Task

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Your task is to create a poster about one of the medieval social classes within three lessons. To achieve this you will organised into groups of 5. In your groups you will explore, understand and appreciate the world of Medieval Europe. You will learn the way your social class lived and about their advantages and disadvantages of being in that class. You will learn about the feudal social class system of the medieval age through practical activities, independant and group research, and by presenting what you have learned to the class. Each of you should have equal responsibilities durring this task; assign different roles to each person of the group.

Lesson 1

Jar - King, Lord, Knight, Monk & Serfs - 15mins (5 assigned to each group) Research their characters (individual research) - websites - 30mins GUIDED QUESTIONS Prior knowledge + general overview of social classes

Lesson 2

Collaborative learning - students sharing their knowledge - students walking around the class and sharing thei rknowledge of the topic with the different groups - 10mins Groups of the different classes - groups e.g. peasents brainstorm & the different aspects of their character are assigned to people e.g. day in the life, clothing, relationships etc. - 10 mins Research more of teh specifics of their class - 25 mins

Lesson 3

Make the poster - 25 mins Present to class as a group - 20 mins