Welcome to Our Before the Renaissance: Middle School History Homeschool Course

Course Sample for Our Before the Renaissance: Middle School History Homeschool Course

Before the Renaissance
By Kristen Heider

This history course covers the time period from AD 400 to Pre-Renaissance and includes the following types of activities:

• World Book Online readings
• Vocabulary
• Mapping / Geography
• Journal / Notebooking
• Research and summary activities
• Art projects

For your journal/notebooking entries, you may include drawings, illustrations, and clipart along with written responses to express your answers. There are notebooking pages provided in the downloads for use, if you choose.

Journal pages are also available at SchoolhouseTeachers.com, if you wish to print them rather than use a notebook. https://schoolhouseteachers.com/blog/wide-ruled-college-journal-page-printouts-free/

Course Objectives

By the end of the course, you should be able to demonstrate knowledge of writings, ways of life, governments, wars, and major contributions of this period including:

1. Migration and lifestyles of Celtic people
2. The Dark Ages, focusing on the roles of the barbarians, the Huns, Germanic tribes,Vandals, Franks, Angles, and Saxons
3. Ways of life in feudal societies
4. Significance of the Arab contributions to science, math, and medicine
5. Causes and events of the Crusades
6. Rise of Christianity in relation to the influence of the Roman Catholic Church,Charlemagne, and the split between Roman and Greek Orthodox
7. Historical significance of Henry II, Magna Carta, Parliament, Hundred Years’ War, and the Black Death

To view a full sample of this course, click here.

Course Outline of Our Before the Renaissance: Middle School History Homeschool Course

Dig into the fascinating history of life before the Renaissance with these eighteen weekly lessons. 

• Week One: Introduction to the Middle Ages
• Week Two: Brief History of Celts, Scots, and Anglo-Saxons, Part 1
• Week Three: Brief History of Celts, Scots, and Anglo-Saxons, Part 2
• Week Four: Germanic Tribes, Part 1
• Week Five: Germanic Tribes, Part 2
• Week Six: Feudalism and Manorialism, Part 1
• Week Seven: Feudalism and Manorialism, Part 2
• Week Eight: Rise of Christianity, Part 1
• Week Nine: Rise of Christianity, Part 2
• Week Ten: The Crusades, Part 1
• Week Eleven: The Crusades, Part 2
• Week Twelve: The Crusades, Part 3
• Week Thirteen: European Nations, Part 1
• Week Fourteen: European Nations, Part 2
• Week Fifteen: European Nations, Part 3
• Week Sixteen: Arabic Contributions During the Middle Ages, Part 1
• Week Seventeen: Arabic Contributions During the Middle Ages, Part 2
• Week Eighteen: Middle Ages Final Project and Test