Thursday! Journal Prompt: Make a list of things you know about the middle ages (aka medieval period) if you can’t think of ANYTHING, make a list of things you’d like to know! If you haven’t turned your storyboard assignments in do so RIGHT NOW Plagues and Knights and Catholicism, Oh My! The Middle Ages! 1066-1485 - 1066 - The Norman Conquest. William the Conqueror is crowned King William I of England on Christmas Day. - 1096 - Probable founding date of Oxford University - 1215 - The barons rebel against King John and force him to agree to Magna Carta. - 1337-1453 - Hundred Years War between England and France. - 1348 - Black death comes to Britain - 1387 - Geoffrey Chaucer begins the Canterbury Tales. What they wore Legit Knights Medieval Art Medicine? Barely. Geoffrey Chaucer - Born to a relatively affluent family in 1340 - In 1357, Chaucer became a public servant to Countess Elizabeth of Ulster, the Duke of Clarence’s wife - As a teenager he joined the hundred years war and was captured for ransom, but his royal connection came through and the king bailed him out - Unsure exactly when he wrote Canterbury Tales but it is definitely his most famed work. How should we read? Listen to an audiobook Take turns reading aloud Read in small groups Read independently
