Crusades

Introduction

The Crusades were a series of religious wars initiated, supported, and sometimes directed by the Christian Latin Church in the medieval period. The best known of these military expeditions are those to the Holy Land in the period between 1095 and 1291 that were intended to conquer Jerusalem and its surrounding area from Muslim rule.

Let's start a time travel to 11th century.

Task

You will create your own time line about Crusades.

After creating it, you should announce what you wrote on it. In this stage, you should be a soldier in several Crusades, so you can say the hardship you faced during the Crusades. 

As I said in Introduction, you can do the time travel to the several Crusades.

Process

1. Teacher will make groups 4~5 students in each group.

1. Students find the video, article or, documentary (the maximum time of video : 20minutes)(below is an example video)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0zudTQelzI

2. According to the video, article or documentary, students write what they heard or read in the sheet.

3. Creating a time line, and decorating it.

4. Becoming a soldier and announce what you created. 

Evaluation

1. the Historical accuracy (maximum 5pts)

2. the imporant events in Crusades (maximum 10pts)

3. the evaluation of classmates (participation, leading this activity, and presentation each 5pts)

Conclusion

After doing this task, you can understand and memorize the Crusades and the many events that happened in Crusades well.

Thank you for your service and positive participation.