Friday, April 22, 2011

April 22-25, 2011

Current Event: Music video of Sarah McLaughlin (donating to charities around the world)
DJ: Should religions and churches send missionaries to areas with different faiths, or is doing so a violation of those the missionaries are there to convert?

Objective:  What are the Crusades - why did they occur?  Identify the origins and consequences of the Black Death (including the Medieval Holocaust)

Class activities:  Discussion of the Crusades, including the Children's Crusades and the Black Death
Videos of the Black Death:  1) Gwen Stefani rendition of the Black Plague, 2) Coroner's Report of how the flea infects the human body
Video of the Crusades: 1) Knights Templar of the Holy Land
3 reading activities: 1) A Medieval Holocaust, 2) The Crusades against Saladin, 3) An Italian writer's perspective of the Black Plague

HOMEWORK:  Finish your three reading/worksheet activities if you did not finish in class

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