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Make Your Own…
A B C Book
About the
Middle Ages
Katie’s Homeschool Cottage
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How To Use Your Alphabet Pages
Making an alphabet book can be fun for all ages. The younger ones in your family
can make them simple, while your older ones can make theirs more complex. Some types
of alphabet pages are made so that you can color them in and decorate them; the other
already has some coloring. There are wide lines and more narrowly spaced lines to suit
different age levels.
We recommend that if you want to illuminate your pages like those in the Middle
Ages, you decorate them with colorful clip art found on the web, sparkly glitter pens,
paint, and/or craft jewels.
These pages can be used during or after your study of the Middle Ages to research
or review and write about what you have learned during your study. They can also be
used as an activity to complete after reading about monks and illuminations during this
time period, or after reading a book such as The Door in the Wall by Marguerite De
Angeli, in which monks illuminating Bibles is included.
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After you have completed a notebooking page for each letter of the alphabet,
place a piece of paper in the front and the back to create a cover and a back cover for
your book. If you want to get very creative, you can use brown craft paper or a paper bag
after you have wrinkled it up and pressed it out for your cover. Or, you can seep a tea
bag, squeeze a bit of the excess water from it, and rub it all over your paper to create your
own parchment- looking paper.
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Decorate the cover with jewel tone colored gel pens and glitter pens, colorful
stickers, and craft jewels. Using tapestry thread and a tapestry needle, sew the pages
together to create a binding for your book, similar to the method used by the monks of
this time. You will have a lovely keepsake of your studies for purposes of review and for
your student portfolio.
A list of recommended topics to write about for each letter of the alphabet is
included on the following pages. Not every topic is included; you can use your own in
place of some of the ones we have suggested to match your child’s interests and studies.
Topics include those terms, people, or events from the early to the late middle ages.
Those topics that border the reformation and the renaissance time period (Gutenberg,
Galileo, etc.) have been left out and will be included in our Make Your Own ABC Book
of the Renaissance.
Here are a few good websites to help you with some of your research:
A Unit Study of the Middle Ages from FunSchool
http://www.easyfunschool.com/article1010.html
Social Studies for Kids
http://www.socialstudiesforkids.com/subjects/middleages.htm
Mr. Donn’s Middle Ages
http://worldhistory.mrdonn.org/middleages.html
Recommended Topics for Each Alphabet Page
A
Art
Architecture
Angles
Anglo-Saxon
Augustine
Alfred the Great
B
Bubonic Plague
The Bible
The Bayeux Tapestry
Battle of Hastings
Black Death
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Crusades
Coat of Arms
Code of Chivalry
Chaucer
Canterbury Tales
Charlemagne
Charles the Hammer/Charles Martel
Clovis
Castles
Cathedrals
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Donatello
Dante Alighieri
Divine Comedy
The Dauphin/Charles VII
E
El Cid
Ethelbert
Eric the Red
Edward the Confessor
F
Feasts
Fra Angelico
Filippo Brunelleschi
Francesco Petrach
Feudalism
Flying Buttresses
G
Gregorian Chants
Great Doomsday Book
Guilds
Goths/Gothic
Gentry
Giovanni Cimabue
Giotto
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Heraldry
Hanseatic League
King Henry II
King Henry III
King Henry V
King Henry VI
Hundred Years’ War
Hagia Sophia
Harold of Wessex
J
Justinian/Code of Justinian
Jousts
King John
Joan of Arc
Journeyman
K
Knights
Koran
The Keep
King Arthur
Kublai Khan
L
Leif Ericson
King Louis IX
Leo Battista Alberti
Lancelot
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Inquisitions
Illuminations
Indulgences
Ivanhoe
Ivan the Great
Ivan the Terrible
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Marco Polo
Magna Charta
Minstrels
Monks
Monasteries
Medieval
Middle Ages
Muhammad
N
Norman Conquest
St. Nicholas
O
Ottoman Turks
Ottoman Empire
Ostrogoths
Q
Quillons
Quatrefoil
Quarrel
Quarter
Quitclaim
R
Richard the Lion-hearted
Robert the Bruce
Roger Bacon
King Richard I
King Richard II
Robin Hood
Roland
S
Saxons
Scriptorium
Silk Road
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Pepin the Short
Peasants’ Revolt
Parchment
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Portcullis
St. Patrick
Pilgrimage
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Saladin
Scale Armour
Serf
Squire
T
Tapestries
Thomas Aquinas
Thomas Becket
Traders
Templars
Tithe
Trebuchet
Trefoil
Truss
Turret
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Visigoths
Vikings
Vassal
Vault
Vicar
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Pope Urban II
Undercroft
Usury
W
William the Conqueror/William of Normandy
War of the Roses
William Wallace/Braveheart
William Tell
X
Pope Gregory X (this is the only term I could find for X. If you can find another, I
commend you!)
Y
Yard-land
Yeoman
Yoke
Yett
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Zupan
Zigzag (architecture term)
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