September 3, 2012
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Day Seventeen: Homeschool FreebieNoTe: In Michigan, the day after Labor Day is always the first day of public school. So in poking fun of that (and them), I thought I would post this lapbook that I made months and months ago (that I wrote but hadn’t posted, as I hadn’t taken pictures of it). We’re not in school right now (it’s our Feast time)… but here it is, in honor of everyone else hitting the books after today! Besides, this has been waiting to be posted, the fruits of my ‘labor’, hahahaha!!!! ((((ahem.))))
Free Medieval Lapbook
So we’ve in the Middle Ages in “An Island Story” for our World History lessons. (As opposed to Ancient History – ‘Story of the World’ – or American History – ‘History of America’… which, yeah, is a lot of history, but there’s a LOT of history out there!). Anyhow… I need to do something for our Book of Centuries about the Middle Ages. And that means gathering resources that are free. These are all on-line printables available at no charge, to be put into a lapbook!
But first, when is the Medieval period? Most say that it lasted from 500AD to 1500AD. That’s too long of a period for the notebook, and frankly, I think things changed a lot during that time… too much to lump it all together. So here’s what I’m seeing:
0000AD – 0500AD —–> Apostolic/Classical Antiquity
0500AD – 1000AD —–> Byzantine/Dark Ages
1000AD – 1500AD —–> Medieval/Middle Ages
1500AD – 1600AD —–> Renaissance/Reformation
1600AD – 1700AD —–> Baroque/Expressionist
1700AD – 1800AD —–> Classical/Revolutionary
1800AD – 1900AD —–> Romantic/Impressionist
1900AD – 2000AD —–> Modern/Avant-GardeThis is going to help IMMENSELY when we get into composers, architecture, artists, clothing, and more. Of course there are probably sub-groups – like surrealism and post-modernism – that I haven’t included, but you get the idea. And that really helps me to get things into perspective better. Because saying that the ‘medieval’ period is from 500AD to 1500AD… that’s just not even going to work. It’s painting with too broad a brush, spreading a generalization across centuries, IMHO. So by breaking it down, it has a better place in our book, and things seem a little more concise and logical. And my Medieval/Middle Ages segment slides right into our Book of Centuries this way!
And now for the free .pdf links for you:
Cover Art (edited)
Life of a Serf booklet and page two
Life of a Noble booklet and page two
Becoming a Knight
Three Steeds flapbook
Why Knights Fight
Weapons flapbook
The Code of Chivalry
Heraldry (shields/symbols)
About a Castle
Castle Diagram
The Feudal System (edited)There are more booklets at HomeschoolShare, but I didn’t care for the others… feel free to browse, though.
And of course I have pictures of the finished product (well… semi-finished. They’re not colored and there’s a spot for anything I might’ve missed… which I’m suspecting I have done.)
If you can think of anything I need to add or overlooked, PLEASE tell me!
