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🗺️ 7th Grade · Social StudiesD2.His.1.6-8Unit 1: Medieval Europe

The Byzantine Empire

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🎯 Objective: Students describe how the eastern Roman Empire continued.

Lesson outline

  1. Map.
  2. Read.
  3. Discuss.
  4. Exit: one fact.

Lesson 1 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.His.1.6-8

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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