Materials

• Textbook
• Preferred teacher resources
• A copy of the “Early Middle Ages Timeline Worksheet” (Attachment B) for each student
• A copy of the “Early Middle Ages Timeline” (Attachment C) for each student
• Copies of blank outline map of Europe
• List of events of the Early Middle Ages
• List of places to identify
• Overhead projector (optional)

Instructional Activities

1. Discuss and provide feedback if homework included written work.
   
   
2. Distribute the “Early Middle Ages Timeline Worksheet” (Attachment B). Provide students with a list of events of the Early Middle Ages without dates. Instruct them to look up the events in their text or other source, find the date, and fill in the worksheet blanks with the correct events. Discuss the dates and events to be sure that students have filled in their worksheets correctly. Then distribute the “Early Middle Ages Timeline” (Attachment C), and have students transfer the events from their worksheets to the appropriate places on the timeline.
   
   
3. Have the students pick five or six of the events to annotate with a simple icon or symbol that represents that event.
   
   
4. Next, provide students with a blank map of Europe and a list of places and bodies of water (either on the board or overhead) that they should label correctly on the map. Tell them that they will be graded on neatness, accuracy, and completeness. As they label the map, students should recall appropriate places from previous lessons related to this time period and label those places as well (e.g., the Mediterranean Sea, Italy, Asia, and Africa).
   
   
5. Ask students to provide a title for their map and a key that includes a color code for water, cities, and boundaries of empires and territories.
   
   
6. Instruct students to study the map for next session, in preparation for a quiz that requires them to identify numbered places on a map of Europe.