Today's Frame(s)

• How did the Crusades affect the relationship between Christians, Muslims, and Jews both in Europe and throughout the Middle East?

• What separated the "High Middle Ages" from the "Dark Ages"?

Chartres Cathedral, France

Today's Frame- Background to the Crusades

How did the Crusades unify Europe, including the Roman Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church?

Spread of Islam DBQ

Click here for the 2nd DBQ that you'll be writing about.  The documents from the syllabi were "warm-ups":

Click here for the DBQ rubric

Today's Frame: Islamic Expansion

How did Islam expand rapidly beyond the original "ummah" in Arabia (Mecca, Medina) and create an Arab Islamic civilization linking together North Africa, the Middle East, and south and central Asia within approximately 150 years?

Today's Frame- Origins of Islam

How did the Arabian merchant known ultimately as the Prophet Muhammad receive revelations that would form the last major form of monotheism: Islam?

Today's Frame(s)

• How was The Roman Catholic Church the dominant political and cultural force in the Middle Ages for much of Europe (Christendom)?

• How and why was feudalism the fundamental mode of political and social organization during the Middle Ages?

Primary Source Documents

Today's Frame- Christian Empires in Europe (Byzantines & Charlemagne)

• How did the Byzantine Empire unifiy the various Eastern and Slavic kingdoms and cultures into one Christian (Eastern Orthodox) Empire?

• How did Charlemagne and the Carolingians unify the various Germanic kingdoms into one large Christian (Roman Catholic) Empire?

The Haghia Sofia (Church of Divine Wisdom)- Constantinople/Istanbul

Travel Journals

Today we will begin an ongoing project: travel journals.  At least a couple of times per unit, we will be working on these.  Here's what you need to know:

1) Create a folder in Hapara called "Travel Journals"

2) These journals will be first-person accounts- think "historical fiction" about our curriculum

3) You will be responding to a prompt as you begin writing

Today's Prompt:

You are visiting an exact location in China.  You select the period: Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming, or Qing. If you have strong feelings about medieval Japan, you can select that period as well.  What happens to you in this location, who do you meet, and what's the outcome? Write a minimum of a three paragraph narrative or "scene" that tells this story in the first person. This scene should have a beginning, middle, and an end and should connect at least indirectly, to our course material. When you are done writing, please create or locate an image that corresponds to your journal.  At the top of your journal, please title it "Travel Journal 1" and the time period in parentheses.

You are open to use GoogleDocs. GoogleSlides, Prezi, Animoto, Powtoon, WeVideo- or any app you like as long as you respond to the prompt.  Good luck and happy trails!

Today's Frame & Activity

• How did the Mongols create and maintain the largest land-based empire in history?
• How was medieval Japan influenced by China and simultaneously fiercely independent as an island nation?

ACTIVITY:  In groups of two, look over notes from the past three readings.  Locate an image that represents a main idea about the Mongols or Japan.  Write a thesis statement about this image and its broader idea.

Finally, have one member of your group post the image and the thesis to our online community. You will have 20-25 minutes for this activity.

2nd quarter and Online communities

Now that we're in the 2nd Quarter, we will be using Google+ online communities. We will begin today in class.

Links to each section's community appear to the left under "important links" and will remain there.