The rough draft must take the information from the research and present it. As in the outline (see last week's posts,) you must have an introduction and conclusion. There should also be three body paragraphs, each of which must present and explain at least 3 details from the research. Your goal in your conclusion is to give a basic explanation of how the ideas from your research can explain something from your experiment.
The rough draft must be double spaced if typed, or leave blank spaces between lines if handwritten. We will be peer editing this on Thursday, when it is due. (In most classes, we did not actually start on this today, so we will begin tomorrow.)
In social studies, we simply brainstormed a review of our Medieval European Society and the Reformation unit in terms of economics, religion, hidden enemies, social order and safety, and competition over power and resources.
I also (re-)introduced the summative assessment for this topic, which will be given next Thursday (12/18/14.) As before, it will be an open note, in-class essay.
Medieval Society and the Reformation Summative
Select two of the themes below. Write two separate CAR format responses explaining three ways in which each one relates to Medieval European Society and/or the Reformation.
- Economic Security versus Economic opportunity, and competition for resources leading to inequality: how economic conditions drive social injustice, political decisions, interact with religious beliefs, and specifically how societies choose to distribute wealth and power.
- How did money and property affect or change Medieval Society? or...
- How did Medieval Society affect or change money and property?
- Religious freedom versus a virtuous (good) society: how a sense of religious destiny in religious societies drives political, social and economic change, and specifically the conflict between people's desire to follow their own faith and the desire of dominant groups to force others to conform to their ideal of virtuous behavior in a good society.
- How did Christianity affect or change Medieval Society? or...
- How did Medieval Society affect or change Christianity?
- Security versus personal freedom: How fear of internal enemies and conspiracies influence political and social events, and specifically the conflict between people's desire for security provided by a government and their desire for freedom from an overly powerful and oppressive government.
- How did fear of Heretics, Witches and Protestants affect or change Medieval Society? or...
- How did Medieval Society affect or change people’s fear of Heretics, Witches and Protestants?
- Rule of law versus personal freedom: how conflicts over personal security and personal rights influence political, social and religious events. How does a society value and balance between laws that restrict harm but also limit actions?
- What limits were there on people’s behavior in this period, and how did it affect or change Medieval Society? or...
- How did Medieval Society affect or change what limits there were on people’s behavior?
- Distrust of government power: how do people perceive governmental power, how do they contribute to maintaining it, or how do they resist? What types of governments have evolved to fulfill specific needs?
- What groups were competing for power during this period, and why? or...
- What kinds of conflict emerged in this period because people did not trust or respect the authority of the rulers?