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History of the Middle Ages: 

A Sample Literature List and Assignments 

keyed to The Old World and America by Fr. Philip Furlong

When our family studied the Middle Ages the first time, we used The Old World and America as our base text and filled in with lots of outside reading and activities. The Old World and America is a Catholic textbook, written by Fr. Philip Furlong, and deals mainly with the time period commonly known as the Middle Ages.  It also contains valuable discussion questions and ideas for activities based on each unit.  This text is written for the 5th through 8th grader.

The assignment pages below are the format for the unit studies which we used.  We offer them as an example of how to put together a simple literature-based unit study.  We hope that this will assist you in planning your own Middle Ages history studies. Other textbooks which cover these same time periods include: The Old World's Gifts to the New by Sr. Mary Celeste (grades 3-6); The Founders of Freedom, reprinted by Neumann Press (grade 3-4); Christ the King, Lord of History by Anne Carroll (junior high/high school text); The Glory of Christendom by Warren Carroll (upper high school). 

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Units from the text which cover the Middle Ages:

The Age of Invasions

Successors of the Apostles

Great Kings

Lords & Serfs/Castles & Knights/Townspeople & Craftsmen

Order

Learning/Beauty

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The Age of Invasions
Text/Resource	Timeline Events	People
The Old World & America, pgs.120-131	476-Fall of Roman Empire	Alaric the Goth
	622-Mohammed makes Hejira	Mohammed
	732-Charles the Hammer stops Moslems at Tours	Charles Martel
		Pope St. Leo
		Atilla the Hun
Additional Reading		Additional Topics to Research
The Lantern Bearers  by Rosemary Sutcliff		Rise of the Catholic Church
The White Stag  by Kate Seredy		Islam
		Teutonic Peoples
		Angles and Saxons
Activities	The activities below are to be kept in a three-ring binder and done with each unit.
Review Questions	Choose end of chapter questions for student to answer either orally or written.
Research	Have student choose one topic from either timeline events, people, or additions topics to research.
Outline	Have student make an outline of researched topic.
Summary	Have student write a summary from the outline.
Write Paper	Write final draft.
Timeline	Add people and events to student's timeline.
Maps, Drawings, Charts	Draw, copy, or trace to add to student notebook.

 

Successors of the Apostles
Text/Resource	Timeline Events	People
The Old World and America, pgs. 135-143	529-St. Benedict establishes monestary at Monte Casino	St. Benedict
	598-St. Augustine sent to England	St. Augustine of Canterbury
		Pope Gregory I
		St. Patrick
		St. Boniface
		Sts. Cyril and Methodius
		John Sobieski, King of Poland
Additional Reading		Additional Topics to Research
Heroes of God's Church: St. Patrick by Fr. Mattimore	Patrick: Patron Saint of Ireland by Tomie de Paola	The Irish Conversion
St. Benedict by Mary Fabyan Windeatt
Augustine Came to Kent by Barbara Willard	Fingal's Quest by Madeleine Polland

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