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In History this week we did the Aztec’s among other things. My daughter Ariel decieded to do the diorama project of an Aztec home.
At our co-op we also did a little “lapbook” page if you will on Aztecs. Here’s my sample and one of the kids too.
 
 We are finishing our Mystery of History book II after taking a break to cover government and the election. Below is the mom’s page that I do for our co-op with all the links for all of you interested in Mystery of History, it includes the last four weeks of semester II. You can find the rest of the 2nd semester from my previous post, here.
Each week I’ll try and post some of the finished work like I did above so check back if you’d like to see samples.
MOH rest of book II planning
The activities in red are ones we are planning on doing during the co-op and the blue links are optional for more information on your own. NB stands for notebook page. I have most of the notebook pages pdf (they are turned blue within my red, hope that makes sense) and linked but there may be a few I’ve not got pdf’ed yet so check back after those weeks are done and they are likely to be there.
√11/13 lesson 73 Dante Alighieri, poet of the middle ages
73A Younger-write poetry in 3’s Notepage w/ paragraph at top on structure of Dante
73C Older-read and discuss Divine Comedy sections (discuss using guide below) NB page
http://www.archive.org/details/divine_comedy_librivox complete audio of Comedy in sections! Excellent! For older group listen to first 15 minutes of #1 selection Canto 1 +2
http://www.divinecomedy.org/divine_comedy.html
text of divine comedy (Longfellow, ilalian and others), timeline of life
http://danteworlds.laits.utexas.edu/utopia/index2.html study guide and audio in Italian of phrases (high school)
√11/13 lesson 74 Aztecs (The Mexica) All eat tortia’s by age and drink Aztec cocoa
ALL Folder book W/ cocoa recipe, sun calendar, codex (for codex cut 8 1/2 /x11 in half long ways then fold twice and refold accordian style, make "bark" construction paper covers) see picture above
http://home.freeuk.net/elloughton13/mexico.htm
great color pages, under teachnotes “worksheets”
http://www2.truman.edu/~marc/webpages/nativesp99/aztecs/aztec_template.html information on calendar
√11/13 lesson 75 100 year war
75B Read text of Battle of Poitiers by Jean Froissart, discuss/do summary
older-timeline NB page, younger-weapons worksheet/colorsheet
http://www.middle-ages.org.uk/battles-timeline-one-hundred-years-war.htm the many battles and key information
√11/20 lesson 76 The black death of Europe
FOCUS ON MAP, Video clips from CNN millennium
http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/plague.htm Eyewitness history account
Middle/Older- write an account after reading the eyewitness account by Giovanni Boccaccio
Younger- Listen to reading of account
√11/20 lesson 77 The Ming Dynasty of China and the Forbidden City
ALL- Map of city with statistics (999 rooms, 5 roof types etc…)
http://www.dpm.org.cn/English/c/c1/c3a.html actual palace museum site
http://www.world-heritage-tour.org/asia/china/ming-qing/beijing/map.html virtual map of places in forbidden city
√11/20 lesson 78 John Wycliffe, “Morning Star of the Reformation”
middle/older- NB page
ALL-Excerpts from Movie
younger-do reformer sheet
√12/4 lesson 79 Geoffrey Chaucer and the Canterbury Tales
Read some, older “selected tales”, list characters with modern equivalents
Younger-Make bag puppets and act out
middle/older-List of character and modern equivalents 79C#5
ALL-Read selections
√12/4 lesson 80 John Huss
http://www.exclassics.com/foxe/foxe106.htm trial of john Huss
middle/older NB page
younger-add Huss to reformers sheet see John wycliffe for link
√12/4 lesson 81 The life and death of Joan of Arc
update timeline from 100 yr war page
Younger 81A stained glass puzzle
Famous Men of middle ages reading on Joan
http://www.mainlesson.com/display.php?author=haaren&book=middle&story=joan
http://gardenofpraise.com/testb21.htm possible worksheet
http://gardenofpraise.com/ibdjoan.htm color sheet, song, puzzles
Older-tea stain and analyze dye letter from website in 81B
√12/11 lesson 82 The Inkas of South America
http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/channel/content/inca/
very cool inca mummy notational geographic video! Highly recommend.
all-try quinoa
younger/middle notepage with aylla (family tree), rope with notes, Tawantinsuyo
older mini rope bridge scene
√12/11 lesson 83 The Ottoman Turks Take Constantinople
younger names on links
middle/older link page, Ottoman info at bottom
middle –rolling brick on pencils demo
√12/11 lesson 84 Johannes Gutenberg Invents the Printing Press
middle/older books nb page
younger potato stamps
Famous men of Middle ages reading on Gutenberg
http://www.mainlesson.com/display.php?author=haaren&book=middle&story=gutenberg | 
