MYP4 Last
update -
28 January 2018
Unit 2 - Early Modern - Social being and
consciousness: do ideas change the world?
Key Questions, Words and Skills
Lesson material
Additional materials and external links
Why was
the development and growth of medieval towns so important?
Does social being determine consciousness or does
consciousness determine social being?
Key concepts: change,
continuity, Marxism, guild, bourgeoisie, apprenticeship,
masterpiece, charter,
Key skill: factual recall
Lesson 1
- Towns in the late Middle Ages.
Could women take part in medieval guilds?
Article . Apprenticeship - Being a
teenager in medieval Europe. BBC
article .
Names and occupations - is your name derived from a job in
the medieval ages? (multilingual website)
What was the contribution of outside influence to European
development in the Middle Ages? Key concepts:
Ethnography, Islam, crusade, Arabic numerals, heliocentric,
Byzantine,
silk road, Renaissance.
Key skill: source analysis, revision
note design.
Lesson 2
- The impact of Islam
BBC
documentary on the beauty of medieval maps.
History Channel drama
documentary on the Crusades.
A
video series
which forms the basis of many of the short extracts shown in
the last couple of lessons.
Professor Robert Bartlett explores different aspects of
medieval life.
BBC Bitesize on the Medieval Islamic world.
What were the causes and consequences of the
Black death? Key concepts:
short and long-term consequences,
bubonic and pneumonic plague, pandemic, labour service, serfdom,
revolt.
Key skill: Source analysis
Lesson 3
- The Black Death and Peasants' Revolt.
BBC on
Black Death and
Peasants' Revolt
Short essay on the Black Death by Dr Mike Ibeji.
Return of the Black Death , an interesting recent documentary
examining the discovery of Black death skeletons in 2010 in
London.
Medieval Apocalypse , another dramatic documentary.
Why did Europeans conquer America and not the
other way around? Key concepts:
proselytising, Columbian exchange, stocks and shares,
conquistador, environmental determinism.
Key skill: Historical
interpretation.
Lesson 4 - Columbus and the consequences
Jared Diamond's full documentary series on
Guns, Germs and Steel .
BBC
documentary on the first circumnavigation.
Documentary - What did the Chinese do for us? (and before
us)
Key concepts:
perspective,
humanism, scholasticism, accident and substance, heliocentric,
paradigm shift,
Key skill: Compare and contrast
Lesson 5 - The Renaissance: more than
the Italian painters
Key concepts:
heresy, Schism, teleology, nepotism.
Key skill: Causation: Long and short
term.
Lesson 6 - The Reformation - CausesVIDEO
Tristam Hunt's four part BBC
documentary series of the revolutionary consequences of the
Protestant Reformation.
PBS Empires two part
documentary
History Channel
documentary
End of Unit Assessment
This end of unit assessment will also be the formal January
history exam.
Mid-Year Exams Assessment - e-Assessment
Revision Guide
MYP criteria:
Winter
Exam 2018
