Medieval Villages Author : KRISHIV PURAV CHOKSI

 Medieval Villages

Author : KRISHIV PURAV CHOKSI

Hello my name is KRISHIV nice to see you again. I am going to talk about Medievel Villages.

We recently completed a project designed as a summative experience for our unit on the Middle Ages. I love to use role-play in my classroom, so to begin the unit I assigned each class to an English village, circa 1300 AD. As we learned about the life and times of peasants and noblemen we pretended to be citizens in the towns of Norwich, Oxford, Winchester, York, and Canterbury. Through videos , readings, and activities, students uncovered medieval society by role-playing villagers like peasants, merchants, clergymen, knights, and lords and ladies. They wrote in first person describing their hopes and dreams and the ordinariness of daily life. They pretended to be monks, working diligently and in utter silence, and created quite beautiful illuminated manuscripts. We discovered that Google Translate does a wonderful job translating the Latin manuscripts of the period into understandable English.
If it would be my village.

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They had a chance to see and wear replica chain mail, hold swords, shields, a mace, and a flail. Students had the opportunity to learn proper etiquette when they met and had to address the Royal Tax Collector. We are now preparing for our annual Medieval Faire where the entire 7th grade dress up in costume ina day that includes meeting Mary, Queen of Scots, and her Royal Court and attending the afternoon faire full of fun games and activities. Each student is building a castle or catapult/trebuchet from scratch as a school-wide project. This year several students are creating castles in Minecraft and I will share their work here.

For my villages project I had three main goals in mind:

1. Let each student independently work in Minecraft to create a village building or resource while collaborative designing and developing a historically accurate village.

2. Using evidence studentsuncovered in class and on their own, create a Google slideshow detailing the role that person or resource played in Medieval society.

3. Create a screencast tour of their accomplishment and embed the linkin a MinecraftEdu infoblock placed near their design.


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