DOCUMENT RESUME ED 437 294 SO 030 765 AUTHOR Serota, Laurie The Crusades and Islam. Fulbright-Hays Summer Seminars TITLE Abroad, 1998 (Israel and Jordan). SPONS AGENCY Center for International Education (ED), Washington, DC. PUB DATE 1998-00-00 NOTE 182p. PUB TYPE Classroom Guides Teacher (052) EDRS PRICE MF01/PC08 Plus Postage. DESCRIPTORS Area Studies; Curriculum Development; *Curriculum Enrichment; Foreign Countries; Global Education; Grade 4; Intermediate Grades; *Islam; *Medieval History; *Social Studies; Student Educational Objectives; *World History Core Knowledge Sequence; kCrusades; Europe; Fulbright Hays IDENTIFIERS Seminars Abroad Program; Middle Ages; Middle East ABSTRACT These two mini-units are designed to supplement the areas of study dictated by the Core Knowledge Sequence, a content-rich curriculum used in the educator/curriculum developer's school. The mini-units fall in the middle of a 6-month-long study of the Middle Ages and incorporate the depth of content required to support the larger unit on the Middle Ages. The units include appropriate fourth-grade skills and interdisciplinary connections. The first mini-unit on the Crusades contains five lessons, each of which lists educational objectives for students, study procedures, and evaluation procedures. The unit contains a 21-item bibliography and a list of videos and other resources. Appended are comprehension questions, poems, and informational material. The second mini-unit, Islam, contains the same number of lessons with the same objectives and procedures. This unit contains a 20-item bibliography and a list of videos and resources. Appended are a vocabulary list, comprehension questions, a list of English words of Arabic origin, and informational materials. (BT) Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made from the original document. he Crusades and Istatri. U S. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION Offic'e of Educational Research and Improvement EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES INFORMATION CENTER (ERIC) This document has been reproduced as received from the person or organization originating it. Minor changes have been made to improve reproduction quality. Points of view or opinions stated in this document do not necessarily represent official OERI position or policy. By Laurie Serota O Fulbright-Hays Summer Seminar Cr) Israel-Jordan 1998 O EST COPY AVAI L THIS PAGE INTENTIONALLY LEFT BLANK 2 -7) 120 4-konfl The Crusades and Islam Introduction These two mini-units fall in the middle of a six month long study of The Middle Ages. These units are designed to supplement the areas of study dictated by The Core Knowledge Sequence, the content rich curriculum used by my school. Both the Crusades and Islam are topics of study in the fourth grade World History section of The Core Knowledge Sequence. These mini- units will incorporate the depth of content required to support the larger unit on The Middle Ages, and will also include appropriate fourth grade skills and interdisciplinary connections. Many of the lessons in these two mini-units and the information in them will be drawn firsthand from my experiences in the countries of Israel and Jordan in the summer of 1998. The Crusades Lesson One Objective- The students will understand the goal of the Crusades and the underlying causes. Students will locate on a time line of The Middle Ages where the Crusades fell. Procedure- We will begin by examining a previously created time line of The Middle Ages to see when The Crusades happened. We will read several overviews explaining in general what the Crusades were about, who the Crusaders were, who they fought against and what the goals were of both sides. Students will take turns reading aloud the handouts to attain a general knowledge of The Crusades, pausing to reiterate the key points. (See Appendix) Evaluation- Students will answer a sheet of written comprehension questions to reinforce the reading material and oral discussion. (See Appendix) 121 Lesson Two Students will examine several maps in order to identify the route Objective- the Crusaders took to the Holy Land. Students will understand what the conditions of the journey were like. Procedure- First students will identify the countries from which the Crusaders originated and shade them a light blue. Next they will find Jerusalem and what is now Israel on the map and shade them light green. After this we will trace the routes of The Crusaders to the Holy Land in red. Finally I will read aloud a few descriptions of what happened along the way from books such as The Crusaders, Warriors of God by Georges Tate and Jewish Literacy by Rabbi Joseph Telushkin. We will discuss what these journeys were like for those on The Crusades and for those in the areas they passed through. Evaluation- Describe in a one paragraph diary entry what this journey to the Holy Land was like for a Christian Pilgrim using adjectives, a topic sentence, five supporting sentences and a properly indented beginning. Lesson Three Students will study the significance of the city of Jerusalem to the Objective- Christians, the Muslims and the Jews through photos, slides, art prints and discussion. (Another possibility would be to show National Geographic's video of Jerusalem). First the students will see a slide show narrated by me of photos Procedure- of Jerusalem and the holy sites of the three religions of Judaism, Christianity and Islam. We will discuss the significance of the Western Wall, The Church of the Holy Sepulcher and the Dome of the Rock. I will also read the section on Jerusalem from The Atlas of Holy Places and Sacred Sites by Colin Wilson describing each site in detail. We will look at art prints of scenes of Jerusalem as it appears now and prints from the time of The Crusades. I will read aloud the section on Jerusalem from the book Metropolis, Ten Cities Ten Countries by Albert Lorenz describing the layout of 1 ith century Jerusalem (pgs. 2-7). 122 Students will pick one of the three holy sites to recreate with Evaluation- colored pencils or with a permanent black marker and water color paints. Underneath their picture will need to be three well written, descriptive sentences about the significance of that holy site to the religion it represents. Lesson Four Students will examine the sequence of The Crusades and an Objective- over view of what happened particularly in the First Crusade, The Third Crusade and The Children's Crusade. Students will learn about Saladin and Richard The Lion Hearted, leaders whose decisions and actions affected the outcome of The Crusades. Students will read through and discuss the sequence of events Procedure- that made up The First Crusade using pages 14 15 from the book Great Events That Changed The World by Brian Delf and Richard Platt. Next we will examine the leaders of The Third Crusade and what the outcome of it was. I will read aloud the picture book Saladin by Marion Khalidi and the sheet "The Perfect Knight" about Richard The Lion Hearted. (See Appendix) Finally I will read excerpts from The Children's Crusade by George Zabriskie Gray. Evaluation- Students will write what they would have done if they had been given the opportunity to go on The Children's Crusade. They need to decide if they would have gone or not and why. Again they must write a well constructed paragraph. Lesson Five Students will work in partners using research, art and writing Objective- skills to create an informational poster on The Crusades. Procedure- Students will use the books on display in the room and the handouts we have read to create the poster. The requirements of the poster will be a title, a timeline of The Crusades, one catchy slogan, one short poem, one short news article or I will read the interview of a Crusader and several illustrations. section of Usborne Books The Medieval Messenger called "The Crusade Special" to show examples of slogans and news 123 I will also read two poems of very different style articles. I wrote about The Crusades after a trip to Acre and Caesarea. (See Appendix) Evaluation- The poster will be given a grade based upon content, quality of writing, fulfillment of the requirements, creativity, and neatness. The partners will stand up and present their posters to the class as a culminating activity for this mini-unit. 124 Bibliography Aumann, Moshe, Carta 's Historical Atlas of Israel, Carta Jerusalem, 1983. Billings, Malcolm, The Crusades, Sterling Publishing Company, 1996. Bridge, Antony, The Crusades, Franklin Watts, 1980. Corbishley, Mike, The Middle Ages, Facts on File, 1990. Corbishley, Mike, The Medieval World, Peter Bedrick Books, 1992. Delf, Brian & Platt, Richard, Great Events That Changed The World, DK Publishing, 1997. Gravett, Christopher, The World of the Medieval Knight, Peter Bedrick Books, 1996. Gray, George Zabriskie, The Children's Crusade, William Marrow and Co., 1972. Khalidi, Marion, Saladin, Hood Hood Books, 1996. Lamb, Harold, The Crusades, Doubleday Doran and Co., 1930. Lorenz, Albert, Metropolis Ten Cities Ten Centuries, Harry N. Abrams Incorporated, 1996. Maalouf, Amin, The Crusades Through Arab Eyes, Schocken Books, 1984. Miles, Lisa, Atlas of World History, Usborne Publishing, 1995. Riley-Smith, Jonathan, The Oxford Illustrated History of the Crusades, Oxford University Press, 1997. Riley-Smith, Jonathan, The Atlas of the Crusades, Swanston Publishing, Limited, 1990. Rowling, Marjorie, Everyday Life in Medieval Times, Dorset Press, 1968. Runciman, Steven, The First Crusade, Cambridge University Press, 1980. Tate, Georges, The Crusaders Warriors of God, Harry N. Abrams, 1996. Telushkin, Joseph, Jewish Literacy, William Morrow and Company, 1991. Usborne, The Medieval Messenger, Usborne Publishing, 1996. Wilson, Colin, The Atlas of Holy Places and Sacred Sites, DK Publishing, 1996. 125 Videos and Other Resources The Crusades with host Terry Jones, four videos at approx. 50 minutes each, A&E Home Video, British Broadcasting Company, 1995. Make This Model Crusader Castle, Usborne, EDC Publishing, 1996. Higgin's Armory Museum, Worcester, MA (508) 853-6015. Calliope Magazine, The First Crusade, Volume Five, Number Three, 1995. 126 Appendix