1. Pre-Class – 12/01/09  Please find your seat according to Mr. Walker’s Directions.  If you are a Lord/Knight – sit where the seat is labeled  If you are a church official – sit where labeled  If you are a peasant, sit or stand around the peasant village  Have your notebook, a writing utensil, and your textbooks with you.  Open your textbook to page 360

2. Welcome 12/01/09 Today’s Agenda: 1) Pre-Class & Roll 2) “Life on the Manor”  Round 1  Round 2  Round 3  Report Out 3) Final Thoughts & HW Today’s Objectives: 1) To understand the life of peasants in the middle ages 2) To understand why peasants chose to live the way that they did

3. Welcome to the Manor!  In your book look at the map on page 362  If you notice, you are sitting on our lord’s manor  I am Mr. Walker our humble narrator and guide  To the west we have:  Our lord’s manor – home and principle seat of power  Our esteemed and pious Church where the clergy remain  To the east we have our lowly and oafish peasants in their village

4. In Rounds…  Today we will study the inner workings of our lord’s manor through rounds  Please listen to Mr. Walker for directions on what you must do in each round  Before you start what do you notice about the structure of the manor?

5. Round 1  It is a glorious day for hard labor!  Peasants in exchange for your homes and protection you must go out and harvest grain from the lord’s fields  ½ of the peasants go out and collect grain (poker chips)  The lord and his knights come forward to collect your share of the grain  How is this system similar to feudalism?

6. Round 1  It is a glorious day for hard labor!  Peasants in exchange for your homes and protection you must go out and harvest grain from the lord’s fields  ½ of the peasants go out and collect grain (poker chips)  The lord and his knights come forward to collect your share of the grain (leave a little for the peasants)  How is this system related to feudalism?  Lords are exchanging homes/protection for peasant loyalty and labor

7. Round 2  Support your church and beliefs today!  Our godly Bishop and his priests have determined that today you must also pay the tithe to God and his church. Give 10% of your remaining grain  Church official collect your tithe at front of room!  Notes: A tithe was a tax collected by the church by all of its believers. Peasants and the lower classes usually paid more and more often than the lords.

8. Round 3  So much taxing, will the peasants not starve?  Send 8 more peasants out to harvest at the peasant farms  Grind your grain into flour at the Mill before you eat  Send 1 peasant with all of the grain to the Mill  Mill owned by our lord, pay him to use his mill, ½ your grain. Send one knight to collect your share from the mill.  Oh happy day, some peasants are getting married!  Peasant couples who received index cards come to front of room  Marriage approval, tax, fees, “primae nocta”

9. Report Out On a piece of loose leaf paper (to turn in to me). ANSWER THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS: 1. What was life like for the peasants? Give one example supporting your answer. (5 lines total) 2. Why do you think the peasants chose to live on the manor? (3 lines) 3. Are there places or things the peasants could turn to on the Manor to make life easier? (3 lines)

10. Final Thoughts:  “Yet despite the hardships they endured, serfs accepted their lot in life as part of the Church’s teachings. They like most Christians during Medieval Times, believed that God determined a person’s place in society” (363).  This is the main reason why peasants/serfs lived as they did.  Do you think the word of the Church can justify the life they are leading? (3 lines)