Grade 7 Unit 3 The Wonder of The Middle Ages
In The Wonder of the Middle Ages, your Grade 7 child journeys through the late Middle Ages, a time of crisis, courage, invention, and rebirth. Through stories of the Black Death, the Hundred Years’ War, Joan of Arc, Marco Polo, Gutenberg, Eleanor of Aquitaine, St. Francis of Assisi, and the rise of trade and towns, students discover how Europe slowly moved toward the Renaissance.
This unit is especially suited to the seventh grader, whose own awakening intellect, questioning spirit, and growing independence are beautifully mirrored in this historical period. Guided daily lessons, writing prompts, portfolio work, calligraphy, timelines, and discussion help students build a rich foundation before moving into a meaningful research project.
During the second half of the unit, your child chooses a Middle Ages topic, develops five guiding questions, conducts in-depth research, writes a seven-paragraph essay, creates an artistic or design-and-build project, and presents their learning. Parents are supported every step of the way with clear lesson guidance, project checklists, examples, and a nourishing Waldorf-inspired rhythm.
This is more than a history unit. It is an invitation to explore how human beings meet challenge, awaken new ideas, and help bring the future into being.
This purchase includes one digital curriculum unit with 15 days of lesson plans and 5 days of flexible projects. This unit will inspire you with beautiful images, clear instructions and exciting project ideas.
And that's not all. You will also gain access to the Wonder Hub, which includes supporting documents, videos, resources, and community.
The Wonder of the Middle Ages
Learning Standards
Concept: Language and text can be a source of creativity and joy.
Concept: Developing our understanding of how language works allows us to use it purposefully.
Connection: The assigned reading and independent book choice invite your child into story, imagination, and personal connection with the time period. As they develop their research essay and oral presentation, they will learn to use language with greater purpose, organize ideas clearly, choose words thoughtfully, and consider how tone, volume, pace, and gesture help convey meaning to an audience.
Math
Concept: Computational fluency and flexibility with numbers extend to operations with larger (multi-digit) numbers.
Connection: Math is supported in this unit through daily practice, games, and workbook work designed to strengthen fluency and flexibility with numbers
Social Studies
Concept: Increasingly complex societies required new systems of laws and government.
Concept: Economic specialization and trade networks can lead to conflict and cooperation between societies.
Connection: Through the study of the late Middle Ages, your child will see how growing towns, expanding trade, changing economic systems, war, famine, and disease placed new pressures on medieval society. As communities became more complex, older feudal structures began to weaken, and new systems of law, taxation, government, and civic organization emerged. The unit also explores how trade, guilds, banking, wool and cloth production, and long-distance travel connected societies in new ways, creating both cooperation through exchange and conflict through competition, war, and shifting power.
Science
Concept: Evolution by natural selection explains the diversity of living things and how they survive in different environments.
Connection: Your child may complete the optional Special Investigation study to learn about natural selection and how it works.