8th Grade Curriculum

Unit: Europe after the Fall of Rome (PDF - Printable Version)

Highlighted Questions - Thematic Essential Questions focused on during this unit.

Europe after the Fall of Rome Unit Website

 

GSTEQ

History Alive!

Medieval Times Textbook

Supplemental

Assessments

Standards*

1. Why do people live and move where they do?

 

Ch.1.1 Byzantium

Ch. 5.2 Rise of Cities

 

 

 

RIGSE: 5-1 – Many ways Earth’s people are interconnected

RIGSE: 5-2 – Interconnected World

RIGSE: 5-3 – Choices Interconnected world

RIGSE HP 2

Era 1 WH 1,2

Era 2 WH 1,2,3

Era 4 WH 5,6,7

Era 5 WH 1

2. Why do people live the way they do?

3.4 Mini-Dramas of Life in Medieval Europe

3.5 Comparing the Plight of Medieval Serfs with the Homeless Today

4.1 The Role of the Church in Medieval Europe

 

 

 

 

Tao’s Game on Salvation

 

RIGSE G&C 1-4
RIGSE HP 1-3

Era 1 WH 1,2

Era 2 WH 1,2,3,4

Era 3 WH 1,2,3,4,5

Era 4 WH 1,2,3,4,5,6,7

Era 5 WH 1,2

3. How and why do human societies organize the way they do?

2.2 Comparing the Justinian Code to Contemporary Law

3.1  Experiencing European Feudalism

3.2 The Development of Feudalism in Western Europe (Connection to Japan)

3.5 Comparing the Plight of Medieval Serfs with the Homeless Today

4.1 The Role of the Church in Medieval Europe

Ch 5.1 Feudalism – System for Living

Video: Engineering an Empire: Byzantine

Compare Justinian Code Law to RI Law (rather than CA or in addition to…)?

Tao’s Article on Holy Roman Empire

 

RIGSE – G&C 1-2, 4

Era 1 WH 2

Era 2 WH 1,2,3,4

Era 3 WH 1,2,3,4,5

Era 4 WH 1,2,3,4,5,6

Era 5 WH 1,2

4. How does technology affect people’s lives?

 

 

Video: Engineering an Empire: Byzantine

Video: David McCauley Cathedral

 

RIGSE – G&C 5

RIGSE – HP1

Era 1 WH 1,2

Era 2 WH 1,2,3,4

Era 3 WH 1,2,3,4,5

Era 4 WH 1,2,6

Era 5 WH 1,2

5. How has conflict and cooperation shaped human history?

 

 

 

 

 

 

Video: The Barbarians – Huns & Mongols (readings from Tao)

 

RIGSE – G&C 1,3,5

RIGSE – HP1,2,3

Era 2 WH 1,3

Era 3 WH 1,2,3,5

Era 4 WH 1,2,3

Era 5 WH 1,2

6. How has the quest for resources affected human history?

1.2 Traders and Invaders of the Roman Empire

2.1 Inside the Byzantine Empire

Ch. 5.2 Rise of Cities

 

Tao’s Game on Salvation

 

RIGSE – G&C 1,5
RIGSE – HP 1,2,3

Era 1 WH 1,2

Era 2 WH 1,2,3

Era 3 WH 1,2,3,5

Era 4 WH 1,2,3,4,5

Era 5 WH 1,2

7. How do we know what we know about human history?

 

 

Video: Engineering an Empire: Byzantine

 

RIGSE – HP 1,2,3

Era 1 WH 1,2

Era 3 WH 1,4

Era 4 WH 1,5,6

8. Why do civilizations rise & decline?

1.1 Mapping the Expansion of the Roman Empire

1.2 Traders and Invaders of the Roman Empire

1.3 Exploring the Reasons for Rome’s Fall

 

Ch.1.1 Byzantium

Video: Engineering an Empire: Byzantine

 

RIGSE – G&C 1,5
RIGSE – HP 1,2,3

Era 2 WH 1,2,3

Era 3 WH 1,2,3,4,5

Era 4 WH 1,2,3,5,6,7

Era 5 WH 1,2