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The Middle Ages - Medieval Period

Lesson One 15/01/2019

Please watch the video below and then answer the questions which follow:
You may need to watch the video more than once to be able to answer these questions:

A page is a young boy who is training to be a __________________?
A boy can become a page at what age?
What do people in the Middle Ages eat for breakfast?
They drank _____________ with breakfast as it is safer than water.
When they go to the toilet when does the waste go?
On what animal do they travel around?
After a page you become a ____________________ and then finally a knight.
When the enemy attacks who must go and and fight?
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Lesson Two and Three

Watch the cartoon below for to 7:10 (7 minutes and 10 seconds) and answer the questions below.
Do peasants have rights?
What was a serf?
What type of taxes did Serfs pay?
Where does the word tax come from?
​In the Middle Ages the first Mouse _________ was used.
What was manure used for?
The Feudal system ranks everybody by how important they are.  Who was at the top?  Who was at the bottom?

25/01/2019 - Middle Ages Revision

29/01/2019

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Lesson 1/02/2019

Please fill in the blanks in the following word document:
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Lesson 5/02/2019

When you have watched the video above please answer the following questions:
  1. Were monks priests?
  2. Did monks come from rich or poor families?
  3. What did monks do at midnight?
  4. What did monks do at dawn?
  5. If a monk fell asleep while saying prayers how were they woken up?
  6. Do monks have hair at the top of their head?
  7. Can you draw a picture which explains what a monks hair looked like?
  8. What rules did monks follow?
  9. When St. Benedict lived alone for three years, he lived in a____________?
  10. At what age did you start training to be a monk?

Lesson 6/02/2019

Complete the Wordsearch below:
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When you have completed the wordsearch, please write a short essay about a Monk in a Medieval Monastery using the following hints:
  • Start by introducing yourself with your name.  (Use full stops after each short sentence.)
  • What was a monk?
  • Where do you live?
  • What do you spend most of your day doing?
  • What rooms are in the monastery?
  • Who made the rules that you follow?
  • Were your family rich or poor?
  • What age were you when you became a monk?
  • How many meals do you eat every day?
  • Apart from praying what else do you do?
  • Where does your food come from?

Lesson 8/2/2019

Lesson 26/2/2019

In this class Alvin I want you to revise from the top of this page. This is how I want you to do it:
  • Go to the top of the page and look at the questions under the first video.  If you don't know some of the answers, please watch the video until you know all of the answers.
  • Then move to the questions under the second video and if you can't answer some of them, please re-watch the video.
  • Then continue down the page.

Lesson 5/3/2019

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Lesson 6/3/2019

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Lesson 8/3/2019

Watch the following documentary and answer the questions which follow:
  1. What is Leonardo Da Vinci famous for?
  2. Where was he born?
  3. What does his name mean?
  4. When did he start painting?
  5. At what age did he start painting?
  6. What type of ideas did Leonardo have?
  7. What did Leonardo want to do all of his life?

Lesson 13/03/2019

Lesson 15/03/2019 - A Renaissance Writer - William Shakespeare

Below you will find a play by Shakespeare:
Answer the question below:
  1. What did his Dad work at?
  2. Where was their house?
  3. Why did he get to go to school?
  4. What did he study at school?
  5. The paper he wrote on was called Parchment.  How was it made?
  6. What age did he get married at?
  7. What was his wife’s name?
  8. What did he spend most of his time doing?
  9. What was his theatre called?
  10. How many people could fit inside his theatre?
  11. How did actors pop up unexpectedly?
  12. Why was the Globe theatre closed?
  13. He wrote ten plays with unhappy endings.  What were they called?
  14. Name two plays which were written by William Shakespeare?
  15. What age was he when he died?

Lesson 19/03/2019

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Lesson 26/03/2019

Lesson 2/4/2019

Please answer the questions below:

Where was Christopher Columbus born?
Name some of the countries that he sailed to?
What country was he shipwrecked off of and what did he do?
Where did Columbus move to after he lived in Portugal?
Why did he want to sail west?
Did Columbus think that the world was round or flat?
What were his ships called?
Why did Columbus call the people Indians?
​Which ship ran aground? 

Lesson 10/04/2019

The quiz below will help you to revise what you have learnt on Columbus.

Lesson 3/9/2019

,Please watch the video below.  When you have finished it please watch it again but this time write a short essay about Christopher Columbus.

Lesson 17/9/2019

  1. What did Martin Luther’s dad want him to become?
  2. Martin Luther promised God that if he lived through the storm he would become a ________________.
  3. What book did Martin Luther like to read?
  4. Does Martin Luther believe that you should pay money to the church?

Lesson 8/10/2019

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Lesson 11/10/2019

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Lesson 7/2/2020

Please watch the video clip below and write down what you have learnt.
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