Middle Ages WebQuest 4: Social Life.

1. Complete the computer side chat online and take a screen-shot of your score.
2. Take a vocabulary quiz (after looking at the flashcards). Do not worry about spelling. Take a
screen-shot of your score and put here. **Remember you must use the words to remember
them. 100 Here does not mean a 100 later.

Questions for the Quest:

Remember the website has many more link and resources.

Manor Life:

1. What was the manor? Find a picture (paste below) and explain what each building was used for?

The manor was a Middle Ages village run by a King/Queen, Noble, or Knight.

The Castle was like the City hall of Today. The Church was there because 99% of the people in Europe were Catholic and
everyone was so religious, that peasants got sundays, and major holidays of work in the fields. Peasants grew crops near
their homes. A blacksmith was their to make the tools for farming and maybe even make the knight's armor. Harvest
wheat was taken to the mill, which the millier used to make bread out of it.

2. What were the different classes living in and around the manors? What is their roles in society? Dont forget the Clergy.
1. Peasants: They were to do the hard, labor work out in the fields, make iron, or make bread out of the harvested
wheat
2. Knights: They were in small fiefs, which means a small manor. The knight protects the peasants in order to get
money
3. Noble: They were in medium fiefs, which means a medium manor. The noble was protected also by the knight,
and the noble. Their main objective was to maintain and army for the king's protection.
4. King: They own the entire kingdom but mainly ruled over a large fief, which meant ruling the big city of a
kingdom. The king made laws for everyone in the kingdom without any say.

3. Define, these words in your own words.

Interdependent: Surviving with the help of other people
Specialized: Being good at one and only one job
*Explain how the manor was both interdependent and specialized at the same time? Use your character's life as the
examples on the manor. A manor was both interdependent and specialized at the same time because while knights
protected the peasants for money from the noble and king, the knight depended on the peasants. The knight depended on
the peasants because the knight wasnt taught how to farm, so the knight gets the food from the peasants.

4. Peasants and Nobles: There were many jobs/crafts for craftsman/artisans in the towns. Fill in the chart below using the
sites provided. Look around at the jobs. Dont just pick four. What ones are interesting to you?
Knights: Find out how you become a Knight? What are the step to knighthood? What is required at each step? You
became a knight by first having the right background, which means being in a wealthy, noble family. Then you would be
taught at home to have good manners, and learning the basics of knighthood. Then youll be taken from your parents, at
the age of seven, to become a page. By the age of 14, you would become a squire. If you survived, at the age of 21, you
would become a knight.

http://www.ancientfortresses.org/medieval-occupations.htm
http://www.badgersden.com/MT/MdvlOccupation.htm
Title What did they do?

Page Wait at the Table, assist in the lord's clothing, servants to the ladies in the castle that they were
in.

Squire Learned Chivalry, the rules of Hereldry, horsemanship, and practice of weapons.

Barber Did all of your personal

5. Did the manor need to trade with other manors? Why or why Not? How would this impact trade all over
Europe? A manor didnt need to trade with other manors because all the manor needed was what was
inside it. This would make trade not relevant all throughout Europe.

he manor could rely on itself and be

6. What does the statement the manor was self sufficient mean? T
totally fine.

Daily Life: In this section you will learn about your daily life. Copy and paste the chart from
the D.A. and put it in below number 7 and fill it in.

7. In the chart below you need to find out three details for each topic about the life of your
Character: ie Knight, Or a Noble, etc.. In the blank topic boxes you can pick other topics to
explore that we mentioned in class: Education, Punishment, etc.... If you need help finding
information on a topic, please see Mr. H for help. I will do the best I can.

Topic Detail one Detail two Detail three

Food Peasants normally The Rich also got to In the later middle
just ate barley while eat lots of meat ages, new foods that
 The Rich got to eat because of the right were made in China
wheat and have of hunting and India were
spices coming over to
Europe

Clothes The clothes were
different from Early
Middle Ages to Late
Middle Ages.
The Nobles had more
than one outfit but
the peasants only
had one
Because Silk was so
expensive from
China, people made
their clothes from the
wool of the sheep

Hygiene and or Hospitals started to One way that they If a patient wasnt
medical care show up around the thought would get a getting better, the
13th century disease out of church would pray
someone was to get for that person
rid of the Bad
Blood

Education The Catholic Church Medieval Students Students would use a

was the source of would sit next to bone or ivory stylus
education for each other during on stone tablets to
students. class. write notes

Complete after #8 The first line of
Your home defence is a castle
wall and a moat
One defence was a
murder hole. A
murder hole is a
place where enemies
got into a castle,
weapons could be
dropped on them.
All soliders that were
in castle towers had
bows and shot
arrows on top of
notches or through
arrow slits

8. About your HOME: Watch the edpuzzle below associated with your social class:
Peasant Edpuzzle
Castle Edpuzzle
Add three new ideas you took away from the Edpuzzle and place in your chart above.

9. Entertainment is important for everyone in the middle ages: look deeper into the idea of Medieval Tournaments. Tell
me five things you learned about the edpuzzle?
1. The winning knight of a tourny could take the losing knights sword, lance, and horse
2. They had a skills competition
3.
**Watch this Quest 4 tournament (Knights Tournaments in the Middle Ages)

10. How has life changed from the time Rome ruled?
Life has changed alot from Rome
Blog: This blog will have several parts:
1. Image of the chart you completed on #7 above
2. Three other images (from the middle ages--art, see example) that show parts of
your life or about manor life. These image have to have captions explaining what
we are seeing in the images.
3. A short description of your daily life that uses the starter noted below.
a. One to two paragraphs that walk people through your daily life.
4. A podcast done in a small group. Details to follow later.

Blog Starter for a NOBLE OR KNIGHT (peasants have to change this starter): In the day of our
lord Feb 7, 1007. Days just seem to grind on. It is now winter and some snow has fallen. That
is fine as we have a warm fire in the Castle. I have plenty of wood, remember the laws give me
rights to everything and everyone on my manor. Well let me explain a day in my life...... I
wake at .....

Put a link to your live blog here:

Podcast, You will be assigned a group to work with for this. Directions to be provided in class.