Oklahoma Social Studies AWH.C.9.5.D
The Standard
- AWH.C.9.5
- Analyze the Latin West following the fall of the Roman Empire.
Describe Scandinavian raids and conquests (e.g.,Vikings), explorations (e.g., Iceland, Greenland, Vinland), and state-building (e.g., Normandy, England, Naples, Russia).
Oklahoma Academic Standards for Social Studies (2026) · AWH.C.9.5
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students trace Scandinavian voyages across the North Atlantic and Europe. They tell raids apart from exploration and settlement. They explain how Vikings and their descendants gained land and political power in places such as Normandy, England, southern Italy, and early Rus.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student can place Iceland, Greenland, and Vinland in travel order on a map. They can explain how Norman settlers in France came to rule England in 1066, and name another place where Scandinavians or their descendants helped build a state.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may call every Viking voyage a raid, including settlement in Iceland and Greenland. They may think the Normans who conquered England were the same people who first settled Normandy centuries earlier. Some assume Vinland became a lasting kingdom.
How to Assess It
- Give students a blank map spanning Newfoundland to western Russia. Ask them to label Iceland, Greenland, Vinland, Normandy, England, Naples, and early Rus, then explain how Scandinavians or their descendants gained power in one place.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs a map and cards for Lindisfarne, Vinland, Normandy, and early Rus; have them place each card and sort by raid, exploration, or rule.
Ask students to write two sentences on how Norman settlers in Normandy became rulers in England after 1066, using one map detail.
Run a four-corner sort: read Lindisfarne, Greenland, Vinland, and 1066 England; students choose raid, settlement, exploration, or conquest.
Find Grimsby and Derby on a current map, then ask what the Norse place-name ending '-by' suggests about settlement.
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