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
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Born to a relatively affluent family in 1340
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In 1357, Chaucer became a public servant to Countess
Elizabeth of Ulster, the Duke of Clarence’s wife
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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
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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