Diary+Project

Medieval Diary Entries:
__**STEP 1: Prologue**__ Write a background story for your character


 * 1) Choose a place to begin your unit writing: A word document, wiki, or paper (save your document as Middle Ages Diary or Story)
 * 2) Choose and name a character that would have been present during the middle ages.
 * 3) In a short story describe your character, origin, clothing, social-class, job, family, etc...

**Demonstration of your understanding of the event, and period should be portrayed through your diary entry, or your story.**

 * For each event you must do research to gather a firm understanding: text pages have been listed, but it is expected that you find other credible sources. (site your sources in a reference page)**

**Each entry, or chapter must give insight to the following bullets:**
1. Life after the fall of Rome: Describe your life after the fall of Rome (narrative) 2. Your life during fight for power King Henry vs. Pope Gregrory (your viewpoint on the conflict) (which side are you on) (260-263) Dinner conversation 3. Your life during the Crusades-(264-268)- discuss with relative in the crusade
 * Explanation of the event through your diary entries, or your story, NOT a boring definition!
 * How it affected your life? Again, through your diary entries, or story, do NOT write," It affected my life by ..."
 * Vikings
 * Need for protection
 * fiefs
 * Feudalism
 * Manors
 * Pope
 * God's Representative
 * Papal Bull
 * Excommunicate
 * Alliance and warfare
 * Holy Roman Empire
 * Authority
 * bishop
 * Pope Leo IX
 * Great Schism
 * Orthodox Church
 * Roman Catholic Church
 * **Emperor Henry IV**
 * **Pope Gregory VII**
 * Excommunicate
 * Forgiveness
 * Compromise
 * Holy Land
 * **Muslims**
 * **Christians**
 * **Palestine**
 * **Pilgrims**
 * Pope Urban II
 * Call to Arms
 * Crusaders
 * First Crusades
 * Peasants
 * Second Crusades
 * Third Crusades
 * King Richard I
 * Saladin
 * Fourth Crusades
 * Other Crusades
 * Reasons for Failure
 * Effects of Crusades-on your character

4. Christian Church and your life (269-275) visit a monk or monastery
 * clergy
 * religious order
 * Francis of Assisi
 * friars
 * Gothic Architecture
 * Thomas Aquinas
 * natural law

5. Your reaction to the Magna Carta (276-277) celebration
 * Magna Carta
 * King John
 * Effects
 * Changes after the Magna Carta
 * Parliament

6. Your reaction to the 100 year war (278-279)
 * England
 * France
 * Joan of Arc
 * New Weapons
 * Nationalism
 * Results

7. How the Black Death affected your life (279-280)
 * Central and Eastern Asia
 * Fleas
 * Traders
 * Plague
 * Deaths
 * Results

8. Take a visit to Spain (heresy, Reconquista, Spanish Inquisition) (282-285)

 * Reconquista
 * Heresy
 * King Ferdinand
 * Queen Isabella
 * Spanish Inquisition
 * Discrimination of Jews

9. eulogy / epilogue (What is happening in Europe after the Middle Ages?)
__**STEP 3**__ Documentary Screencast (How do I make a SCREENCAST?)

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