Teacher: Celeste Guthrie (Read more about her biography here)
Dates for 4 week course: May 3 to May 28, 2027
Times for Live Sessions: Monday through Thursday, Starting at 9:15am MT (which is 11:15am ET and 8:15am PT). On Friday at 9:15am MT there will be student group meetings. Each live session lasts between 50 and 70 minutes.
Course Description
This Grade 6/7 history block invites students into the world of the Middle Ages through a series of living questions: What held society together after the fall of Rome? How did Christianity and Islam shape the medieval world? How did feudal society actually work? What kinds of lives were considered noble, holy, or necessary in that time? At this stage of development, students are increasingly ready to look beyond isolated events and begin asking how a whole society holds together, what people value, and how belief, work, law, and loyalty shape human life. As students explore kingdoms, castles, monasteries, villages, and the growing life of medieval society, they will meet the people and structures that gave this age its form. Through story, discussion, map work, and Main Lesson book work, students will write summaries, create illustrations and timelines, and study important people whose lives reveal the character of the age.
