Notes for Chapter 14, sections 3-5.

Section Three:

Many growing cities of the Middle Ages were dark, unsafe, dirty, and unhealthy. There were no streetlights or police. People did not go out at night for fear of a robber. Waste was dumped into open gutters. This caused disease to spread very easily and quickly through crowded cities. The plague was called "The Black Death". It was in Europe. It began in Asia and spread through trade routes.It entered ports by way of trading ships. Black rats on the ships carried the disease. The plague was spread to people by bites from fleas on the rats.The exact number of deaths from the plague in Europe is unknown. It happened so quickly that the alive people couldn't keep track of how many and burying the dead.Some entire villages and towns were wiped out. About 25 million people died in Europe from 1347-1351. That's about one third of the population. It caused many changes in Europe. People's faith in God was shaken. The church lost some of it's power and importance. Relations between the upper class and lower class changed. Workers, now in short supply, demanded higher wages. In several European countries, peasants staged uprisings.

Section Four:

Vernacular Languages- everyday speech that varied from place to place spoken by people with little education, most were related to Latin.
Troubadours-traveling singers who wrote poems about love and chivalry.
Dante Alighieri- great midieval writer.
Geoffrey Chaucer- great midieval writer.
Scholasticism- an attempt to bring together faith and reason.
Peter Abelard- an important philosopher of scholasticism, taught in Paris in the 1100s.


Section Five:

A series of conflict between England and France was the Hundred Years' War. In 1328 the last male member of France's Capetian dynasty died. Edward III claimed the French throne. The French assembly chose Philip VI, the Count of Flanders, as king instead. In 1337 Edward brought an army to Flanders, hoping to gain control of this rich trading area.Thus the Hundred Years' War began. It continued for 116 years as a series of raids and battles. Sometimes there were long periods of uneasy peace. England won many battles but lost the war. By 1453 France controlled all of England's lands except Calais. The Hundred Years' War saw the use of new weapons in Europe. At the Battle of Agincourt in 1415, English foot soldiers used longbows. With these bows they could fire arrows quickly, hitting targets up to 200 yards away. French knights on horseback were no match for the English and their longbows. Both the English and the French used gunpowder and cannons in battle. Castles no longer provided protection for a fuedal lord because one powerful cannon blast could break through a castle's wall. Longbows, gunpowder, and cannons further weakened knightly warfare.Besides loss of life and land, The Hundred Years' War had another important affect on England. Parliament, particularly the House of Commons, gained more power over the king.

Bellringers.

Jesse Owens
1.He was a track and field athlete.
2.He was born on September 12, 1913.
3.By the age 12, he had developed into a promising sprinter.

Tiger Woods
1.He is a professional golfer.
2. His real name is Eldrick Woods.
3.He won the first of six Optimist International Junior World Titles.

Michael Jordan
1.He is a basketball player and businessman.
2.His basketball fame won him numerous commercial endorsements throughout the world.
3.He has three children.

Whoopi Goldberg
1.Real name is Caryn Elaine Johnson.
2.born in New York City
3.Actress.

Ida Bell Wells- Barnett
1.journalist.
2.born a slave.
3.born on July 16, 1862

Louis Armstrong
1.Jazz musician and entertainer
2.Born in Louisiana
3.The date of his birth is questionable

Langston Hughes
1.He was a writer.
2.from Missouri
3.born on February 1st 1902

Colin Powell
1. Secretary of State.
2.was confirmed as secretary of state in 2001.
3.born in Harlem, New York City.

Hank Aaron
1.Baseball player.
2.Born February 5, 1934.
3.was raised in a segregated place.

Elijah McCoy
1.prolific inventor.
2.from Canada.
3.was fascinated with all things mechnical.

Facts for Video on Technology.

- 20 million other people have been "rickrolled"
- the average teen sends 2,272 texts a month
-many of today's college majors didn't exist 20 years ago
-90% of emails sent are spam
-more than 70% of the us's 4 year olds have used a computer.
-90% of interactive whiteboards are not used properly
-china has more honors kids than america has kids
-1 out of 8 couples met online
-there are 31 billion searches on google every month
-the first commercial text was sent in december 1992


6 Slide powerpoint

1-3 history of your nusery rhyme
    1-2 line by line- the nursery rhyme
    3- WANT/ADVERSTISEMENT-slogan

The Vow of Silence.

I enjoyed the activity because it was something different, instead of just having normal class.It was a bit challenging working together and not talking to each other.If we had to do that all day, it would be even more challening because communication helps alot. You can still communicate but, it is more difficult because, you can't just blurt out something, it takes more time. I learned that you can still make things work without talking. It just takes patience and effort. If everyone is willing to put forth the effort, it will most likely work. You have to be able to pay attention to other people, try to understand them, and try to communicate with using paper or some other source of communicating.