Tag: middle ages
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Viking Unit
Vikings are such an odd time period in history. As a culture, we are very obsessed with them. We’ve created so many movies and TV shows about them, and their actions did a lot to change our culture, but the individual Vikings do not do much to change our history. It makes it difficult to…
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Try your hand at leatherworking!
If you were to sit down and start listing historical trades, you’d probably say farmer, blacksmith, and then sit for a few minutes and come up with a tailor or maybe butcher. It fascinates me the number of trades common in “ye olde times” and absolutely necessary that we don’t think of as a trade…
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Henry V unit
Last summer our local theater company did a production of Henry V for Shakespeare in the park. We were out of town for several of the weeks the production was going, but we still made it three times. I would have gone more often, but that is hard to do when you’re out of state.…
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Age of Exploration Unit
Hey, this is Future Ticia of 2019. I originally wrote this post in 2016, a few years after the last time we studied the Age of Exploration and went through our Age of Exploration Unit for Elementary School (or middle school, since this was designed for my 5th-grade kids). Now my kids are in high…
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Joan of Arc unit
Ticia of 2019 here, I first published this Jan. 1 of 2016, but we went and saw Henry V last night, and this Joan of Arc unit is the only history lesson I have from the Hundred Years War. That is a tragedy of epic proportions that must be remedied, especially since we covered middle…