1. Weekly Plan Tues – Knights, HW Venn Diagram Wed – Geography
Orange book page
Wed – Geography
Thursday – Europe after the Fall of Rome
Friday – Feudalism (assign foldable)

2. Warm-up #1 Brainstorm: What do you know about medieval knights?
2) According to the code of chivalry, how were knights required to behave?

3. Knights Reader and Worksheet
Read the text and use it to answer the questions on your worksheet.
Please use complete sentences where appropriate.

4. Knights and Samurai Venn
Use your Knights worksheet and Life of Samurai worksheets (from the Japan section of your notebook) to compare and contrast knights with samurai.

5. Knights & Samurai
Japanese samurai and European Knights never actually met, but they had much in common.
Both had to take vows of loyalty to their lords.
Both were expected to be disciplined and honorable.
Both had codes of honor
Samurai had: Bushido
Knights had: Chivalry

6. Europe & Japan Differ Japan Europe
Although Samurai and Knights were very similar in many ways, their cultures were mostly different.
Japan Europe
Shintoism/Confucianism/________ Christianity
Art: focused mainly on nature Art: focused mainly on religious themes
Seppuku Forgiveness
Their feudal systems seemed similar but the cultures that lay behind them were different.

7. Compare and Contrast Foldable
Draw a Samurai & Knight
Samurai Knight
Left: List Samurai’s & Japan’s unique qualities
Middle: List Japan’s & Europe’s similarities
Right: List Knights & Europes’s unique qualities
Samurai Similarities Knights