Black Plague web activity

Black Plague web activity

Robin Hood materials

Part 1:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbN1bFtNNo4

This should lead you to other parts in case you need to rewatch some parts.

If you need to find exact quotations, IMDB has some:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102798/quotes

Building the Great Cathedrals

PBS NOVA documentary, in full:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/ancient/building-gothic-cathedrals.html

Or on YouTube, in full:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZgQ_3Mit80

NOVA: Physics of Stone Arches (build your own arches!)
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/physics/arch-physics.html

Washington Post today's paper

To access The Washington Post's daily paper online, go to: www.washingtonpost.com/todays_paper.

Alternatively, you can go to Washington Post's homepage and click on the link.


Once you get to Today's Paper, you should see something like this:


What's cool about The Washington Post is that it shows you the entire front page (and other pages). You can then click on the actual article to read it. This way, you, as the reader, can see what the paper deemed to be the most important stories on that day.


Like The New York Times, you can also access up to one week's worth of past front pages. This way, if you didn't get a chance to read the paper on a particular day, you can always catch up.

Islam: Empire of Faith, The Awakening

Islam: Empire of Faith: The Awakening

Inside Mecca questions

National Geographic's Inside Mecca is available in full online. Your homework is to finish the film and answer the questions by class on Friday.


Inside Mecca

Islam: Empire of Faith homework worksheet

Directions: Go to Islam: Empire of Faith: The Messenger and watch the first 25 minutes. Answer the questions on the handout.

Empire of Faith homework worksheet

Chinese dynasties animation!

A really cool animation that shows the territories of Chinese dynasties!

USA Today's weekly news quiz

USA Today has a weekly news quiz. It uses their own news content to generate the questions, so it doesn't quite match up with The New York Times. It also seems to cover a wider range of topics (sports, for example). But it's another option if you're interested! http://www.usatoday.com/news/news-quiz.htm

New York Times interactive news quiz

Here is a daily news quiz put out by The New York Times. Of course, because it's a daily quiz, it covers more information than ours on Monday, but it's based on their front page, like ours is. http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/category/news-quiz/