🗺️ 7th Grade · Social StudiesD2.Civ.6.6-8Unit 1: Medieval Europe

Feudalism

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🎯 Objective: Students model the feudal system.

Lesson outline

  1. Feudal pyramid simulation.
  2. Discuss.
  3. Write.
  4. Exit: one role.

Lesson 2 of 5 in this unit. In the Lesson Planner this lesson takes 1–3 class periods depending on your timetable: day 1 introduce & model, then practice, small-group reteach and a quick check.

📐 Standard

D2.Civ.6.6-8

C3 Framework for Social Studies State Standards (NCSS) — typical US grade-level themes

🏁 Unit goals

  • Describe feudalism and manor life
  • Explain the role of the Church and the growth of towns

✅ Check for understanding

End with the exit ticket in the outline. Sort answers into got it / almost / not yet and start the next lesson with a 5-minute reteach for the “not yets”.

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More lessons in “Medieval Europe”

  1. The Byzantine Empire
  2. Feudalism
  3. Manors, towns and guilds
  4. The Black Death
  5. Magna Carta

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