Creating a Timeline of Important Events/Peoples of

Europe's Late Middle ages

Task:
Below is a list of 28 significant people or events in the Late Middle Ages of Europe. For each
definition write a date(s) and significance for each person or event. Then place that
definition on a sticky on a timeline (in order) starting with 1066 (The Battle of Hastings).
Eventually, you will create a good copy of a timeline using the program www.popplet.com or
www.dipity.com.
28 People/Events:
Johannes Gutenberg

Genghis Kkan

Pope Urban II

Innocent III

Magna Carta

The Battle of Hastings

Black Death

Peasants Revolt (England)

Joan of Arc

War of the Roses

Edward the Black Prince

Peasants' Revolut (France)

John Wycliffe

Jan Hus

Eleanor of Aquitaine

Medieval Troubandours

Battle of Agincount
100 year War
Geoffry Chaucer

Marco Polo

The Great Western Schism in Western Christendom

The Battle of Bosworth in England

Thomas Aquinas

King Edward II
The Great Schism
The Pilgrimage of Grace

The Knights of Templar

The Great Famine

1317
Your timeline will need:
1.

Entries with significant people or events in Europe's Late Middle Ages

2.

In chronological order

Criteria:
chronological order is correct.
each event/person has a quick note on why it is significant and dates

timeline has all 28 definitions

is neat/organized
Task:
1. Break up the research with a partner
2. Research - put onto sheet
3. Put into digital timeline; a popplet will let both partners to work at the same time

Assessment Rubric for Timeline

Criteria

Exceeding
Expectations

Fully Meeting
Expectations

Content

Content for all

28 important
people/events
present
and
thoroughly
researched and
detailed.

Content for all

28 important
people/events
present and
completely
supported.

10
Chronological
order is correct,
there
is
a
heading
for
each entry and
the
layout
exceptional
clear
and
organized and
easy to follow.
There is no
grammatical
errors.
5

8.5
Chronological
order is correct,
there is a
heading for
each entry and
the layout clear
and organized
and easy to
follow. There is
no grammatical
errors.

- dates
- significance
- 4-5 points
- 28 events/people

/10
Layout
-chronological
order
- headings for each
- organized/easy to
follow
- grammar

/5
Total:

out of 15

Adequately
Meeting
Expectations
Content
demonstrates a
general
understanding
and is limitedly
supported with
details. Could
be missing 1-2
items
7
Chronological
order has 1-2
errors, there is
a heading for
each entry and
the layout does
not confuse the
reader.

Minimally
Meeting
Expectations
Content
demonstrates
a basic
understanding
and vaguely
supported.
Could be
missing 3-4

Not Yet
Meeting
Expectations
Does not
demonstrate
an
understanding
for the
events/people
of Late Middle
Ages

5
Chronological
order has a
few errors,
could be
missing a
heading,
and/or the
layout is
difficult to
follow

0
Not yet
meeting any
of these..

3.5

2.5