Textbooks

Please turn in your textbooks the next day of class. Be sure to give them to me directly, so I could have your sign a sheet of paper saying you returned it. Thanks.

Also, your "take home assessment" is due this week (Roby - Wednesday, May 21 and Lycee - Friday, May 23).

Medieval Banquet

Lycee Medieval Banquet
June 6, 3pm - 6pm

Roby Medieval Banquet
June 18, 8:30am - 12:30pm


*Everyone should be working within their group to get the required work done by the actual banquet date.

*Please keep in mind that you will also need to wear a costume the day of the banquet, so start putting together your persona costume!!!!

Textbook

Hello, everyone.

Be sure to bring in your textbook to our next class. We will not be using it anymore in class.

Also, we will begin working on the banquet prepartions next class. You will also get your "take home test", which will be due the following week.

Enjoy your LONG weekend!

Roby Medieval Project Due Dates

Due Dates

March 26 - first draft of bibliography
April 2 - 2nd draft of bibliography, cover page
April 9 - map, gift, 1st draft of biography
April 16 - final draft of biography, which includes the cover page, map and gift

You will have time April 2nd and April 9th to self and peer edit your work.

Medieval Banquet Links

Here are some web sites that you may find useful for your project. Some of the links will provide you with a starting point for you research.

Alhambra
http://www.greatbuildings.com/buildings/The_Alhambra.html


Maps
http://www.euratlas.com/

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/sbookmap.html


Medieval Asia
http://www.medievalists.net/articles/07052101.pdf

http://countrystudies.us/japan/6.htm

http://clioproject.org/files/PDF/Japanese_Empresses_Lesson.pdf


Medieval Banquet Profiles
http://sim.soe.umich.edu/worldreach/poot/alhambra/charef.html

http://www.middle-ages.org.uk/middle-ages-people.htm


Medieval Islam
http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/islam/index.htm


Medieval Women
http://www.womeninworldhistory.com/heroine.html

http://www.middle-ages.org.uk/middle-ages-women.htm

http://library.thinkquest.org/12834/text/bios.html

http://departments.kings.edu/womens_history/index.html


Middle Ages
http://www.teacheroz.com/Middle_Ages.htm

http://www.middle-ages.org./


Saladin
http://www.middle-ages.org.uk/saladin.htm

http://www.horus.ics.org.eg/en/History/SaladinandtheCrusades.aspx

Medieval Project

Roby
Your persona biography is due April 16th.

As a class, we will determine your class due dates on Wednesday, March 26th.


Lycee
Your persona biography is due April 18th.

Just a reminder, these are the due dates your class decided -
March 28 -title page, map, 1 written resource
April 4 - first draft of your bibliography (you need at least 3 sources)
April 11 - gift, 1st draft of personal biography
April 18 - the entire personal biography (including bibliography, gift and map)

Up Coming Information

I hope you are all well rested and ready to begin the final trimester of the 2007 - 2008 school year.

During the first week back from break, you will be taking the CTP4 test. This test will take both class periods.

Don't forget to turn in your permission slip for the field trip on March 19th at the Lycee. We will be watching a child labor video sponsored by the Human Rights Committee. We will be meeting at the Lycee flagpoles at 8:25am and you will need to be picked up at noon.

We are still trying to reorganize the trip to the Cluny Museum and the Institute du Arabe. At this point, we will most likely be going in April.

Also, you should begin researching your persona for the Medieval Banquet Project. I will give you more information about the project after break. FYI - Your persona paper is due the week before Spring Break.

Lycee Students-
Please, see me to set up an advisory appointment.

Lycee Middle Ages Test

Lycee

You test will now be on February 8, Friday. Please, have your reveiw sheet and your map completed by then.

Thanks. See you soon!

Monde du Arabe/ Moyen Age

Unfortunately, the trip to the Institut du Arabe and the Moyen Age Museum has been postponed. Don't worry; we will still go, but not until March or April. I will let you know when the new date has been scheduled.

While I am at MUN . . .

Roby

I know many of you will be on the ski trip the day of class, but you are still responsible to complete the Medieval Review Sheet and the map. All of you should have the map by now and Arianne said she would give all of you who were absent the review sheet.

Please, be ready for the Medieval Test on February 6th and have the completed map and review sheet with you too.

Lycee

While I am away, you will be completing a lesson about the differences between life in a medieval village and a town. You will do this the first hour of class and will then do the review sheet and map the second hour of class.

Your test is scheduled for February 8. Thsi date may changes, however. It depends on the field trip that we are still organizing. I will let you know.

Lycee, Witch Trial

This Friday, February 25, we will simulate the Bamberg Witch Trial. Be sure you are (the defense, prosection and witnesses) prepared. You should have your questions, opening and closing arguments ready. Also, you should have read the section on "religion" in your Medieval packet.

See you then!


Extra Credit

Answer the following question IN YOUR OWN WORDS and turn it in at the beginning of our next class for extra credit.

When and why did witch hunts fade from European society? Explain.

Parent Conferences

Just a reminder that parent/teacher conferences will take place on

Tuesday, February 5th for the Lycee campus

and

Wednesday, February 6th for the Roby campus.

Be sure your parents sign up for a meeting!

American Day (Lycee)

Lycee -

This Friday, January 11, is American Day. That means that your entire presentation must be ready to go by the time our first class meets at 9:50am.

We will meet in room #311 and then I will direct you and your "teacher" (myself, Mr. Lynch or Mrs. Hamery) to the appropriate room.

If you realize you need anything or if you need my help in any way, please let me know. Feel free to email me or drop me a note in my mailbox.

michelesilvestri@yahoo.com

See you Friday!!!!!


Extra Credit
Though protected by the USA Constitution, some Amerincas have been discriminated against and/or even persecuted because of their religious choice.

For extra credit, find a current event article in the USA where religious choice was not so "free". In other words, find a case in the USA where someone was discriminated and/or persecuted because of their religious choice.

Write a summary of the article. Be sure to explain how their first amendment right was violated.

The Trial of the Bamberg Witch (Roby)

Roby -

Please, be sure to know and understand your role by next Wednesday. You should have your questions all written out and you should be ready to counter question.

If it will help you win the case, feel free to research other information.

Extra Credit
Answer the following question IN YOUR OWN WORDS and turn it in at the beginning of our next class for extra credit.

When and why did witch hunts fade from European society? Explain.