HISTORY: Magna Carta and St. Thomas

We have been learning about King John and his poor leadership skills. You even wrote a letter to the pope pretending to be a disgruntled English baron.

Tuesday, we will read through the reading packet "King John and the Magna Carta". We'll learn why some of the barons nicknamed the king, "John Lackland" or "Softsword". You will learn more about all the problems John was up against as well. We already know he was knocking heads with the pope and the English barons, but we'll also see he made a "boo boo" with the French as well. Can't he learn to play with others? King John would never earn any hole punches in our class would he?

Wednesday, we will have review over our Magna Carta materials in preparation for our test on Thursday.

Thursday, Magna Carta TEST!

St. Thomas Aquinas

Friday, we will begin our lesson on St. Thomas Aquinas, a priest who was a member of the Dominican order of monks. We know about Franciscan monks, Benedictine monks, now Dominican!

You will have a Latin term to learn with this lesson: Summa Theologica which is St. Thomas Aquinas's most famous work. We will dig deeper into this piece of work next week.

Mission: On a piece of paper write down what tests you will be taking in history and bible this week. Also write down the Latin term you will be learning about in your lesson on St. Thomas Aquinas.