Question about specific exam question in Middle Ages guide

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  • September 13, 2017 at 11:30 am
    KeriJ
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    We are using the Middle Ages guide this year, and my 9th grader is following the plans for grades 10-12.  One of the exam questions suggests creating a sketch or map of the world during the Middle Ages.  I really like the idea, especially my own thoughts of having her work on it over the course of the year, but I’m having a brain block about specifics.  If anyone has used this guide (or even if Sonya were to have time), I’d love help with figuring out what that would “look like”.

    September 13, 2017 at 8:34 pm
    Sonya Shafer
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    My main goal with that exam question is to help the student realize how much was happening over various places on the earth — that the Middle Ages and Renaissance was not only about Europe. And to help her crystalize in her own mind where each historical account took place. So in the Term 1 exam we ask the student to put the various people and events she has read about on a map, showing where each one occurred. (You could have her sketch a quick world map if she feels capable or give her a blank outline one. If she prefers to write an essay instead, detailing each location, that works too.) Then if you look ahead to Term 2’s exam, she will be expanding that same map (or essay) and adding new names to the various locations.

    September 14, 2017 at 10:31 am
    KeriJ
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    Thank you, Sonya. I think we are going to do this as we go rather than as an exam.

    This may be a dumb question, but sometimes I am very visual. I am picturing a world map with names, events and dates written on it….almost like a Book of Centuries in map form?😊

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