Story of World Middle Ages: Complete 15 Wk Bundle: PPTs & Teachers Guide

This bundle includes a digital download of the full 14-week course: PPTs, complete syllabus & teacher guide aimed at enriching your learner’s understanding of The Story of the World Volume 2: History for the Classical Child: The Middle Ages, by Susan Wise Bauer. Designed for companion or independent study, I provide 15-22 slides per lesson with text specific discussion questions, appropriate cultural literacy terms, supplemental videos, writing topics, recommended literature and links to creative activities for your use. Week fourteen is reserved for final presentations and a Kahoot review quiz!

Week One: Rome- Governments, Influences, Rise and Fall; Anglo Saxons, Celts, Beowolf, Christianity, St. Augustine, monks, monasteries, Middle Ages literacy

Week Two: Constantine the Great, Constantinople, Holy Roman Empire, Justinian Code of Laws, Hagia Sophia, Gupta Dynasty, Buddhist monks, Ajanta caves, Australian aborigines, Maori

Week Three: Muhammed, Koran, Mecca, Hegira, 5 Pillars of Islam, Islamic Empire, caliph, Sinbad the Sailor, Rock of Gibraltar, Moors

Week Four: Sui & Tang Dynasties, Golden Age of China, Grand Canal, Ancient Chinese Inventions, Japan’s Yamato Dynasty, Moghul Dynasty of India: Babur the Tiger, Akbar

Week Five: Kingdom of the Franks- Clovis, Salic Laws, Charles the Hammer, Battle of Tours, Charlemagne, Vikings, Thor, Norse gods, Leif Ericson

Week Six: Alfred the Great, Bayeux Tapestry: Battle of Hastings, Haley’s Comet, Chivalry, feudalism, serfs, vassals, guilds, Japanese Samurai, shoguns

Week Seven: Jerusalem: The Holy City; Crusades, Saladin; El Cid, Reconquest of Spain; Richard the Lion-heart, Robin Hood, Magna Charta; Jewish Diaspora

Week Eight: Genghis and Kublai Khan; Travels of Marco Polo, Silk Road, Spice Route, The Forbidden City- Ming Dynasty; African Kingdoms: Ghana, Mali, Songhay; Mansa Musa, holy pilgrimage

Week Nine: Russians, Ivan the Great/ Terrible, tsars, Ottoman Turks, Fall of Constantinople, Suleiman the Magnificent, Black Death, Spain: Ferdinand and Isabella, Castle of Alhambra; Portugal: Prince Henry the Navigator; Navigation: astrolabe, compass, knots

Week Ten: Henry V; Battle of Agincourt, Joan of Arc, Battle of Orleans, Dauphin of France; Battle of the Roses: Lancasters, Yorks, Tudors; Queen Elizabeth, Shakespeare, Macbeth

Week Eleven: Columbus, De Gama, Vespucci, Magellan, Incas, Machu Picchu, Mayas, Aztecs, Tenochtitlan, Line of Demarcation, conquistadors, Cortes, Montezuma, Quetzalcoatl

Week Twelve: Gutenberg Press, William Tindale, Martin Luther, Henry VIII, Church of England, Council of Trent; Ptolemy, Copernicus, Galileo, Isaac Newton, Leonardo DaVinci

Week Thirteen: Walter Raleigh, Lost Colonies, John Cabot, Jacques Cartier, French Canada, Spanish Armada, Sir Francis Drake

Week Fourteen: Final Presentations & Kahoot Review