You Decide: A Dark Age?
WORLDHISTORY PROJECTORIGINS / LESSON 5.3CLOSERYOU DECIDE: A DARK AGE?Unless otherwise noted, this work is licensed under CC BY 4.0. Credit: “You Decide: A Dark Age?”, OER Project, www.oerproject.com/PurposeYou’ve explored how different historians describe the period after the fall of Rome. Some saw collapse while others saw change and creativity. Now it’s your turn to weigh in. By writing a response to this lesson’s driving question, you’ll practice weighing evidence, making a judgment, and defending a claim.Process1.Revisit the driving question for this lesson: Did Europe go through a dark age after the fall of the Roman Empire?2.Write a five-or six-sentence summary in response to the driving question. Be sure to include:•a clear claim•at least two specific pieces of evidence•reasoning to explain how the evidence supports your claim