Challenges to Church Power

Objectives

Anticipatory Set

Methodology

Materials

Artful Ending

Assessment

Objectives

1. Summarize the conflict between King Philip of France and Pope Boniface VIII.
2. Analyze the effects of the Babylonian Captivity and Great Schism on the power of the Church.
3. State the positions of the early reformers in Europe.
4. Anticipate the upcoming Reformation and its implications for a changing Europe.

Anticipatory Set

On the overhead place a list of eight true/false questions reviewing the church. Students should answer the questions in their notebook.

Methodology

1. Review the answers to the journal entry as a way of assessing what students have learned about the church thus far.
2. Lecture-discussion on the challenges to church power, the Babylonian Captivity, and the Great Schism.
3. Use an overhead image of a reformation woodcut, comparing Christ to the pope (depicted as Antichrist). Question the class about the meaning of this image, the creatorÕs purpose in drawing it, where it might be published, and whom it would be directed to.
4. Assign the class two political cartoons. One should be about the Church; the other could be about anything during the Middle Ages that we have covered, as a preparation for review.
5. Towards the end of class pass out the Middle Ages vocabulary sheets. Students should finish these as a review for the test.

Materials

• True/false questions.
• Overhead Reformation woodcut image.
• Political cartoon worksheet.
• Middle Ages vocabulary sheet.

Artful Ending

Remind the students that tomorrow we will review for their test, which will be in two days. Ask them to be sure to complete their vocabulary sheet for homework.

Assessment

• StudentsÕ knowledge of the church and the baseline for learning will be established through the true/false questions.
• StudentsÕ ability to ÒreadÓ visual images will also be assessed through our discussion about the woodcut, and through their creation of two political cartoons.
• The cartoons will be graded according to the content knowledge that they show and the effort put into them.
• The vocabulary sheets will be assessed based on completion, as it is basically a tool to help prepare students for the unit test.