Make Your Own… A B C Book About the Middle Ages

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How To Use Your Alphabet Pages Making an alphabet book can be fun for all ages. The younger ones in your family can make them simple, while your older ones can make theirs more complex. Some types of alphabet pages are made so that you can color them in and decorate them; the other already has some coloring. There are wide lines and more narrowly spaced lines to suit different age levels. We recommend that if you want to illuminate your pages like those in the Middle Ages, you decorate them with colorful clip art found on the web, sparkly glitter pens, paint, and/or craft jewels. These pages can be used during or after your study of the Middle Ages to research or review and write about what you have learned during your study. They can also be used as an activity to complete after reading about monks and illuminations during this time period, or after reading a book such as The Door in the Wall by Marguerite De Angeli, in which monks illuminating Bibles is included. After you have completed a notebooking page for each letter of the alphabet, place a piece of paper in the front and the back to create a cover and a back cover for your book. If you want to get very creative, you can use brown craft paper or a paper bag after you have wrinkled it up and pressed it out for your cover. Or, you can seep a tea bag, squeeze a bit of the excess water from it, and rub it all over your paper to create your own parchment- looking paper.

Decorate the cover with jewel tone colored gel pens and glitter pens, colorful stickers, and craft jewels. Using tapestry thread and a tapestry needle, sew the pages together to create a binding for your book, similar to the method used by the monks of this time. You will have a lovely keepsake of your studies for purposes of review and for your student portfolio. A list of recommended topics to write about for each letter of the alphabet is included on the following pages. Not every topic is included; you can use your own in place of some of the ones we have suggested to match your child’s interests and studies. Topics include those terms, people, or events from the early to the late middle ages. Those topics that border the reformation and the renaissance time period (Gutenberg, Galileo, etc.) have been left out and will be included in our Make Your Own ABC Book of the Renaissance. Here are a few good websites to help you with some of your research: A Unit Study of the Middle Ages from FunSchool http://www.easyfunschool.com/article1010.html Social Studies for Kids http://www.socialstudiesforkids.com/subjects/middleages.htm Mr. Donn’s Middle Ages http://worldhistory.mrdonn.org/middleages.html

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Recommended Topics for Each Alphabet Page A Art Architecture Angles Anglo-Saxon Augustine Alfred the Great B Bubonic Plague The Bible The Bayeux Tapestry Battle of Hastings Black Death C Crusades Coat of Arms Code of Chivalry Chaucer Canterbury Tales Charlemagne Charles the Hammer/Charles Martel Clovis Castles Cathedrals D Donatello Dante Alighieri Divine Comedy The Dauphin/Charles VII E El Cid Ethelbert Eric the Red Edward the Confessor F Feasts Fra Angelico Filippo Brunelleschi Francesco Petrach Feudalism Flying Buttresses

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G Gregorian Chants Great Doomsday Book Guilds Goths/Gothic Gentry Giovanni Cimabue Giotto H Heraldry Hanseatic League King Henry II King Henry III King Henry V King Henry VI Hundred Years’ War Hagia Sophia Harold of Wessex I Inquisitions Illuminations Indulgences Ivanhoe Ivan the Great Ivan the Terrible J Justinian/Code of Justinian Jousts King John Joan of Arc Journeyman K Knights Koran The Keep King Arthur Kublai Khan L Leif Ericson King Louis IX Leo Battista Alberti Lancelot

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M Marco Polo Magna Charta Minstrels Monks Monasteries Medieval Middle Ages Muhammad N Norman Conquest St. Nicholas O Ottoman Turks Ottoman Empire Ostrogoths P Pepin the Short Peasants’ Revolt Parchment Page Portcullis St. Patrick Pilgrimage Q Quillons Quatrefoil Quarrel Quarter Quitclaim R Richard the Lion-hearted Robert the Bruce Roger Bacon King Richard I King Richard II Robin Hood Roland S Saxons Scriptorium Silk Road

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Saladin Scale Armour Serf Squire T Tapestries Thomas Aquinas Thomas Becket Traders Templars Tithe Trebuchet Trefoil Truss Turret U Pope Urban II Undercroft Usury V Visigoths Vikings Vassal Vault Vicar Villein W William the Conqueror/William of Normandy War of the Roses William Wallace/Braveheart William Tell X Pope Gregory X (this is the only term I could find for X. If you can find another, I commend you!) Y Yard-land Yeoman Yoke Yett Z Zupan Zigzag (architecture term)

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