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MATERIALS
PROCEDURES
SUGGESTED READINGS
Castle
David Macaulay. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1977
This award-winning classic book illustrates and describes in detail how a
castle and town were planned and constructed to keep people safe during an
attack.
Knights in Armor
John D. Clare, ed. San Diego: Gulliver Books, 1992
Women in the Middle Ages were not regarded as mens equals. Read about
a womans world of arranged marriages, cooking, obedience, sewing and
weaving, making music and reading stories about love and chivalry.
Medieval Life
Andrew Langley. Photographs by Geoff Dann and Geoff Brightling. New York:
Knopf, 1996
The many illustrations and pictures in this book will help you understand
what it meant to be a woman living in the Middle ages.
LINKS
Wyrmes Knights
This site contains information on knights, warfare, entertainment and dining.
STANDARDS
This lesson plan may be used to address the academic standards listed
below. These standards are drawn from Content Knowledge: A Compendium
of Standards and Benchmarks for K-12 Education: 2nd Edition and have been
provided courtesy of theMid-continent Research for Education and Learningin
Aurora, Colorado.
Grade level:3-5
Subject area:world history
Standard:
Understands the redefinition of European society and culture from 1000 to
1300 A.D.
Benchmarks:
Understands the significance of developments in medieval English legal and
constitutional practice and their importance for modern democratic thought
and institutions.
Grade level:3-5
Subject area:world history
Standard:
Understands the redefinition of European society and culture from 1000 to
1300 A.D.
Benchmarks:
Understands the systems of feudalism and manorialism (e.g., the principles
of feudalism, manorialism, and serfdom, and their widespread use in parts of
Europe in the 11th century; how population growth and agricultural
expansion affected the legal, economic, and social position of peasant men
and women; how the lives of peasants and serfs differed; how their lives
were affected by the manors and castles).