Title – Crusade Journal

By – Helen Venosdel

Primary Subject – Language Arts

Secondary Subjects – Social Studies

Grade Level – 6-9

Objective:

• After reading
  
  Queen Eleanor: Independent Spirit of the Medieval World
  
  by Polly S. Brooks, students will create a diary/travelogue of Eleanor’s journey.

Procedure:

• After completing Chapter 3 of the text (below), students will create a journal kept by a member of the crusade that includes:
  • Cover with title
    
  • Map of the journey with places clearly marked
    
  • Illustrations of people who made the journey
    
  • Detailed description of Antioch and Constantinople with illustration
    
  • “Artifact” like a cloth cross given by Abbot Bernard, a piece of the true cross from the Holy Land, wild flower collected in Antioch, an arrow head from Mt. Cadmos, etc.
    
  • At least three journal entries explaining the major difficulties, important events and lessons learned

Materials:

• 3-5 sheets of aged paper per student (students can “age” the paper themselves)
  
• A map of the Crusade route
  
• Various pictures of people of the time period
  
• Handout of weapons and armor
  
• Handouts of medieval names and occupations
  
• Supplemental books on Crusades
  
• Colored pencils
  
• Students will provide “authentic artifacts”

Resources:

• Internet:

  http://www.learner.org/interactives/middleages/clothing.html

  
  
  

  http://web.ceu.hu/medstud/manual/SRM/index.htm

  
  
  

  http://www.regia.org/food.htm

  
  
  

  http://www.kyrene.k12.az.us/schools/Brisas/sunda/ma/mahome.htm

  
  
  

  http://www.mainlesson.com/display.php?author=wilmotbuxton&book;=crusades&story;=clairvaux

• Books:
  
  World History Medieval to Early Modern Times
  
  – Holt text
  
  
  Medieval Civilization
  
  – Allyn and Bacon Inc.
  
  
  Medieval Times
  
  – TCM

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