Free Lesson Plans - A Medieval Christmas

A Medieval Christmas!
Many of the holiday customs we observe today originated in medieval Europe. So bake that gingerbread and pour hot cider into a punch bowl! Dress up as mummers, sing carols, and dance the jig! Extroverts will love the memory game, “The Twelve Days of Christmas.”
(Introverts would rather play chess.)

Too much religion for you, amigo?
Well, it can’t be helped.
The Middle Ages was the “Age of Faith.”
Unless your students grasp that, they’ll never understand the Reformation. Much less the Age of Reason.

Besides . . . All of the terms in this lesson appear on standardized tests. So if anybody gives you a hard time, make ‘em “eat humble pie.”

Are you teaching the Middle Ages?
FREE lesson “A Medieval Christmas!”.

How to teach World History using Hip-Hop

One day, we were talking to a teacher in upstate New York. Her students were musically inclined... and really into hip-hop. Yeah, yeah, we know. Hip-hop is notorious for its bad language, but not this one! We’ve found one hip-hop video that is OUTSTANDING for teaching genocide, a topic that’s difficult for anybody, much less a young person, to comprehend. Outstanding for several reasons: 1. It begins with the Armenian Genocide of 1915. Not many people know about that – unless you teach World War I. 2. It is an overview of all cases of genocide, 1965 to the present 3. It answers the question that appears on most standardized tests: “What do Armenia, Kosovo, Rwanda, and Darfur have in common?” Answer: They are all examples of genocide. Are you teaching World War I? Want see how we tackle the Armenian Genocide? Then take a look at this FREE lesson! p.s. The hip-hop video is on page 12.