Session 3: Mapping the Reformation

Materials

  • Map of Europe for each student

Instructional Activities

NOTE: The following Web resources may be helpful in this session:

  1. As a warm-up review, have a two-column list on the board. List reformers in one column and beliefs or actions in the second column. Instruct students to match the person with the action or belief. One strategy is to prepare sentence strips with magnets on the back, so that students can come up and physically move the information.

  2. Have students work on the unfinished outline from Session 1. As they are writing the information, walk around to check for the illustrations assigned as homework.

  3. Provide a map of Europe for each student. Guide students through the process of drawing the boundaries, labeling and coloring the map.
    • Draw the boundaries for and label France, Switzerland, Holy Roman Empire, Spain, and England.
    • Draw a dot for the cities of London, Paris, Bordeaux, Avignon, Rome, Geneva, Worms, Erfurt, and Wittenberg.
    • Color the water light blue.
    • Color the areas that are mostly Catholic in pink.
    • Color the areas that are Lutheran in green.
    • Color the area that is Calvinist in yellow.
    • Draw small triangles where Huguenot minorities live.
    • Draw small squares where Presbyterian minorities live.

  4. Lead a class discussion about the map, using the questions below:
    • Where are most of the Catholic majorities located? (Southern Europe)
    • Where are most of the Protestant denominations located? (Northern Europe)
    • Where is the location (residence) of the Pope? (Rome)
    • What conclusions can be made about the location of Protestants and the location of the head of the church of Rome? (The farther away from Rome, the easier it was to be Protestant.)
    • What nation or territory is most likely to have a war over religion? Give facts using data from the map.

  5. Assign a reading selection on the religious wars. Use the text, other ancillary materials, or Web sites
    to construct a guided reading activity on the wars of religion. Discuss the selection in class.

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