Publisher's Synopsis
For the less academic pupil, this series provides a resource for the delivery of the curriculum in a colourful way, enticing children to enjoy learning. This book covers the Middle Ages for KS3 History.
High-quality full colour resource organised into topics with key words pinpointed, activities throughout and supported by three accompanying workbooks.
Contents:
Welcome to the Middle Ages!
The Norman Conquest
1 Who were the Normans?
2 Where did they come from?
3 The fight for the English throne
4 Rivals do battle
5 Saxon soldiers
6 Norman soldiers
7 The story told by the Bayeux Tapestry
8 Two accounts of the Battle of Hastings
9 How did Harold die?
10 Taking control
11 The Feudal System
12 The Domesday Book
13 Castles
14 Stone castles
15 Castles under attack
Medieval Society
16 How a Norman person was named
17 Norman food
18 Norman clothes
19 Norman games and pastimes
20 Norman justice
21 The poor
22 The rich
23 Town life
24 Country life
25 Convents and monasteries
26 Holy men
27 Holy women
28 Women in medieval times
29 Getting married
30 Disease and death
31 The Black Death
32 Knights and Crusades
Ireland and the Normans
33 Ireland before the Normans
34 Dermot MacMurrough
35 Dermot and the Normans
36 A wedding in Waterford
37 Why the Normans came
38 The Normans invade
39 The conquest of Ulster
40 De Courcy: the Norman who wanted to be king
41 De Courcy's legacy lives on
42 Carrickfergus Castle
43 Carrickfergus Castle - the siege
44 Carrickfergus Castle - change over time
45 Norman soldiers and Irish soldiers
46 The Greencastle skeleton
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