Oklahoma Social Studies AWH.C.10.5.B
The Standard
- AWH.C.10.5
- Examine religious, intellectual, cultural, technological, and economic developments in medieval Europe from the Norman Conquest to 1300.
Identify the growing influence of universities, Roman law, canon law, and Scholasticism.
Oklahoma Academic Standards for Social Studies (2026) · AWH.C.10.5
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What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students explain how medieval universities trained scholars, lawyers, and clergy. They distinguish Roman law from canon law, which governed church matters such as marriage. They describe how Scholasticism used questions and arguments to examine ideas.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student can explain why a marriage dispute might go to a church court and why a ruler might consult someone trained in Roman law. They can describe how a university debate tested an idea and how students carried what they learned to other places.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may treat Roman law and canon law as the same rules or assume Roman law governed every medieval court. They may mistake Scholasticism for a school building rather than a way of examining questions through argument.
How to Assess It
- Exit ticket: Label a marriage case in a church court, a ruler using a Roman legal text, and a debate about faith and reason. Then explain how universities helped spread one of those practices.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Cut and sort cards labeled Paris degree, Roman legal text, church marriage ruling, and faith-and-reason debate under university, Roman law, canon law, and Scholasticism.
Ask students to write two sentences on why a ruler might hire a Bologna-trained lawyer but still keep local customs.
Run four corners with marriage dispute, law degree, Roman legal text, and question with arguments and replies; students choose matching influences.
Show a current law school course list; students compare its training for legal work with medieval Bologna and name one difference.
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