Nash-Rocky Mount Public Schools 6th Grade Curriculum Map 2015-2016
Unit 4: Middle Ages and East Asian Civilizations
Unit 4
4th Quarter (9wks)
Essential Standards
Topics
Concepts
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6.H.1, 6.H.2, 6.G.1, 6.G.2, 6.E.1, 6.C&G.1, 6.C.1
6.H.1 Use historical thinking to understand the emergence,
expansion and decline of civilizations, societies and regions over
time.
6.H.2 Understand the political, economic and/or social significance
of historical events, issues, individuals and cultural groups.
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.
6.G.2 Apply the tools of a geographer to understand the
emergence, expansion and decline of civilizations, societies and
regions.
6.E.1 Understand how the physical environment and human
interaction affected the economic activities of various civilizations,
societies and regions
6.C&G.1 Understand the development of government in various,
civilizations, societies and regions.
6.C.1 Explain how the behaviors and practices of individuals and
groups influenced societies, civilizations and regions.
Essential Content
The Rise of Europe
Early Middle Ages-medieval period was a time of conflict in
Europe;
Invaders (Huns, the Avars, and the Germanic –Franks tribes)
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Middle Ages
(Rise of Europe)
Geography
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High Middle Ages
Continuity & Change
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Byzantine Empire
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China
Rights &
Responsibilities
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Korea
Cultural Expression
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Japan
Religion
Conflict
Government
Social Structure
Innovation/Technology
Quality of Life
Vocabulary/
Key Historical Figures
geography, location, place, movement,
human environment interaction, pope, crusade
Gothic, feudal system manor, lord, fief, vassal
serf , noblewoman, knight
destroyed communities in Europe.
Charlemagne’s Empire, blended Germanic, Christian, and Roman
cultures
Feudalism and the Manor Economy- political and social system
controlled medieval life; under feudalism, roles of people were
determined by their places in society; fiefs, vassals, manor, serfs
Role of noblewomen; Eleanor of Aquitaine queen of France and
England
Medieval Church played a vital role in medieval life; secular,
excommunicated; church reform efforts
Economic expansion and change during the High Middle Ages;
Europe’s economy grew, cities and towns expanded, rise of middle
class
Agricultural revolution, commercial revolution
England and France – Kings increase their power, Magna Carta
Struggles between emperors and popes, crusades brought
changes and caused Europeans to learn more about the Middle
East and Asia;
Improved economic and political conditions led to a revival of
learning during the High Middle Ages
Laymen, Romanesque, gothic, flying buttresses,
Late Middle Ages was a period of decline marked by disease,
corruption, and war, 100 years war, bubonic plague
Byzantine Empire and Russia – eastern cities became a rich
center of world trade; Eastern (Greek) Orthodox Church became
religion of the East; Emperor Justinian expanded the Byzantine
empire, erected grand buildings, and established a code of lawsJustinian Code, which influenced legal thinkers for 100s of years
Byzantine civilization blended Christian beliefs with Greek science,
philosophy, arts, and literature; expanded Roman engineering and
law; Ottoman Turks conquered Constantinople;
Rise of Russia and shaping of Eastern Europe; Mongols, Ivan the
Great, Ivan the Terrible, Ethnic diversity contributed to varied
Eleanor of Aquitaine, nation-state, secular
Monastery, convent, monk, nun, saint, cathedral
Excommunicated, laymen, commercial revolution
agricultural revolution, pilgrimage, guilds, heriditary
monarch, apprentice, Parliament, journeyman,
charter
Magna Carta, emperor,
Romanesque, Flying buttresses
Bubonic plague, Byzantine Empire, Constantinople
China
Tang dynasty
Song dynasty
Tributary states, gentry, Confucius, pagoda
Legalism, Daoism, Rudder, acupuncture
Han China, Qin Shi Huangdi -1st Emperor)
Great Wall, Porcelain
Dictatorship - Genghis Khan, Mongol Empire
Silk Road, Yuan dynasty, Ming dynasty, Zhou
dynasty
Korea, plateau, dynasty, mandate of heaven
Ancestor, oracle, bureaucracy, civil service,
scholar, isolationism
Japan, archipelago, tsunamis
Ring of Fire, Yamato clan, Heian Period, shogun
Daimyo, samurai, Haiku, kabuki
Anarchy - (the earliest civilizations did not have
established governments. Ex: Ancient China - Lao
Tzu “non-rule”
Modern connections: Current government systems
Scientific method, gravity, Renaissance, Reformatin,
annul, expelled, predestination, indulgences, Martin
Luther, John Calvin, Leonardo da Vinci,
Michelangelo,
cultural traditions of Eastern Europe; Hungary and Serbia, Slavs,
Balkans, Poland
Achievements of Early civilization in China; location is
isolated from rest of world; Huang He and Yangzi River
Valleys; Shang dynasty, clans Mandate of Heaven dynasty
cycle; class system;
Spread of civilizations in East Asia: Golden Ages of China, The
Tang and the Song dynasties restored culture and prosperity in
China; social classes under the Tang and Song dynasties;
tributary states, gentry, pagoda, porcelain; The Mongol and Ming
Empires-Genghiz Khan, Kublai Khan, civil service system;
Confucian learning ; advances in arts, literature
Korea – culture/history linked closely to China and Japan
Emergence of Japan, archipelago, tsunamis, adapting Chinese
ideas, but remained free of Chinese control; Japan’s Feudal Age –
shoguns military rulers who dominated japans society during
feudal times; daimyo, samurai, kabuki; feudal society in Japan,
class structure
Renaissance in Italy- time of creativity and change in Europe,
golden age of literature, arts, science; humanism. Artists of the
Italian Renaissance; printing press; Protestant Reformationpredestination, indulgences, Martin Luther, John Calvin, Scientific
Revolution
Resources
Ancient River Valley Civilizations
https://php.radford.edu/~vga/?page_id=3987
Mr. Moore's Website http://www.mrmoore.net Middle Ages Unit
Magna Carta (Medieval)
Middle Ages Unit
Hist Doc PDF Document
Bishop of Chartres (Medieval)
Middle Ages Unit
Hist Doc PDF Document
Maroo of the Winter Caves (Nordic)
Vikings Hist Doc PDF Document
Video David Macauley's "Cathedral" media.nclive.org/play_video.php?vid=465
Middle Ages Unit
NCWiseOwl PBS Videos (30 minutes)
Video David Macauley's "Castle"
media.nclive.org/play_video.php?vid=467
Middle Ages Unit
NCWiseOwl PBS Videos (34 minutes)
Video "Gothic Cathedrals"
media.nclive.org/play_video.php?vid=507
Middle Ages Unit
NCWiseOwl PBS Videos (54 minutes)
The Black Plague
www.themiddleages.net/plague.html
Middle Ages Unit
Info, Graph/Chart deaths over time, percentages by country?
The Black Plague map of movement over years
http://althistory.wikia.com/wiki/The_great_black_death
Middle Ages Unit
movement, change over time
Lesson Plan Ideas: Vikings
www.readwritethink.org/classroom-resources/lesson-plans/viking-voyagers-navigating-online-919.html?tab=4#tabs
Vikings
4-day lesson plan
"Hammer of Thor"
Norse Myth
PDF Document **still to scan/save/share
Mythology of Norse Lands
http://teacher.scholastic.com/writewit/mff/norseland.htm
Norse Myth
Background Information
Spotlight Video: "The Early Middle Ages"
http://www.glencoe.com/video_library/index_with_mods.php?PROGRAM=9780078750472&VIDEO=-1&CHAPTER=15
Spotlight Video: "Feudalism"
http://www.glencoe.com/video_library/index_with_mods.php?PROGRAM=9780078750472&VIDEO=4121&CHAPTER=15
Spotlight Video: "Kingdoms and Crusades"
http://www.glencoe.com/video_library/index_with_mods.php?PROGRAM=9780078750472&VIDEO=4122&CHAPTER=15
Spotlight Video: "The Church and Society"
http://www.glencoe.com/video_library/index_with_mods.php?PROGRAM=9780078750472&VIDEO=4123&CHAPTER=15
Spotlight Video: "The Late Middle Ages"
http://www.glencoe.com/video_library/index_with_mods.php?PROGRAM=9780078750472&VIDEO=4124&CHAPTER=15
SlideShare
www.slideshare.net/gsill/middle-ages-dbq
Middle Ages Unit
INTRO TO DOC BASED QUESTIONS
DBQ accompanies SlideShare intro
http://www.whiteplainspublicschools.org/cms/lib5/NY01000029/Centricity/Domain/353/DBQ%20Middle%20Ages.pdf
Middle Ages Unit
DBQ Labels for the Middle Ages
Life during European Middle Ages
http://portal.bentonvillek12.org/tgeske/Lists/Calendar/Attachments/100/Middle%20Ages%20DBQ.pdf
Middle Ages Unit
DBQ
Text Eastern World Chapter 20
Video: "1421: The Year China Discovered America"
http://media.nclive.org/play_video.php?vid=336
PBS Video NCLive
Zhang He's sailing travels (115 min) Video: "Dragon Science"
http://media.nclive.org/play_video.php?vid=370
Mummies of China (Scientific American Frontiers) Mr. Moore's website
www.mrmoore.net
DBQ
China Unit
Rivers of Ancient Civilizations PDF Document
DBQ -- with scoring guide
Confucius
PDF Document
DBQ
United Streaming "Anyang: China's Bronze Age"
United Streaming "China's First Dynasty"
United Streaming "China's Great Wall"
United Streaming
"Journals Through History: Ancient China: Contributions to the World"
United Streaming
"Culture and Math (Audio Description Version): The Chinese"
Spotlight Video: "China's First Civilizations"
http://www.glencoe.com/video_library/index_with_mods.php?PROGRAM=9780078750472&VIDEO=-1&CHAPTER=7
Spotlight Video: "Life in Ancient China"
http://www.glencoe.com/video_library/index_with_mods.php?PROGRAM=9780078750472&VIDEO=4095&CHAPTER=7
Spotlight Video: "The Qin and Han Dynasties"
http://www.glencoe.com/video_library/index_with_mods.php?PROGRAM=9780078750472&VIDEO=4096&CHAPTER=7
Spotlight Video: "Chinese Society"
http://www.glencoe.com/video_library/index_with_mods.php?PROGRAM=9780078750472&VIDEO=4111&CHAPTER=12
Paper, Language (pictograms, calligraphy)
Spotlight Video: "The Mongols in China"
http://www.glencoe.com/video_library/index_with_mods.php?PROGRAM=9780078750472&VIDEO=4112&CHAPTER=12
Spotlight Video: "The Ming Dynasty"
http://www.glencoe.com/video_library/index_with_mods.php?PROGRAM=9780078750472&VIDEO=4113&CHAPTER=12
Rise and Fall of the Mongol Empire
Sample Unit Plan
http://ebookbrowse.com/ap-dbq-jpanese-and-european-feudalism-doc-d139722098
Middle Ages Unit
Feudalism DBQ Europe vs. Japan
Spotlight Video: "Life in Medieval Japan"
http://www.glencoe.com/video_library/index_with_mods.php?PROGRAM=9780078750472&VIDEO=4119&CHAPTER=14
Spotlight Video: "Early Japan"
http://www.glencoe.com/video_library/index_with_mods.php?PROGRAM=9780078750472&VIDEO=4117&CHAPTER=14
Spotlight Video: "Shoguns and Samurai"
http://www.glencoe.com/video_library/index_with_mods.php?PROGRAM=9780078750472&VIDEO=4118&CHAPTER=14