy, and literature of the are seen as a rediscovery of Ancient Greek and Roman times.
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The Renaissance
Get out a clean sheet of paper and get ready to take notes on the Italian Renaissance. Kids can easily follow along as you progress through each informative slide. They'll take notes on humanism, classical learning, city-states, and...
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The Late Middle Ages (850 to 1492 A. D.)
Students discuss what roles the clergy, nobles and peasants played during the late Middle Ages. They explain what led to the growth of trade and towns in Western Europe. Ultimately, students describe how kings in Western Europe built...
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Children's Crusade
In this geography activity, students read an excerpt about the Crusaders compromised of two of children. They use the map given to determine how far apart each army marched before reaching the Mediterranean Sea. In addition, students...
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A Common Thread
Sixth graders explore the Renaissance. In this Renaissance lesson plan, 6th graders study the culture and society of the middle ages. Students research the geography and climate of the times and discover how these affected agriculture.
Cave Creek Unified School District
Crusades and Culture in the Middle Ages
The Crusades sounds like a glamorous time period in the Middle Ages full of glory—but was it? Scholars find and review the truth of the Crusades' influence on the world through the resource. The study guides, separated individually by...
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The Black Death: 1347 - 1351
Grim and gruesome, the Black Death literally infects history with its social and political ramification. Your class will be positively agog over the details of the Plague, from its causes to its symptoms, and eventually to its grisly end...
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Early 18c Europe: Proto-Industrialism
Providing key information, visually appealing pictures, and thought-provoking questions, this series of slides presents your class with a study of 18th century Europe as it becomes increasingly urbanized. From peasants to princes, the...
Indiana University
World Literature: "One Evening in the Rainy Season" Shi Zhecun
Did you know that modern Chinese literature “grew from the psychoanalytical theory of Sigmund Freud”? Designed for a world literature class, seniors are introduced to “One Evening in the Rainy Season,” Shi Zhecun’s stream of...
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Sir Ralph and Lady Elizabeth Verney, 1547
In this Brass Rubbing activity, high schoolers read a lengthy passage about the Kings and Queens of England 1154-1603 and complete a 2 question quiz.
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SAT Editing in Context Practice Test 02
In this editing in context worksheet, students edit a rough draft of an essay. Students must identify errors and choose the best correction from five choices. Students have 12 minutes to complete 12 questions.
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Feudalism
Students have tournaments in teams after learning information about The Middle Ages. In this Middle Ages lesson plan, students learn that tournaments are mock battles, but that they will have these battles by answering questions in teams...
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Proverbs
Students examine the origins of proverbs and examine several examples. Then they create their own collection of existing proverbs. Later they write their own original ones and share with the class.