Quest 2- Who Are You?
Creating Your Middle Age Character
Essential Concepts:
1. Feudalism was a political system in which society was split into very distinct
social classes. People could not change social classes and each social classes
had unique characteristics.
2. People experience the same events with a different point of view and different opinions depending upon their social class.
Computer -side chat 1:35
Today, pick from an envelope and view the title you will hold during the Middle Age Webquest. The class has one king, one queen, several nobles(duke, baron, etc..), a monk, a bishop, a few knights, merchants, craftsmen and many peasants, serfs and villeins, etc... Remember this is your new life. |
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Research, collect photos, make drawings and write in great detail in your journal about the following questions:
Each member in class picks a different character role(knight, peasant, craftsman, noble, serf , etc...)
1. In your journal tell: What is your role?
Find your role in the document Medieval People below and click on the links below to define your role.
1. In your journal tell: What is your role?
Find your role in the document Medieval People below and click on the links below to define your role.
Middle Ages: http://www.middle-ages.org.uk/middle-ages-sitemap.htm
Medieval Life: http://www.medieval-life-and-times.info/medieval-life/index.htm
Middle Ages People: http://www.themiddleages.net/people_middle_ages.htm
Kings: http://www.middle-ages.org.uk/kings-in-middle-ages.htm
Queens: http://www.middle-ages.org.uk/medieval-queens.htm
Noble/ Lord: http://www.middle-ages.org.uk/daily-life-noble-lord-middle-ages.htm
Count: http://www.ehow.com/list_7409281_duties-count.html
Noble: http://westernreservepublicmedia.org/middleages/feud_nobles.htm
Clergy: http://westernreservepublicmedia.org/middleages/feud_clergy.htm
Tradesmen: http://westernreservepublicmedia.org/middleages/feud_tradesmen.htm
Merchant: http://library.thinkquest.org/10949/fief/medmerchant.html
Peasants: http://westernreservepublicmedia.org/middleages/feud_peasants.htm
Lady-in-Waiting: http://www.elizabethan-era.org.uk/lady-in-waiting.htm
Crusader: http://www.middle-ages.org.uk/crusaders.htm
Minstrels or thespians: http://schoolworkhelper.net/medieval-minstrels-history-significance/
Minstrels or Jesters: http://library.thinkquest.org/10949/fief/medentertain.html
Bishop: http://www.thefinertimes.com/Middle-Ages/bishops-in-the-middle-ages.html
Town Crier: http://freespace.virgin.net/albans.crier/page3.html
2. Find an outfit for your person. Follow the steps A-K below:
In step G, watch the Video (3:o4) to learn how to use the remove background feature on power point.
Medieval Life: http://www.medieval-life-and-times.info/medieval-life/index.htm
Middle Ages People: http://www.themiddleages.net/people_middle_ages.htm
Kings: http://www.middle-ages.org.uk/kings-in-middle-ages.htm
Queens: http://www.middle-ages.org.uk/medieval-queens.htm
Noble/ Lord: http://www.middle-ages.org.uk/daily-life-noble-lord-middle-ages.htm
Count: http://www.ehow.com/list_7409281_duties-count.html
Noble: http://westernreservepublicmedia.org/middleages/feud_nobles.htm
Clergy: http://westernreservepublicmedia.org/middleages/feud_clergy.htm
Tradesmen: http://westernreservepublicmedia.org/middleages/feud_tradesmen.htm
Merchant: http://library.thinkquest.org/10949/fief/medmerchant.html
Peasants: http://westernreservepublicmedia.org/middleages/feud_peasants.htm
Lady-in-Waiting: http://www.elizabethan-era.org.uk/lady-in-waiting.htm
Crusader: http://www.middle-ages.org.uk/crusaders.htm
Minstrels or thespians: http://schoolworkhelper.net/medieval-minstrels-history-significance/
Minstrels or Jesters: http://library.thinkquest.org/10949/fief/medentertain.html
Bishop: http://www.thefinertimes.com/Middle-Ages/bishops-in-the-middle-ages.html
Town Crier: http://freespace.virgin.net/albans.crier/page3.html
2. Find an outfit for your person. Follow the steps A-K below:
In step G, watch the Video (3:o4) to learn how to use the remove background feature on power point.
Step-by-step directions:
A. Click on your start icon and open a power point document. Save it as ____(your last, first name) Middle Age clothing in your document folder. example: Ashlin, Mrs. Middle Age clothing
Next, minimize your screen.
B. Go to the r drive under Middle Ages/Clothing/ and enter the appropriate folder for your new social role.
C. When you find an outfit that you feel is appropriate for your person, right click and copy it. Go to your power point document and right click and paste the picture and then save.
D. Next, Go to the r drive / middle school/(your teacher's name)/A or B Day/LA1 or LA2 photos. Find your picture. Right Click and copy it.
E. Go to your power point document and right click and paste it to the same slide you have your outfit on.
F. Click on format tab
G. Using your picture tools click on the remove your background button
and remove the background. Watch the video above if you need more information.
H. Paste your head into the picture.
I. To group the pictures: Home tab/editing/select/select all and right click/ group
Now your picture in grouped together. Copy and paste your picture so that you have two of them on on slide(one for your journal and one for your teacher).
J. Save your picture to the r drive.
R:\MiddleSchool\Ashlin or Coe \Aday or Bday\feudalism.
Name the file(your last, first name, your role) example: Ashlin, Mrs. Pope
K. Print your picture and glue in your journal.
I will use the pictures from the r drive to make a class Feudalism poster for our journey through the Middle Ages.
3. Choose the name of your person. Add the correct title.
Use this sites to help you:
http://www.themiddleages.net/people/names.html
or
Look below (at the bottom of the page) in the Medieval Names document.
Look below (at the bottom of the page) for Royal and Nobel Ranks document.
4.Where did you live? Castle? Manor House? On a Manor? Church? Did you have a permanent house? Get a picture of your home and place it in your journal.
Hint: If you were an entertainer be sure to read information above about yourself.
Castle:
Find a castle for sale in Europe that you will live in.
Remember, Kings' castles are the largest and down the hierarchy we go.
A knight's castle is much smaller and less grand.
You can use these links for castles:
http://www.medievalists.net/2009/04/24/castle-for-sale-guide-to-buying-a-castle/
http://www.3dphoto.net/world/topics/castles/castles.html
http://moulin.nl/castles-for-sale.html
http://www.eurobrix.com/property/castles/http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/daysout/properties/?geocode=Kent
Manor House: A manor was the district over which a lord had domain and could exercise certain rights and privileges in medieval England. A typical manor would include a Manor House which was built apart from the village where the peasants lived.
http://www.agencemercure.co.uk/chateaux.html
Look for the word manor to the right of the picture.
Manor Village Homes: Remember that living on a manor is different than living in a manor house. If you were a peasant you lived in the manor village.
Look through the pictures below to choose your home or Google search "peasant homes" and find one:
This is what a manor village looked like:
Peasant homes:
Church:
http://www.nashfordpublishing.co.uk/churches/index.html
5. In your journal, tell a story (yes, you can make the story up) about your home. What country is it in? What are the positives and negatives of where you live?
http://www.nashfordpublishing.co.uk/churches/index.html
5. In your journal, tell a story (yes, you can make the story up) about your home. What country is it in? What are the positives and negatives of where you live?
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8. In your Journal tell the story of you (your character role), but be sure to reflect on the causes of the Middle Ages and how you got where you are.
A. How did you come to live where you live?
B. Why you are in the social class you are in?
C. What are your feelings about life?
D. Tell about your family, relatives, and connections to the people around you.
E. What is your job/occupation?
F. Add any other information that will help your readers understand your point of view and help you create the life of your feudal character over the next 10 weeks. The link below may help you.
http://library.thinkquest.org/10949/fief/hiindex.html